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[Matt Ebb]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Brecht Van Lommel <brecht at blender.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>> There's also myriads of keys you keep forgetting, and the menus then
>> show again whether it was "Make Proxy" or "Make Parent without inverse"
>> or one of the other plenty "P" tools :). With customizable maps you
>> will need this only more.
>
> For the cases where it's potentially not clear what happened, perhaps
> we should not ask the user for confirmation in advance but give better
> feedback afterwards. For example some sort of non-blocking popup after
> the tool finished as shown here:
>
> http://humanized.com/weblog/2006/09/11/monolog_boxes_and_transparent_messages/

Yep, brecht is right on the money here. Rather than adding more
clicks, more annoying blocking menus in the way of working, it's much
better to have a notification system to notify of what happened,
rather than abusing a confirmation message for this. It's not the job
of confirmation prompts to remind you of what tool you are using. This
notification info can get represented in a header message in a console
window like this for example:
http://mke3.net/blender/interface/interaction/statusline_error.png

cheers

Matt