User Interface Module Meeting 2024-05-07T15:00:00Z
Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last meeting was April 23rd, next meeting on May 21st
Attendees
- Nika Kutsniashvili
- Guishe
- Falk David
- Pablo Vazquez
- Hans Goudey
- Harley Acheson
Merged Since Last Meeting
- UI: Changes to Zoom Menus #121044
- Fix #121108: Improved Poll Function for IMAGE_OT_clipboard_paste #121142
- Fix #120958: Redundant Operations Tips in Status Bar when Transforming #120974
- UI: Add missing icon to Move to Bone Collection
- UI: Rename New Bone Collection confirmation button
- UI: Add Modifiers submenu to 3D view header #121286
- UI: Custom Text and Confirmation Button Text for Props Confirm #121287
- UI: Adjust gesture operator descriptions to avoid second person #121309
- UI: Tweaks to Object > Modifier menu #121344
- UI: Different Warning for Revert if Unsaved Images #121288
- UI: Optional Complex Layout for Workspace Status #120595
- UI: Status Bar While Menus Are Open #121502
Review
- Nodes: specify header colors for node groups #121385
- Pablo has a plan to expose just the applicable colors/categories
- UI: Automatic text contrast for overlays via outline #121383
- Harley will approve and will further refine later if needed.
- UI: Screen Area Docking #104665
- Lets try with less fussiness, docking targets at 50%. Can give better feedback. Next sample might involve dragging of any part of header. How closed areas get replaced could have better feedback.
- Status Bar Changes
- UI: Edit Mesh Knife Status Display #121506
- Approved, will be merged.
- UI: Edit Mesh Inset Faces Status Display #121504
- Approved, will be merged.
- WIP: UI: Status Bar Keymaps When Idle #121059
- Will get some testing. Might break out the showing of status for edges and action zones as they are nice on their own.
- UI: IDSearch Image Thumbnail Tooltips #118945
- Hans will see if this can be done is a less ugly way.
- UI: Color Tooltips #117815
- Hans will review
- UI: Reorganize ‘Select’ menus in 3D Viewport #121521
- We love this. Disagreement on the change of “All” → “Deselect”
Design & Discussion
- We all agree on removal of automatic description terminal period. They will need to be added back in manually where needed. None of us are too worried if we have a release that has these inconsistent.
- UI: Do not store temp window state on .blend file #121119
- We like this idea. Harley will add notes to the ticket describing his difficulty trying to do this.
- Add Generic Icons to the Font Stack? #121433
- This is worth thinking about. Icons used for Sidebar titles looks good. Harley will make a PR.
- Would need this too: WIP: Unicode Character Text Entry #116679
- Simplified SVG Icon Implementation #121434
- We like this idea. Harley will need to talk to Ray and Brecht and make a proof of concept.
- WIP: UI: Bidirectional Text and Complex Shaping #104662
- Planning for this as “Experimental” feature that uses shaping for all text output for testing during 4.3. Hopefully then for 4.4 we could have as user option to enable for RTL only.
- UI Experiment: Extended Screen Edge Movement #120998
- Pablo will test to see if he also like the edge highlight. Consideration on how this works with editor highlighting in #116684 which Pablo still wants.
- UI: Experiment - Editor Edge Highlighting #116684
- Harley will update this and we can take another look. Harley concerned some users could complain of loss of header highlight, Pablo not concerned.
- We like the idea of adding Camera guides to Overlays. Not sure about passpartout. Adding presets for overlays would probably be awesome. We should probably fix the current inconsistencies with overlay toggling.