Re: [Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-29 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, A good guideline for UI design is to always consider options and choices to be done only in a last unfortunate case when nothing else can work. If you need to patch design to make it usable, we better go back to look at the core design concepts itself. -Ton-

Re: [Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-29 Thread David Jeske
On Jun 29, 2013 7:01 AM, Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org wrote: If you need to patch design to make it usable, we better go back to look at the core design concepts itself. While the 3 current operator UIs (menu-bar modal text, tools-opperator panel, and F6 floating panel) are usable.. they

Re: [Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-26 Thread Sean Olson
I personally rebind the 3d cursor to ctrl+click and the Operator Panel to right mouse click. It's then always at the mouse and super easy to access. (I use left click selection). I find it much easier than mousing over to the often half hidden operator panel in the sidebar. -Sean On Fri, Jun

Re: [Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-21 Thread Knapp
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gaia gaia.cl...@machinimatrix.org wrote: Hi, all; I asked myself: Why does the operator panel appear in the tool shelf although the operator has been called from the properties sidebar ? At least on a large display that can be really far far away :)

Re: [Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-21 Thread Julio Iglesias
I would be inclined to have an option to automatically launch a F6 popup widget at mouse position, because it doesn't get any closer than that. And I agree with Knapp: we should be able to move and close it, because quite often we need to rotate the view and review the result before accepting the

[Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

2013-06-20 Thread Gaia
Hi, all; I asked myself: Why does the operator panel appear in the tool shelf although the operator has been called from the properties sidebar ? At least on a large display that can be really far far away :) I have an idea for the case where an operator is called by click on a button