On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Mikhail Rachinskiy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ton, > > 1) Meaningless tooltips > > The "System info" menu has as tooltip "Generate system info". That's >> insufficient. It leaves very relevant information to the notifier button >> that's very easy too miss. > > > The problem is not in the tooltip, it’s in the implementation of the > “System info” itself. > In any other program when you choose “About” or “System Information” > a window pops up with all relevant information. > In Blender you choose “System Info” → then you change area type to Text > Editor → then you select text data block from the list in the Text Editor > header. > Isn’t that over complicated for a simple “Sys Info” option? > > Solution: > Make it behave similar to “User Preferences” option: when you choose “Sys > Info” menu the new window pops up with “Text Editor” and sys-info datablock > already selected. > And no tooltip is required.
Theres a bug on Intel cards we had reported many times where opening new windows crashes (search tracker for "preferences crash"). Even though it's fixed for new cards/drivers, this menu-items main purpose if for bug reports - so I rather not do anything that could cause crashes, even in very rare cases. We could open a file selector and prompt the user to save to disk, this has the advantage that users are more likely to attach the file to reports instead of copy-pasting into the reports text-field, adding a lot of noise to reports. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
