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author | Julian Eisel <julian@blender.org> | 2020-12-18 20:12:11 +0300 |
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committer | Julian Eisel <julian@blender.org> | 2020-12-18 20:28:04 +0300 |
commit | 2250b5cefee7f7cce31e388cb83515543ffe60f0 (patch) | |
tree | cbac53205d453f4b1c7ec221b6377a672d9eaa09 /intern | |
parent | 7bee1489c1d81ecf2634df96ba039549c64313c3 (diff) |
UI: Redesigned data-block selectors
The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
Diffstat (limited to 'intern')
-rw-r--r-- | intern/cycles/blender/addon/ui.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/intern/cycles/blender/addon/ui.py b/intern/cycles/blender/addon/ui.py index f24265d256a..eee7d8ec0b8 100644 --- a/intern/cycles/blender/addon/ui.py +++ b/intern/cycles/blender/addon/ui.py @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ class CYCLES_PT_context_material(CyclesButtonsPanel, Panel): split = layout.split(factor=0.65) if ob: - split.template_ID(ob, "active_material", new="material.new") + split.template_ID(ob, "active_material", new="material.new", duplicate="material.duplicate") row = split.row() if slot: |