[Bf-funboard] File Browser proposal

[William Reynish]

Hi Matt. I'm sorry if I didn't credit your great work.
I'm a true fan of all your ideas, and I love browsing
the feature requests reading all your questions. You
raise some very interesting questions there! I have
updated my proposal with a link to your version, and
reviewed my writing to not take any credtit from you.
This was not intentional.

I only did this proposal to get the ball rolling
again. I love your file browser ideas to death, and I
feel its time to agree on something so we can get it
done.

About the file browser, I will review it today. You
mention the OSX file browser - I'll just check it on
the Mac. I forgot to implement your "new directory"
button too. Also, I will look at some ideas and
corrections posted by a few people and see if I can
come up with something.


Regards, William

 --- Matt Ebb <matt@mke3.net> wrote: > You may like to
include a link to the original
> writeup here:
>    
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/? 
> func=detail&atid=207&aid=363&group_id=32
> so people can see the original rationale for that
> rather rough mockup  
> and also since it's a bit disturbing to see the
> stuff I wrote copied  
> and re-worded with "I propose" preceding it.
> 
> The main difference between your image and mine is
> that mine resembles  
> the Mac OS X 10.3 file selector and yours, the
> Windows one. If we're  
> going to be making something similar to an existing
> one, it would be  
> best to break down and analyse the difference
> between existing file  
> selectors on their own merits in order to decide. I
> personally find the  
> 10.3 file selector less cluttered, and easy to to
> see buttons at a  
> glance through positioning. The placement of the
> 'action' and cancel  
> buttons side by side, rather than above and below,
> makes it easier to  
> hit one of them quickly and accurately, and the
> consistency of the  
> cancel button always on the left makes it even
> faster, since you don't  
> even have to read the text - you know what button is
> which, by the  
> position and can hit it at a glance. The Windows one
> isn't quite so  
> fast because you have to be very careful to get the
> Y-co-ordinates of  
> your click right in order to hit the correct button.
> Like in 10.3, I  
> also did neglect a field to type in the filename for
> the open dialog,  
> as it's only necessary when saving.
> 
> One more thing, all the icons and graphics are just
> placeholders of  
> course, but it's important keep the semiotic
> meanings of icons intact  
> by using the blender file icon to represent .blend
> files, *not* the  
> Blender application icon.

Good point! I'll change that.



> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On 1 Dec 2003, at 1:30 AM, William Reynish wrote:
> 
> > I have included a new section in the UI proposal
> about
> > how to change the file browser. Please check it
> out:
> >
> > Here is an image:
> > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/fileselector.jpg
> >
> > This is a link to the File Browser proposal:
> > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/filebrowser.htm
> >
> > Comments please!
> >
> >
> > I have also updated the texturebuttons proposal. I
> had
> > to have a max eight texture channel system because
> it
> > is hardcoded in Blender. See it here:
> > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/texturebuttons.htm
> >
> > -William Reynish (monkeyboi)
> >
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