[Soc-2013-dev] Weekly report #6 UI Replay

[David Jeske]

Sounds awesome!

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Vincent Akkermans <vincent at ack-err.net>wrote:

> The operator defaults that can be set on a button's right click seemed
> like a good idea, but I've found it to be problematic. Because it is only
> available for toolbar buttons it isn't available for all operators. Perhaps
> an extra button "make default" in the F6 panel is more natural.
>

I'd really like to see you try the ".. tail button" idea I suggested.
Create a "..." button-tail on specific  tool buttons which benefit from
popping up the parameter config. It would look like this for the "screw"
tool".  (you have to choose whether a specific button gets a visible
shortcut or the "..." tail)

[image: Inline image 1]

That tail-button means "run the screw tool and show the F6 operator panel
right now to configure it". This is more discoverable and simpler to use
than a right-click-defaults option, since (a) you can immediately cause the
action and bring up the operator-config, (b) it makes operator config more
obvious and discoverable.

I think rather than a "make default" button on the operator panel, it might
be more capable to add a checkbox "use as default settings". This way you
can per-operator decide whether you'd prefer to just keep using the last
settings, or stop using the last settings.

I also think the subpanel "..." tail should be an icon-button, with some
experiements on what it could look like. I know you are not an icon artist,
so we can get someone else involved here. However, as a stand-in, I think
vertically centered ellipsis would look better and be consistent with my
suggestion above. More like this:

[image: Inline image 2]
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