Maniphest T57790

vertical properties menu issues
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Assigned To
Julian Eisel (Severin)
Authored By
danny austin (dannysetvisions)
Nov 12 2018, 1:59 PM
Tags
  • User Interface
  • BF Blender
Subscribers
danny austin (dannysetvisions)
Julian Eisel (Severin)
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk)

Description

System Information
win 10 pro
Nvidia GTX 980

Blender Version
Broken: 2.8 2018-11-12 09:09

Short description of error
The properties menu is now vertical... surely that's a bug?
When clicking between the different sections, sometimes the mode doesn't actually change.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Click quickly between different icons of the properties categories.

please ditch the vertical menu. which way are you reading this email? left to right? me too. Please return this list of icons to left to right.

Related Objects

Mentioned Here
rBab6c7ff2ab15: UI: Vertical Properties Editor Tabs
T54951: Properties Editor Design
D3840: UI: Vertical Properties Editor Tabs

Event Timeline

danny austin (dannysetvisions) created this task.Nov 12 2018, 1:59 PM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) assigned this task to Julian Eisel (Severin).Nov 12 2018, 3:26 PM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added subscribers: Julian Eisel (Severin), Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk).

This was changed in rBab6c7ff2ab15 (and generally recieved positive feedback afaict, it has a number of advantages, see also discussion in T54951, D3840).

I cant seem to be able to reproduce the following:

When clicking between the different sections, sometimes the mode doesn't actually change

(there seems to be a tiny gap between the tabs [which are also indicated visually] -- are you hitting these? might be debatable if the hotspots should have these gaps as well... maybe @Julian Eisel (Severin) can comment on this...)

So in general I dont think this is a bug, no, but leaving open for the "issue" relating to the gap (@Julian Eisel (Severin): feel free to close if this is on purpose...)

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) edited projects, added BF Blender: 2.8, User Interface; removed BF Blender.Nov 12 2018, 3:27 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) edited projects, added BF Blender; removed BF Blender: 2.8.Dec 11 2018, 3:09 PM
Julian Eisel (Severin) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Nov 12 2019, 11:56 AM

Just checking tasks assigned to me and noticing this.

The tab metaphor and the vertical layout both have advantages. E.g. we should avoid horizontal scrolling, these changes made scrolling unnecessary even. And in this case we have a stack like list that should be presented vertically.
Like said the changes received overwhelmingly positive responses (I expected much more controversy).
Either way, we can't allow bug reports for such kind of design requests. Doing so would not be manageable.

There wasn't any response on the "mode" supposedly not changing sometimes and this is the first report mentioning this since the design change was introduced. So I assume this was just caused by not hitting the tabs but the gap in-between.
Closing this task now.