Maniphest T38999

Tool tabs and Old Addons living in perfect harmony
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Assigned To
Bastien Montagne (mont29)
Authored By
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo)
Mar 6 2014, 5:10 PM
Tags
  • User Interface
  • BF Blender
Subscribers
alekulyn
Bartosz Moniewski (monio)
Bastien Montagne (mont29)
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton)
Jonathan Williamson (carter2422)
Paweł Łyczkowski (plyczkowski)
Raphael Stoeckli (rabanti)
6 More Subscribers

Description

Hello,

System Information
Windows

Blender Version
Broken: (example: 2.70 RC1 19f7f9a, see splash screen)
Worked: (optional)

Short description of error
The Tool tabs are amazing, but the old or uncategorized addons, keeps appearing on every tab and making a mess and tabs useless.
I would suggest a simple fix for it: to create a tab for those addons, named custom, general, old, miscellaneous, others or something else. So even old scripts would work great until they migrate to the new UI tags and don't mess with the new ones. I believe its almost impossible to all addons being converted soon, so it sounds a good way to keep the toolbar organized.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Open Blender 2.70 RC1 and import previous settings to get all the addons running

Cheers

Revisions and Commits

rB Blender
rB3d6ed42c3bd8 Fix T38999: Tool tabs and Old Addons living in perfect harmony.

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Event Timeline

Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) created this task.Mar 6 2014, 5:10 PM
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) updated the task description.
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) added projects: BF Blender, User Interface.
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) edited a custom field.
Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo) added a subscriber: Sidney Moraes Jr (mangojambo).
Bastien Montagne (mont29) assigned this task to Campbell Barton (campbellbarton).Mar 6 2014, 7:16 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Bastien Montagne (mont29).
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Sanc Tuary (sanctuary).Mar 7 2014, 4:06 PM

◀ Merged tasks: T39024.

Yousef Harfoush (bat3a) added a subscriber: Yousef Harfoush (bat3a).Mar 9 2014, 12:04 AM

+1
i was gonna propose this, switching between tabs gets confusing with the same add-ons settings appear on each one.

Paweł Łyczkowski (plyczkowski) added a subscriber: Paweł Łyczkowski (plyczkowski).Mar 12 2014, 9:09 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: william willybid (willybid).Mar 14 2014, 12:01 PM

◀ Merged tasks: T39179.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Raphael Stoeckli (rabanti).Mar 24 2014, 1:21 PM

◀ Merged tasks: T39385.

Bartosz Moniewski (monio) added a subscriber: Bartosz Moniewski (monio).Mar 26 2014, 9:54 AM
Bartosz Moniewski (monio) added a comment.EditedMar 26 2014, 10:05 AM

+1
I think that is best solution for this problem. For clarity this tab can be just named "Addons" so non experienced users will see easily where their plugins are. Name "Custom" suggest that this tab is somehow created by user, while this can be awesome functionality to have this is beyond of this proposal.

Another benefit for this solution is choice for developers if they really want custom tab for theirs addons or not. Some script are just so small that don't need whole tab. Many addons are just single button that starts operation that can be tweaked in Redo panel, no need to waste vertical space for them.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Никита Городецкий (nikitron).Apr 1 2014, 2:59 PM

◀ Merged tasks: T39544.

alekulyn added a subscriber: alekulyn.Apr 5 2014, 10:15 AM

I have an idea I'd like to get out. How about defining a new addon preferences field called "Tab" (or something else intuitive) for addons that are in the contrib folder or installed? That is, just not ones that are maintained. This field is, by default, empty, but can be initialized by the addon through bl_category or overwritten by the user's choice.

Vlad Mafteiu Scai (00Ghz) added a subscriber: Vlad Mafteiu Scai (00Ghz).Aug 15 2014, 8:49 PM

You mean adding from preferences addons to custom tabs? Sounds good

Yousef Harfoush (bat3a) added a comment.Aug 16 2014, 1:25 AM
are in the contrib folder or installed?

that would be painful for users and devs. too, it is already annoying when trying to enable it from the preferences especially the external ones with it's toggle button.

a unified non-categorized tab for the rest of the addons is simple solution and enough as suggested.

so what is taking so long to get a decision here!, if the are any problems with this solution, moderators or UI design guys should act, it has been annoying for many -see how much threads been merged here -

also i don't see it is much of a coding issue, although i'm not suggesting that anyone to dedicate time to it, but taking the decision is the important/hardest step.

Sebastian Röthlisberger (bashi) added a subscriber: Sebastian Röthlisberger (bashi).Aug 18 2014, 1:29 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) claimed this task.Aug 26 2014, 2:44 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Campbell Barton (campbellbarton).

Stealing, this should have been fixed months ago… :/

Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Aug 26 2014, 2:51 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a commit: rB3d6ed42c3bd8: Fix T38999: Tool tabs and Old Addons living in perfect harmony..

Closed by commit rB3d6ed42c3bd8.

Jonathan Williamson (carter2422) added a subscriber: Jonathan Williamson (carter2422).Aug 27 2014, 6:22 PM

Good solution @Bastien Montagne (mont29)!

Yousef Harfoush (bat3a) added a comment.Aug 28 2014, 1:11 AM

@Bastien Montagne (mont29): thanks man, at last more than 50% of tabs clutter just vanished.