| Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) | |
| Aug 20 2019, 7:52 PM |
| Andy Cuccaro (AndyCuccaro) |
| Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) |
| Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) |
| Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) |
| Duarte Farrajota Ramos (duarteframos) |
| Kshitij (KshitijRajgude) |
| Peter Fog (tintwotin) |
| Rohan Rathi (RohanRathi) |
Currently, Blender includes these controls for editing rich text:
Unfortunately, these buttons don't work in a very useful or intuitive or way.
We can make this easier to use:
Split out font picker task - T71484, this could be used for user preferences or other areas fonts are used.
This task should include a complete design, marking as incomplete.
Automatic bold/italic is a project on it's own since a better UI for setting font italic/bold etc doesn't depend on this.
Supporting this will likely expose limits in self-intersected curve filling.
While this would be nice, it's far beyond the scope of font UI/UX improvements.
Split into a separate task T71529: Text object automatic bold/italic creation when font's aren't present
In terms of overall direction, I think properties and operators that affect text selection could move into the tool settings and mode popovers. There could also be a text edit tool in the toolbar, enable by default. This would position the text cursor and select ranges of text. The properties editor would only have properties that affect the entire text object.
This kind of layout in the tool settings bar would be similar to other rich text editors.