On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Mike Erwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Also interested in feedback on the NDof UI and how best to re-arrange. >> > > Although the options exposed in the popup menu do need to be tweaked > to make more sense, I stand by my choice of putting these here instead > of in the Input pane of User Prefs. > > 1) Users without a 3D mouse are not bothered with settings that don't > affect them > 2) Options are context-specific, for whichever space type is active > 3) Settings can be changed on the fly, without interruption to work flow > > None of the 300 or so test users have indicated confusion or annoyance > with this setup, so why must it be rearranged?
My misunderstanding, since it was in space_view3d.py and called VIEW3D_MT_ndof_settings I assumed you added access to the ndof user preferences from the 3D view, in fact this is a standalone menu with no reference from the 3D view. Moved to space_userpref.py and renamed to USERPREF_MT_ndof_settings >> A more general issue with how we expose tool setting, I noticed in the >> recent NDof commits. >> It exposes user preferenes in the view3d toolbar. >> See: space_view3d.py -> layout.prop(input_prefs, "ndof_sensitivity") >> The operator to interactively adjust the sensitivity is also modifying >> a user preference. >> IMHO this should either have the buttons moved to the user preferences >> Input UI or move the internal data to scene->toolsettings. >> Currently its confusing to adjust some settings in the toolbar and not >> save them with the blend. > > Sensitivity and all ndof flags are saved in the blend (hopefully in a > separate user prefs file soon). U.ndof_sensitivity is adjusted with > operators because it is a user setting and it must be adjusted on the > fly, in response to buttons on the device and the slider you see in > the UI. This variable does have an RNA wrapper, but it seemed to me > quicker to just use the underlying DNA data. Is there a better way to > do this? Since its a user preference, the values set wont be saved in the blend file unless its to save the user default. Try load a blend, change the settings through the menu, File New, check on settings again. Think its ok to leave as is re-evaluate this when the preferences are split up, its only a few settings so easy to move about. > Mike Erwin > musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
