2025-02-25 User Interface Meeting

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User Interface Module Meeting 2025-02-25T16:00:00Z

Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last regular meeting was February 11th, next meeting on March 11th

Attendees

  • Pablo Vazquez
  • Hans Goudey
  • Falk David
  • Nika Kutsniashvili
  • John Kiril Swenson
  • Jean-Silas Moor
  • J Andrew “Drew” Medina
  • Harley Acheson

Merged to 4.4 Since Last Meeting

Merged to 4.5 Since Last Meeting

High Severity Bugs

Review

Design & Discussion

  • Lots of talk of mouse, tablet, finger interaction, especially in modifying behavior during interaction.
  • Harley has an idea that could help solve area activation issues when using pointing devices without a “tracking” state. Will explore further and mock up.
  • Harley will update the icon overlay PR to be less experimental, remove some of the sillier ideas. Replacement of current “Add” icon variations could be initial feature. Make it work with theme colors.
  • Front Face Orientation Color overrides previous theme color on preference copy #134621
    • Harley will alter the version code to check for the specific old colors
  • From “Blender Today”. Do we want a color specifically for “Not Found”, i.e. Pink?
    • Maybe, although not needed yet so tabled.
  • Grease Pencil: Brush cursor is tiny and hard to see #134824
    • This is more about the outer custom area not shown than the one-pixel sized one. Falk will propose a “Show Cursor While Drawing” toggle.
  • Some Workspaces create extra Screen element in Outliner #134859
    • Not discussed
  • WIP: UI: Larger Linux Mouse Cursors #134894
    • Harley will probably make this an Experimental feature for this for dev testing
  • UI Experiment: Area Maintenance Visible Corner Drag Widgets #134826
    • This could coexist with tabs. Pablo will test.
  • With the theme colors for error, success, etc. Harley will try reversing course a bit, with theme color directly used for text color, blending with background for other uses.
  • Lot of discussion of Falk’s UI: Modifier: Boolean inputs as toggles in panel headers #133936. Looks awesome.
  • “Swap Areas” on the status bar looks funny on Mac. The “control” icon looks to be using the same width as the “Ctrl” text icon. Harley will look at.
  • Lots of discussion with John Kiril Swenson about scrollbar fixes (yeah!) and about user interaction in VSE. Harley could assist with Region overlay drawing.
  • Lots of discussion of USD issues with Jean-Silas Moor, mostly about difficulties in presenting so many options in an understandable way to users. Studios that do it well don’t share. More complex features will probably require structured custom properties and options for propagation and inheritance.
  • J Andrew “Drew” Medina might want to help with icons. Harley will assist with resources.
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Icons color theme customization should be separate between the Outliner and Properties Tabs. Some may what the color in the outliner but want black and white on the Properties tab like the initial Blender 3.0 UI was.

Also, the gizmo visibility in the viewport should be separated from the navigation controls buttons under it. One might only want the gizmo visible and the navigation controls disabled.

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