[Bf-taskforce25] readability improvements of properties window

[Jon Sandström]

Then you'll have the ability to pin the tabs you use most frequently 
(similar to current), while at the same time enjoying the benefit of 
automatical closing of the ones you only open to tweak some values.

The "UI dance" could be a downside, however if you take advantage of 
this system there should be no more than one tab closing for every one 
opened. this means the UI will at least not dance flamenco, and the 
dance will only be performed when opening a tab below the currently 
opened tab (the other scenario will be a very smooth transition).
There are also ways one could try to minimize the "dancing", but 
personally I would like to try this out before changing to much 
interface behaviour.

for me it is quite a problem that blender displays so much information 
at once. every time i want to find some settings I have to scroll, 
search and try to remember where the desired settings are located. Most 
often/always I know where to find it, but even then it can be time 
consuming to navigate to them (time consuming as in "a few seconds", but 
these seconds  soon stacks to minutes). This is the problem i am trying 
to adress and I think this is an optimisation that could fit everyone as 
the old behaviour is embedded within the new one.

of course, I have no problem with this being an alternative, however i 
think it should be tried in action before deciding to use it as default 
or not, and if all goes well there is no reason to have it as an 
alternative, as both workflows should be simultaneously useable in the 
interface.

Dalai Felinto skrev:
> Too much UI dance for every tab opening is way too distracting IMHO.
> Leave it as an alternative (not the default) can work though.
>
> Dalai Felinto
> http://blenderecia.orgfree.com
>
> On 17/09/2009, at 19:14, Jon Sandström <sjon at student.chalmers.se>
> wrote:
>