[Bf-committers] "Blender, an appraisal from a first time user"

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Thanks for the mockup. More people think that adding more info to the splash is helpful, but it clutters our UI more too. Next step is bigger and flashing notifiers to beg for attention?

I believe we can do much better. For example - on first install the Splash can be nearly empty with a clear choice for "Copy my previous settings" and a new "Configure" that leads you to two or three steps to set the environment and defaults. In that flow can also include templates for quick out-of-the-box satisfaction.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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> On 5 Jan, 2016, at 19:26, Xavier Thomas <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wanted to make a proof of concept of the "task selection in the splash
> screen", but figured out it would be simpler to quickly cod it and take a
> screenshot of it.
> 
> So here it is:
> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/97310
> 
> Simple diff against the "space_userpref.py" of 2.76 is attached. I am
> currently on a windows machine without a Blender dev environment setup or
> git to do a proper git diff, but if this look like an acceptable solution
> to you I can open a proper task on phabricator.
> 
> 
> 2016-01-05 15:15 GMT-02:00 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Mikhail Rachinskiy
>> <wellmaderice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> …it would prompt the user to save the file (as with File -> Save As)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If there will be a tooltip explaining whats going on I think beginners
>> wont
>>> be confused, at least this is some kind of visual feedback.
>> 
>> For now the tip is improved.
>> https://developer.blender.org/rB80a76030aec3a8d62a92a643c4d85048a868e397
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