Let me heby begin a little battle against auto-hide sockets of collapsed nodes: Please take a look:
https://vimeo.com/40237189 Bartek Skorupa www.bartekskorupa.com On 2012-04-10, at 09:47, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi Lukas, > > I would like to see such usability changes in nodes to go via at > least the other listed node UI owners too. > > For me huge alarm bells ring when people talk about "adding options" > or "giving users choices". That's usually just patching flawed > designs... > > Remove the autohide for now? We should spend design powers on how we > want to work with node systems in general. > > -Ton- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] > www.blender.org > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The > Netherlands > > On 9 Apr, 2012, at 21:10, François T. wrote: > >> I'm with Bartek on this one :( >> >> 2012/4/9 Lukas Tönne <[email protected]> >> >>>> I missed it because now you select socket by left clicking. I was >>>> trying to select them by right clicking (as it was in 2.49) and >>>> when >>>> it failed I was sure we still don't have this option available. >>>> This feature is a real time saver. >>> >>> The primary way of selecting sockets is with SHIFT + RMB. First this >>> was implemented as simple RMB select, but this turned out to be >>> quite >>> chaotic since it effectively allows multiple nodes selected (see >>> [1]). >>> Selecting sockets with LMB is a side effect of the select-on-link >>> "feature" (which i'd like to remove again). You see this area is >>> pretty complicated, lots of different little features interfering >>> with >>> each other :S >>> >>>> Auto hide sockets: >>>> As I can see from your post you are all the time thinking about >>>> automatic behavior. >>>> If I may suggest something - I'd rather leave more options to the >>>> user. >>> >>> Yeah, i implemented this on explicit request (i think Sebastian >>> asked >>> for it, don't remember), i suggest you talk to him. The CTRL+H idea >>> seems good, i didn't realize this doesn't work on the auto-hidden >>> sockets now. Feedback is important for us coders :) Will have to >>> check >>> with core devs if i can add this right away of have to wait for next >>> BCon1. >>> >>> [1] >>> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2012-March/044066.html >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ____________________ >> François Tarlier >> www.francois-tarlier.com >> www.linkedin.com/in/francoistarlier >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
