It was sort of suggested in the past: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/UI/Mode_sensitive_outliner
also moving/replicating these lists to the N-panel, so that the properties editor can be hidden altogether and give much more space and functionality for the outliner: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/UI/mode_sensitive_N-Panel Basically: -more flexibility -More vertical space for the outliner -More functionality and less replication of buttons and scatter of datablock lists. On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Vilem Novak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I just saw one of the feature videos for 2.74. > Listview was extended in particles properties to enable toggles for view > and > render. > list view also got a lot of other features recently, like alphabetical > sorting, searching e.t.c. > > While this kind of features are of course very usefull and everybody is > gratefull for them, because artists do really need them, there is something > behind this patch that made me worried about the design part of it. > > The new toggles are there basically so that the user doesn't have to switch > to modifiers to switch off the particles. As with the other features > mentioned, the newly added features basically duplicate outliner > functionality. > > It's something list view was since the beginning - a small outliner inside > the property window. > > So the question is, why isn't all this functionality inside the outliner > window? > Something where you could see modifers, various vertex/edge groups,particle > systems e.t.c. directly inside the outliner. > > Then, the space of the UI would be more optimally used, and there would be > no need for such workarounds. > > Kind regards > > Vilem N. > developer of Blender CAM > _______________________________________________ > 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
