Hi, I'm very much for good comminicating consitent UIs. Drawing blinking lights or red or orange outlines in windows are not part of that... we can do much better. :)
No tool should take over drawing the windowmanager this way. Not as an option, not as userpref either. -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 9 Oct, 2012, at 11:21, Gianmichele Mariani wrote: > To me a simple red border around the 3d view is the best solution. > Also we already use this kind of indication on the camera when we > enable the "Lock camera to view" option. > > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Brecht Van Lommel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> It was made optional now in svn, but I think that does not really >> address the issue. It's fine to have an indicator that autokey is on, >> it just doesn't need to look as if something bad is happening. Red >> should be reserved for errors. There is no need for a warning/error >> here, just good feedback about what is happening. >> >> For example improve the blinking so that it's more like the report >> message blinking in the info header (which is better visible), show >> the autokey icon in the 3D view header or next to the object name, >> color the header a bit yellow, or show a report that X keyframes were >> inserted after transform is done. I don't know which combination works >> best but the red border is just too much and the current blinking is >> not very visible by itself. >> >> Brecht. >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Francesco Siddi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> a new feature has recently been introduced in Blender: when Autokey is >>> turned on and some object/armature transformation is performed, every 3D >>> viewport gets a red outline and a message reminding the user of the fact >>> the a keyframe will be created at the end of the transformation. >>> >>> After talking with other users, it seems clear that this feature should at >>> least be optional, if not off by default. It's quite distracting to work >>> with a flashing outline all the time. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> Francesco >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
