[Bf-interface] Tool and properties panel idea.

[Julian Eisel]

Hey there,

IMHO it's okay to add a user preference option for this. The topic
comes up every now and then.

We've also been discussing it here: https://developer.blender.org/T45346

Cheers,
- Julian -

On 25 February 2016 at 08:05, Jeffrey <italic.rendezvous at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is somewhat what tabs are supposed to alleviate, but it only works
> if addon authors distribute their addons into the proper tabs. For
> example, I had a lot of small, quick tools in a dedicated tab, but I
> found my workflow was more task-oriented, not tool-frequency-oriented,
> so I split them into their respective tabs. Sometimes addon authors
> forget to set a tab, so you could do this one yourself to free up space.
>
> Take this one, for example:
> https://github.com/meta-androcto/blenderpython/blob/master/scripts/addons_extern/Container.py
>
> In the third class, ContainerPanel, there is a bl_category entry to tell
> blender which tab to put it in. In this case, it's in Relations, which
> is shared with a couple of my other addons. If you wanted, you could
> change it to something like Modeling, or Groups, or what have you.
> bl_category is only specified in the class that draws the panel, so it
> doesn't need to be in every operator in your script.
>
> On 02/24/2016 06:19 PM, Stephen Hamacek wrote:
>> Just a small idea I've had for a while I thought I'd share:
>>
>> With so many addons in my installation I frequently have lots of scrolling to do in my tool, properties and settings panels. I am aware of, and often use the option of CTRL-clicking a panel's name to simultaneously open it and close the other panels, which does help keep things a little saner visually.
>>
>> So I was wondering if it's feasible to make this behaviour default (I guess as a user preference) so that clicking a panel name opens it and closes the others, and CTRL-clicking (or SHIFT-clicking or whatever) is like regular-clicking now, for opening/closing multiple panels freely.
>>
>> It would just be one less keystroke x1000 for me daily, and I think others would like this option too. (Forgive me if there's already a way to do this that I don't know of...)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stephen Hamacek
>> (Hammers)
>>
>>
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