2024-08-27 User Interface Meeting

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User Interface Module Meeting 2024-08-27T15:00:00Z

Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last meeting was August 13th, next meeting on September 10th

Attendees

  • Pablo Vazquez
  • Harley Acheson

Merged Since Last Meeting

High Severity Bugs

Module Roadmap

  • Icons next step is still Tool icons (waiting for review)
  • Docking is still well received. Any testing by Studio or Admins?
    • Pablo likes it, especially default snap to 50%. Will talk again to Julian to see next steps.
  • Next steps for Tabbed Area project

Review

Design

Discussion

  • UI Experiment: Detailed Large File & Folder Icons #126760
    • Platforms with plain and flat icons still have more detailed file system items
    • No big interest in this. But try folder without any gradients.
  • UI Experiment: Operator Preferences on Status Bar #126477
    • Moves some preferences to where they are used.
    • This particular example is (known) contrived, but the idea seems to make sense. We have other examples of where we could move preferences to where they are used, like color picker type. Would fit with Julian’s thoughts on separate storage of “last used” values. Could apply to window sizes and locations, operator settings, and some preference items that would not otherwise be exposed.
  • WIP: UI: Custom Area Idle status #126663
    • Could work, but creates some inconsistencies with how the default idle state works - showing only keymaps that match the current modifier state. Not even sure how important it is to show some obvious things.
  • UI Test: Allow Changing Editor Outline Width #126334
    • Harley likes it wider, would work well with #116684 & #120998
    • A useful tool. Pablo sees some benefit in larger gaps, but wonders why we don’t show window edge gutters. Right-click area options could be nice at edges.
  • We noticed that symlinked folders are using incorrect link icon.
  • Status bar should at least clear while entering text or numbers in inputs. Better could show some options while doing so.
  • We discussed Pablo’s ideas for a revamped ID selector.
  • Discussions on the use of color in the interface.
  • Save As operation overwrite warning state not communicated well.
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On the work board, there is #109319 - UI: Select Through Option - blender - Blender Projects Under “Planning and Design” section.

It’s been probably over 5 years (EDIT: nearly 6 years) since this has been heavily requested by huge amount of users. Any chance of finally taking it from the 5 year long planning phase and pushing it forward, since 5.0 will be a major release?

This single change will have more effect in terms of time saved and productivity increased than 30-40 small UI/UX tweaks these UI meeting lists are full of, while not taking 30-40 times more resources to implement (there are several existing implementations already done on top of that).

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