2025-05-20 User Interface Meeting

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User Interface Module Meeting 2025-05-20T15:00:00Z

Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last regular meeting was May 6th, next meeting on June 3rd

Present

  • Julian Eisel
  • Pablo Vazquez
  • Hans Goudey
  • Habib Gahbiche
  • John Kiril Swenson
  • Harley Acheson

Since the Last Meeting

Meeting Topics

Review

Design Discussions

  • Lots of discussion of touch interaction.
  • Nodes: rename “Hide” to “Collapse”
    • Yes, but only user visible changes, leaving code and shortcut changes to 5.0
  • WIP: UI: RPT_ERROR Report Popup As Alert Dialog #134376
    • Harley explained that this approach - creating a popup dialog as a response to RPT_ERROR report - doesn’t offer a chance to differ it. Might need mouse-position and movement dismiss sometimes, other times it might need a centered prominent dialog. This has to be done at the calling site, not in response to the error report.
  • UI: Experiment: Popup Block Alert Level Indicator #134084
    • Will keep the alert-level, but we don’t like the outline. We will probably decorate only error for now, but with the top line as shown before. Pablo might want to see colored icon for this case. Possibility of decorating states less than warning with green perhaps.
  • WIP: UI: Absolutely Positioned and Saved Popup Blocks #136995
    • We want to move forward with this idea of replacing the HUD with an “Adjust Last” that can remember position. There are some layout issues with popup dialogs not having a title (part of the layout) and collapsing content from there.
  • Nodes: support separators in node group interface #138747
    • We like it. Harley wants it to get thicker with 2D zoom. Julian and Pablo wanting some changes/options on how wide the separator is shown in some circumstance.
  • UI Experiment: Nodes: Draw indicator on nodes with hidden options #137694
    • Lots of discussion on this and the general problem of showing differing amounts of information, including the “pill” state.
  • VSE: Deprecating “Legacy tweaking” in favor of “Simple tweaking” for 5.0
    • Agree on removing, not just deprecating, “Legacy tweaking”
  • VSE: Avoid setting “active strip” on dual handle tweak
  • Harley mentioned that he might get help from Habib for Complex shaping. This some editing-related changes/testing in order to get this into “Experimental”. Will keep everyone apprised of time estimates.
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