User Interface Module Meeting 2024-10-08T15:00:00Z
Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last meeting was September 24th, next meeting during the Blender Conference.
Attendees
- Julian Eisel
- Pablo Vazquez
- Jonas Holzman
- Nika Kutsniashvili
- Harley Acheson
Merged Since Last Meeting
- UI: Color Picker layout rework #125675
- UI: Area Docking as Regular Feature, Not Experimental #127810
- UI: Automatically Add Some Tooltip Description Periods #128097
- UI: Editor Edge Highlighting #116684
- UI: Edge Highlighting While Resizing Editors #120998
- Fix #128406: Editor Highlight Edge Roundness #128453
- UI: Fix Editor Highlight Top Bar #128394
- UI: Changes to Docking Mouse Cursors #128396
- Fix #127825: Do Not Clear Recent Item If File Not Found #127882
- Fix #121075: Outliner Ctrl-clicking to toggle selection has speed limit #121130
- Fix #128633: Image gizmo missing update for the Properties Editor #128688
High Severity Bugs
- Regression: Paint curves are missing in the list #128138
- Regression: Tool icon in toolbar shrinked down #128649
- Blender Crash when dragging window from one Screen to another #128712
Module Roadmap
- Tabs - there are some mockups.
- A start. We’ll make some full-window mockups next to get a better sense of how the different areas look against each other.
Review
- UI: Prevent draggable centered popups from resetting to center. #128522
- Interesting. Will evaluate, test, and review.
- Cleanup: Add missing hyphen to “Addon Tags” label #127822
- Approved.
- Fix #128112: Improve Display of Drag Overlays #128623
- Approved by Clément. Nice to see this improved.
- Refactor: Allow any icons for RNA_def_property_ui_icon #127780
- Not discussed
Design & Discussion
- Discussion on where animation controls could go, separate from current Timeline header. In other editor headers or new footers perhaps. But not in a full-width status bar. Needs more thought.
- The use of the Blender logo icon in Preferences / Add-ons looks incorrect.
- Pablo has a PR to add quick access to add-on folder. #128474
- Conference
- We’ll do something like a “Blender This Year”, mostly highlighting what we’ve done over the past year (4.0 to present).
- Some discussion of Expose lock_rotation in the view menu #122185 and Pablo approves.
- UI Experiment: Operator Preferences on Status Bar #126477
- Now a more useful demonstration, even doing more than we’d want.
- We still like the idea. Julian not liking the inconsistency that the extra items are preferences that change for next invocation. Will try separating these from the rest with a vertical rule and "Preferences: "
- WIP: UI: Use SVG Icons for Tools #125378
- Campbell wants design changes, will bring up in Core meetings
- WIP: UI: Bidirectional Text and Complex Shaping #104662
- Working okay, minimally invasive, but would require RTL dev support
- Not discussed
- WIP: UI: Icons in ID Search List (Alt) #127086
- We discussed ways of doing this without passing *ID, but still allowing the user count.
- WIP: UI: SVG Icons as Mouse Cursors #127326
- working now as a proof of concept, rendering 1 & 32 bpp
- Harley’s won’t spend much time on this, but next step is adding more icons and removing the default cursor as the test one shown.
- WIP: UI: Preferences Search #119072
- Hans made many changes
- Not discussed much as Hans is away.