User Interface Module Meeting 2025-01-28T16:00:00Z
Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last regular meeting was January 14th, next meeting on February 11
Attendees
- Julian Eisel
- Hans Goudey
- Pablo Vazquez
- Harley Acheson
Merged Since Last Meeting
- Fix #129579: Improvement to Changed Brush Display #131119
- Fix #79977: Light Theme NumSlider InnerSel #131338
- UI: Improve Status Bar Display for Mesh Point Normals #131586
- Fix #79388: Increase User Scale Hard Min to 0.5 #131688
- Fix #127231: More Space for Frame Column in Shape Key List #131887
- Fix #130171: Stop Panel Animation When Removing Regions #131998
- UI: Upgrade Inter font 4.0 → 4.1 #132508
- macOS: Use
NSColorSamplerfor picking colors outside of the Blender window #131593 - Fix #99187: Increased Contrast of Transform Cursors #132671
- Fix #49117: Larger Alternative for Frame Cursor #132767
- Fix #72554: X-Ray Description “Alpha” → “Opacity” #133025
- UI: Remove RNA Defaults from Negative Boolean Properties #133076
- UI: Color Picker Status Bar Mac Information #133120
- UI: Support canceling Eyedropper color picking operations #133124
- Fix: inconsistent UI in Copy on Duplicate panel in User Preferences #132180
- macOS: Main Window Title Improvements #132410
- UI: Rename masking property to better reflect its usage #132521
- Fix #83589: Remove Tooltips on Gizmo Mouse Down #132576
- Fix #58333: Box select missing status bar key for deselect #133182
- Fix #133203: Call invoke function for transfer mesh data #133228
- UI: Improved Initial Message for Mesh Bisect #133244
- Fix #125833: tooltip disappear on minor mouse movement #133258
- UI: Use icons in UV Stitch Status Bar #133269
- UI: Improve Status Bar Display for GP Lines #133279
- UI: Status Bar Display for GPENCIL_OT_annotate #133402
- UI: Status Bar Message for CLIP_OT_add_marker_at_click #133394
- UI: Use gizmo theme colors for knife tool overlay #133395
- UI: Status Bar Display for POSELIB_OT_blend_pose_asset #133397
- Fix #91223: Draw Non-Object Active Items in Text Hi #133390
- Fix #133434: No default tool for image editor view mode #133471
- Fix #133591: Bevel profile shape name did not match between redo and status bar #133598
- Fix #133550: Status Bar Display at Window Edges #133601
- UI: Status Bar Display Improvements For Regions #133620
- UV Editor: Add shortcut to Copy/Paste UVs #133587
- Fix #119254: Rebuild outliner tree after drop to scene operation #133253
- Fix #125270: Outliner: Fade child object linked to other collection #133637
- Fix #133465: Pulldown selected outline color was not used #133470
- macOS/QuickLook: support rich thumbnail in Finder #107072
- UI: Flip Material icon horizontally #131568
- Fix #132150: macOS: Allow searching keymap using native modifiers key names #132579
High Severity Bugs
- Shortcuts to change “Editor Type” does not remember previous choice #130372
- Jonas and Harley will look at next week probably.
- opening image texture in maximized shader editor will change window content #133281
Winter of Quality
- HackMD page
- Open Reports: -192
- Open Bugs: -144
- Needs Dev Info: -50
Review
- UI: Themeable RedAlert, Error, Warning, Info Colors #131127
- We like. Harley will remove the use of color in the PR
- UI: Reduce Light Theme Icon Border Opacity #131396
- Approved
- Fix #59358: Don’t Show Status Bar Impossible Confirms & Cancels #131336
- Approved
- Refactor: Allow any icons for RNA_def_property_ui_icon #127780
- Will update later for 4.5
- UI: Status Bar Display for Key Blending #133461
- Still in review, probably done.
- UI: Status Bar Display for Pose Inbetweening #133462
- Still being reviewed.
- UI: Simplification of Grease Pencil Fill Status Bar #133247
- Approved
Roadmap
- Proposed MacOS Platform Changes #132509
- Enhance the support for IME in Windows. #132102
- WIP: UI: Bidirectional Text and Complex Shaping #104662
- Linux needs larger cursors
Design & Discussion
- Talk of theming and possibilities of automatic changes from OS
- Discussion of closing known issues that are in the manual
- Talk of dialogs and alerts. Pablo had a great idea about adding a colored top rule.
- Discussions of property decorators
- Update the roadmap file.
- Experimental PRs should be archived.
- GSoC Ideas?
- Will look at prior items. Harley might mentor.
- 5.0 Breaking Changes
- We talked about this a bit, mostly about the need for compressed thumbnails.
- Show “Experimental” without “Developer Extras”?
- Now showing Edit mode vertex index option without this enabled.
- UI Experiment: Area Maintenance by Dragging Headers #131222
- We all like how this feels. Will reference and close. This mainly informs tab behavior.
- Pablo might mock up.
- We all like how this feels. Will reference and close. This mainly informs tab behavior.
- Unable to search in move to collection menu #114479
- We’ll make a task for making this a regular menu that can be searched