User Interface Module Meeting 2025-04-08T15:00:00Z
Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last regular meeting was March 25th, next meeting on 2025-04-22T15:00:00Z
Attendees
- Hans Goudey
- Pablo Vazquez
- Thomas Dinges
- Nika Kutsniashvili
- John Kiril Swenson
- J Andrew “Drew” Medina
- Asher S.
- Harley Acheson
Since the Last Meeting
- Fix #136157: UI: Eyedropper tooltip remains visible in non-active space #136168
- Fix: Reset Widths After Hiding Region #136527
- UI: Show Curves info in viewport statistics #136070
- UI: Remove Frame Stalk When Timelines Minimized #136698
- Fix #136504: Clamp Scaling of Color Picker Value Handle #136566
- Fix #136420: Null check description in file_execute_get_description #136421
- UI: preferences.addon_show() | Skip opening another window if there’s already a preferences editor in the current window #136139
- Fix #135982: Do Not Use Large Custom Cursors on MacOS #136005
- UI: Status Bar Feedback at Corner Zone While Still #136900
- Fix #136479: missing Image preview icons for certain render engines #136824
- Fix #136781: Ensure Area Resizing Between Scroll Bars #136794
- Fix: UI: Remove tree view padding on right #136746
- UI: Use busyButClickableCursor for MacOS Wait Cursor #136735
- UI: Curves and Grease Pencil dimensions in transform side panel #136592
- UI: Use Previous Directional Cursors for Region Open Zone #136583
- Fix #136314: Outline flicker when resizing editor #136487
- UI: Use Icon for Panel Header Grip #134471
- UI: Allow Changing Editor Outline Width #126334
- Fix: Theme Editor dropdown label not updating when resetting to default theme #134844
Meeting Topics
Review
- UI: Do Not Open Neighboring Menu if Open One is Wide #136528
- Approved. No downside seen.
- UI: Padding When Opening Menu When One is Already Open #135692
- Approved.
- UI: Do Not Full Hide Scroll Bars When Region Overlap #136571
- Approved.
- UI: Improved Display as Panels Narrow #136581
- Pretty, but let’s get the other region changes in first and see how it all feels.
- UI: Allow Using Mac Option, Command + Arrow Input Movement #136904
- Makes sense. Added Jonas as reviewer - he has further patches
Pen/Touch Related
- UI: Region Scaling Edge Highlighting #136337
- Approved. Once these are in it might be nice to explore a ghosted highlight at region edge and mouse position, to show action between and before snap locations.
- UI Experiment: Decrease Tablet Drag Threshold With Pen Pressure #136685
- Pablo and Hans will test.
- UI: Increase Gizmo 3D Part Hit Size For Pens #136847
- Makes sense. We like
- UI: Highlight Region Scale Action Zone #136799
- Pablo will test. It might feel different after other region changes are in.
Design Discussions
- Discussion of pen and tablet interaction.,
- UI Experiment: Top Bar Tabs as Pills #137070
- We all like. Given it a 5.0 milestone.
- UI Experiment: Layout Menu #137066
- No need yet. The code is useful.
- UI: Solo Icon Change #137014
- Doesn’t quite do it for us.
- WIP: UI: Absolutely Positioned and Saved Popup Blocks #136995
- Next step for this is probably a “Collapsible” flag (and collapsed?) for popup blocks that would add disclosure triangle and maybe gripper.
- UI: Icon Decorations #121138
- Mostly showing off the idea of using a ring to indicate property settings. No need for this yet. Seems to only work with flat designs. Needs mockups.
- UI Experiment: Snapping for View3D Sidebar #136575
- For Pablo to test. Difficult to choose snapping locations. Might feel differently after other region changes. It might be nice to snap to tabs-only position and then add to code to expand region on tab click.
- WIP: VSE: Refactor and improve Slip Operator - blender - Blender Projects #137072
- Love it. Lots of discussion of this, if best to truncate or round to frames, how to show changes.
- VSE: Blade Tool Cursor - blender - Blender Projects #136749
- Awesome. We should probably make platform-specific aliased versions of this once it gets in.
- Timeline has issues when very small and there are markers. Harley will investigate.
