[Bf-taskforce25] Some thoughts I need to share

[Nathan Vegdahl]

>> Some people claim the vertical pannels (T & N keys) are not well
>> space-optimized when you just need Transform options and everything else
>> collapsed for example, because it's vertical designed. In this case you
>> just have a most empty grey pannel that could be better used.
>
> I think quite a few people are unhappy about this, will be reviewed &
> worked on further. Floating panels may come back, and perhaps the
> transform properties also belong in the smaller T-key panel.

I actually wonder if it would make sense to just put transform
properties in the buttons window?  For objects that is essentially
already the case (which is redundant with the n-panel).  Dunno if
there's a good way to integrate them into the buttons window for the
general case, though.  But it's just a thought.

If we can do that, though, then we could eliminate the n-panel
altogether, and just have the tools panel.  Seems like it might be
cleaner, if it's feasible to do.

--Nathan V

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Brecht Van Lommel<brecht at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:09 +0200, Mickaël Guédon wrote:
>> There is a thread on the BlenderClan forum about Blender 2.50, and
>> people react to good and bad things about it. So I'm here to share some
>> of their most interesting thoughts with you.
>>
>> We do think there is a problem about the Materials pannel in Object Data
>> context.
>> Well why this pannel is not in the Material context if it's all about
>> Materials ?
>
> In latest svn, the material panel is no longer in the object data
> context.
>
>> About Texture mapping pannel placed in the Texture context, we think
>> this is not a very good idea since you cannot see the preview of what
>> you are doing about mapping (which can be viewed in the Material
>> context, but you have to click one more time and that's time consuming).
>
> Solved by the mixed texture/material preview I think.
>
>> Some people claim the vertical pannels (T & N keys) are not well
>> space-optimized when you just need Transform options and everything else
>> collapsed for example, because it's vertical designed. In this case you
>> just have a most empty grey pannel that could be better used.
>
> I think quite a few people are unhappy about this, will be reviewed &
> worked on further. Floating panels may come back, and perhaps the
> transform properties also belong in the smaller T-key panel.
>
> Brecht.
>
>
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