interesting. what takes my time (and vertical space) is scrolling thru expanded panels, and i find myself constantly collapsing them. If I were allowed to request a feature, it would be a hotkey to collapse all panels within a context. Invoked as a hotkey, the Home key perhaps, since home in the image editor and sequencer scale the contents to fit within the viewable area. As an icon, perhaps the same little circled + thing used in the outliner window to expand/collapse, placed next to the pushpin on the context header, to expand/collapse all. To me, finding the panel/option you want is all variations on a collapsable menu strategy, like the outliner or menu/submenu lookups.
With the horizontal layout, and the lesser number of panels, categorized into context-subcontext hierarchy, most panels could remain expanded and viewable without scrolling. Now, with a flat set of contexts and many more panels, this does indeed become an issue. ________________________________ From: joe <[email protected]> To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 10:04:37 PM Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] faster usage of panels via pie menu Can we *please* get a vertical layout of the header as well? Joe On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Tom M <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt and others, on IRC we were discussing how slow and workflow > disrupting it is to move to the vertical panel layout and then scroll > to the option you want to tweak. > > It was suggested that a hotkey combo bringing up a pie menu of the > current available panels would be a lot faster, and would eliminate > the need to scroll, similar to how the F6 key after an operator brings > up the tweak operator menu. > > LetterRip > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
