[Bf-taskforce25] Blender spring cleaning

[joe]

Ah I use the render window placement all the time, I'd be sad to see
it go.  I do agree about the composite buttons though. . .I think we
should either make Do Composite be an alias to the node editor's
button, or (my preference) remove the node editor button alltogether.

Joe

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:48 AM, William Reynish <william at reynish.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Now that spring time is upon us, it's a nice opportunity to do some
> cleaning up in Blenders functionality. Over the years, some features
> have been superseded by others 2.5 is a good release to make some
> clean cuts, now that forward compatibility is out of the window.
>
> Certain features have been replaced by better alternatives, but until
> now the older implementations haven't been removed yet. We have things
> like 'Old Track' and 'CurveFollow' controls which have been replaced
> by more flexible constraints instead. Keeping these old features is
> really just adding bloat, and confusing to the end user.
>
> The reason they've been kept until now has been to ensure a transition
> period, but really these features have been redundant since what,
> 2003? It's about time we have the guts to just go ahead and remove
> them. Yes, in the short term it's annoying to have features disappear,
> but in the long run we'll have a better, cleaner Blender.
>
> When talking about outdated features, I'm specifically thinking about
> these for now:
>
> Curve animation (superseded by the Follow Path constraint)
> Old Track (superseded by the Track To constraint)
> Render windows placement controls (useless really, and irrelevant as
> Blender renders using the image editor by default)
> 'Do Composite' (There are at least three ways of turning on and off
> the compositor. There's the 'Use Nodes' button in the compositor
> itself, you can make a direct link from the RenderLayer to the
> Composite node, and you can use the 'Do Composite' button. There's too
> much redundancy here.)
>
> These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head, but I'm
> sure there are probably more? Anyone else have suggestions for
> features in need of a little cleaning out?
>
> It's a nice time to fight back against bloat and feature creep.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -William
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