2025-06-17 User Interface Meeting

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User Interface Module Meeting 2025-06-17T15:00:00Z

Regular User Interface module meeting for planning and coordination. Last regular meeting was June 3rd, next meeting on 2025-07-01T15:00:00Z

Present

  • Pablo Vazquez
  • Julian Eisel
  • Hans Goudey
  • Richard Antalik
  • Habib Gahbiche
  • Nika Kutsniashvili
  • Jean-Silas Moor
  • John Kiril Swenson
  • Harley Acheson

Since the Last Meeting

High Severity Bugs

Meeting Topics

Review

Design Discussions

  • Operator shortcuts: should be decided per operator, not globally. Background: known issue in compositor #66764
    • We’d rather this be decided in the transform code.
  • UI: Replace Top Bar Region Emboss with Fade #137921
    • Harley likes each individual change, especially when in motion, but finds the effect a bit messy when used all over. And the hint of scrolled header text doesn’t work when when still. Everyone else likes though. So Harley will make some defines so Pablo can tweak.
  • UI Experiment: Region Disclosure Icons #140377
    • We don’t mind the icons but they don’t indicate strong enough the on/off status. We don’t like the region disclosure proposals. Pablo prefers a single line - Harley will try.
  • UI Experiment: Tablet Mock-up #139190
    • Now working for most things it shows, so good for testing what works and does not. Obvious sticking points include the reorganized menus (blender, file). Still interest in area overlap, ScrArea popups, or similar. Can 3DView just not change view on resize? Having just two areas might work, but might need to include vertical split for some areas. So opening Timeline would close right-side and open at bottom.
  • UI: VSE and various editor zoom levels don’t change when toggling Maximize/Fullscreen area #140267
    • No consensus on this change.
  • Richard Antalik asking about the best way to change areas for VSE workspace. Best to change the startup file itself. Harley could make some function to change all areas at once, but this is the first time we’ve needed such a thing, so not at this time.
  • Lots of discussion of theme changes Pablo wants to do.
  • Panel Outlines? yes.
  • Panel shadows? Yes, but needs some thought on UI item z-depths and shadow scaling.
  • Center aligned operator status? Probably. No consensus on any other approach.
  • Colors in XYZ inputs? Yes, might need tweaking to the dividing border line.
  • UI: Add scrollable pagination to pie menus #139588
    • We like! The dots indicating pages is too small/subtle
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