[Bf-taskforce25] Button Layouts

[Dalai Felinto]

Hey William.

I know that the color slider is not the focus of what you were trying
to show here.
But I couldn't help noticing them, for I want to share some thoughts on that.

While a big RED slider is easy to read/understand its use, it lacks
some nice functionalities we find in other softwares.
For example, the GIMP color slider lets you know before-hand how the
color will look like after sliding for both left or right direction:
http://blenderecia.orgfree.com/blender/gimp_colorslider.jpg

As a mid-term solution I thought we could have that "gimp" mode while
dragging/editing (maybe even without the label (eg "R:200"):
http://blenderecia.orgfree.com/blender/enabler_panels.jpg

my 2 cents,
Dalai

2009/4/30 Brian Staub <brian.staub at yahoo.com>:
> heya William.
>
> you obviously spend a lot of time thinking this stuff through, because i
> never have anything to critique in your designs.
> these are beautiful, sir!
>
> cheers
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: William Reynish <william at reynish.com>
> To: The Blender 2.5 TaskForce <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:43:11 AM
> Subject: [Bf-taskforce25] Button Layouts
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've already posted some of these mockups on IRC and talked to people
> about them, but I thought I'd post them here for consistencies sake. I
> realize some of these things are perhaps better suited to be added or
> tweaked later, after things start working, but I'll post it now while
> I remember.
>
> First is the concept of 'enabler panels' (to give it a name), which is
> a solution to all the 'Enable' buttons at the top of panels now in
> 2.5. The idea is to put the check boxes inside the panel header
> itself, which makes the functionality clearer (no more ambiguous
> 'enable' label), less redundant (for efficient use of space), and also
> more useful, because you can enable or disable panels even when they
> are collapsed. This is useful for panels like Ambient Occlusion,
> Stars, Mist, Transparency, Reflections, Subsurface Scattering, Stamp,
> etc, everywhere an 'enable' button makes sense.
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/enabler_panels.png
>
> Here's a version with bigger header text to better distinguish headers
> from content:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/enabler_panels2.png
>
>
> Next are solutions for dynamic content, things in the Properties
> Editor that can change, be added or deleted by the user (shapes,
> vertex groups, vertex colors, UV layers, texture layers etc). In 2.4x
> this is handled in quite an inconsistent and clumsy way, so I've been
> thinking of ways to improve that, using a consistent list-UI for it:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/meshproperties.png
>
> The advantage is that you get an nicer overview of the data that's
> associated with your objects, and a faster way of scanning through,
> deleting and using the items in those lists. In cases where the user
> has huge amount of items in a list, they can be resized, or even
> scanned through the outliner (as is possible currently )
> As Ton mentioned, eventually one could eventually have multiple views
> for these lists with image previews for materials, shapes and the like.
>
>
> Lastly, I saw Brecht has already started doing modifiers for 2.5 -
> already looks really neat, even though much is missing. Made me think
> about ways of improving the modifiers slightly, from their 2.4x
> versions:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/modifiers.png
>
> I included the wonderful modifier icons from jendrzych to help quickly
> identify each type of modifier. Secondly, as 2.5 will be able to
> handle drag and drop, there's no need for the clumsy old arrows for
> moving items up or down - dragging the handle would be both easier and
> faster, since you could then move items many steps up or down at a
> time. Also, modifiers don't really belong in the ObData context,
> because the modifier data is stored with the object, not the
> associated ObData.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -William
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