Solution to the sidebar panel design

[kynu]

Oh those addon icons we made mockups of multiple times, parallel…

Welcome back, I always followed and liked your (reasonable) ideas.

I get anxious about this one, as this seems the only functioning way and William Reynish actually confirmed once, that it’s what they have in mind and it’s planned. But I haven’t heard from him and about any bigger UI changes for ages. We should keep making noise about this till the 3.0 UI meetup happens.

So I’d be happy to have those icons in the N panel with the added functionality improvement idea I stole from PS (and I’m also linking)

Mine:

Blender UI paper cuts

The other idea is not a paper-cut but because it’s related I’d like to post it here. I hope it still lands in the right person’s brain. Again it’s a PS paradigm that every panel is movable and dockable anywhere. AND I JUST LOVE THAT. And it’s super-complementary to Blender’s ideology with one key difference: Blender treats the different panel structures as islands. Bars, panels and editors are not interchangeable. Forget bars, that’s limited in PS too, but would solutions lik…

Blender UI paper cuts

Using 2.8 I find myself many times expecting Blender’s UI work similar to Photoshop’s. But that one is polished for decades now in the same principles so they have a lot to catch up to. One particular thing is tapping on tabs in the N panel. I tap on them many times expecting this: [image] This would also be handy for tablet users

jendrzych’s:

Blender UI paper cuts

Ha! I’d love to see it like that. I even made similar mockup some time before: [N-panel%20icons%20MOCKUP_1]