User Interface Module Meeting 2024-05-21T15:00:00Z
Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last meeting was May 7th, next meeting on June 4th.
Attendees
- Nika Kutsniashvili
- Pablo Vazquez
- Hans Goudey
- Harley Acheson
Merged Since Last Meeting
- UI: Edit Mesh Inset Faces Status Display #121504
- UI: Edit Mesh Knife Status Display #121506
- Fix: Allow panel drag-collapse in popovers and fix but event handling #121594
- Fix #121280: Clamp layout panel sub-background color to block region #121534
- UI: Knife Tool Missing Iface for Pan View #121581
- UI: Edge Slide Status Display #121585
- UI: Reorganize ‘Select’ menus in all editors #121521 & #121337
- UI: Sequencer Overlays popover layout improvements #121591
- UI: Add eyedropper button to camera focus distance #121486
- UI: Fix AutoKeying Text #121811
- https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117815
- UI: Remove BLF_draw_default_shadowed #121676
- Fix #121660: Auto-keyframe icon Overlapping when Navigation Controls are off #121775
- Fix #121765: Default Separator for Pie Menu Should be UI_BTYPE_SEPR #121839
- UI: Mesh Bevel Status Display #121796
- UI: Loop Cut Status Display #121801
- Fix #121848: Hide area status text cancelling loopcut #121849
- BLF: String length to cursor position, not INT_MAX #121966
Review
- UI: Use collection color tag to draw arrow in outliner #121109
- We don’t like changing the button color. We talked further of other changes. Make the lines wider when the collection has a color?
- UI: Toggle Camera Guides in Viewport Overlays #121923
- Should only be visible while in camera view. Passpartout can be added too.
- UI: Aligned Mouse Icons and Four New Ones #121898
- We don’t need the extras yet. Just update the existing event mouse icons
- UI: Screen Area Docking #104665
- Now docking only at fixed area, so cannot drag to any target size.
Design & Discussion
- Discussion of Extensions project
- Would be nice if Ctrl-F started search in Outliner
- Implement pan and zoom gizmos for node editors #121941
- We like these for manipulating the node view, but not adding another set for backgrounds
- Add “Pie Menu on Drag” support to Region Toggle Pie #116207
- Nika will update PR, Pablo likes. Discussion of keeping “N” v “T”.
- Okay to make the default width of Sidebar panel wider.
- Okay for text editor “not found” message change
- UI Experiment: SVG Icons Proof of Concept #121718
- Assume this is moving forward with 4.3 target.
- UI Experiment: Material Symbols font #121603
- too large. not for now. #121718 could make adding new icons easier.
- UI Experiment: Extended Screen Edge Movement #120998
- UI: Experiment - Editor Edge Highlighting #116684
- WIP: UI: Status Bar Keymaps When Idle #121059