[Bf-scripts-dev] a new start? -- Matt's proposal for menu naming convention

[Matt Ebb]

On 7 Feb 2005, at 5:11 AM, Willian Padovani Germano wrote:

> We should add new menus anyway.
> What do you guys think about the convention suggested by Matt?  Any 
> other suggestion?  Guess I need more examples, like how would "Import" 
> and "Export" be, Matt?

I guess I'd personally say something like InfoImport or InfoExport (for 
SPACEINFO) ?

> One thing is that if there's such a change in Blender that windows get 
> renamed or removed, menus change place, etc., this convention is too 
> integrated and would become outdated.  Maybe having shorter names like 
> FaceselSelect would be better.

Well, I think there's more chance of running into problems with menus 
overlapping than there is of problems with windows being renamed or 
removed. If something is renamed and we want to rename the script group 
name, there's always the (yeah, messy) option of giving it a new name, 
and still accepting the old one. My concern is that while FaceselSelect 
would work, you then may run into problems if you then try to extend it 
to, say, EditModeSelect  which would be tricky since the select menu 
for editmode differs from object type to Object type...

On the other hand, maybe we don't actually need a strict naming 
convention, as long as each time a new name is added, it's sufficiently 
unique to not cause conflicts with other menus in Blender...

> Opinions?  It  would be good to have new menus, like Render, Facesel, 
> etc. before the next release.  Also a better place for the themes 
> scripts.

And an 'Add->Scripts->' or something like that for scripts that 
generate geometry! As for the themes, what do you think about somehow 
combining it in the current themes chooser menu? Or just be 
controversial and replace the old theme saving etc with a Python 
version? By the way, I've had some problems with the Python render 
presets menu in tuhopuu, I need to get around to mailing about. Will do 
it on bf-python.

Cheers

Matt
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