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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 /source/blender/editors/space_nla | |
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 'source/blender/editors/space_nla')
-rw-r--r-- | source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c b/source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c index 083fd641dc1..1d7e5448b92 100644 --- a/source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c +++ b/source/blender/editors/space_nla/nla_buttons.c @@ -292,8 +292,9 @@ static void nla_panel_animdata(const bContext *C, Panel *panel) (bContext *)C, &adt_ptr, "action", - "ACTION_OT_new", NULL, + "ACTION_OT_new", + "ACTION_OT_duplicate_assign", "NLA_OT_action_unlink", UI_TEMPLATE_ID_FILTER_ALL, false, |