An alternative to the two operators approach is to add in-transform options which are modifiable on the fly, like picking the axis/offset in the transform tools with keys or the scroll wheel to adjust the number of cuts in knife tool.
Another option is to perhaps have the two different modes that just set this secondary step AND let the user be able to change the type mid-operator. My will be done ;) Keith. On 2010/02/11 03:48 PM, William Reynish wrote: > Hi all, > > A lot of fantastic features and fixes has made it into 2.5 recently, but one > thing caught my eye as a pretty large setback. > > When extruding, a popup menu now appears giving the user several option to > choose from. Unfortunately I don't think this is a very good solution, for > these reasons: > > *It destroys workflow by taking the user out of the current context (mesh > manipulation) and into a new one (menu with options). Is distracting and > annoying. Your attention is interrupted. > *It requites an extra click *every* time the user wants to extrude anything > *It requires extra precision mouse travel to select the relevant option > > Extruding is such an oft-used tool that that this has a rather huge negative > implications for mesh modeling as a whole. I think anyone would agree to be > against popup menus before transforms, and the same applies to other common > tools, such as extrude. > > While I appreciate the problem that was attempted to be solved with the popup > menu, it's pretty disastrous for workflow. Now, there are several alternative > solutions possible, but the best one I can think of is as follows: > > *Extrude Region / Individual should become two operators, keeping Extrude > Region on the E shortcut. Either that, or it's one operator with two > settings, which are invoked with two different hotkeys and two different > entries in the toolbar. > *Extrude vert/edge/face should just follow what selection mode you're > currently in. > > Cheers, > > -William > _______________________________________________ > 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
