Maniphest T93482

Asset Browser: Search result of previously selected asset
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Assigned To
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren)
Authored By
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto)
Nov 29 2021, 4:33 PM
Tags
  • Asset Browser
  • User Interface
  • BF Blender (3.1)
Subscribers
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto)
James Partsafas (JamesPartsafas)
Julian Eisel (Severin)
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren)

Description

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.0.0 Release Candidate, branch: master, commit date: 2021-11-29 10:04, hash: rBb31250feba4c
Worked: -

Short description of error
When searching assets, the current selected asset is not considered selected. Even if it was selected before and if it is still visible (and selected).

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

colors.blend174 KBDownload

  1. Select the Yellow asset.
  2. Search for "warm" (it is a tag)

Result:

  • Both Yellow and Red show.
  • The yellow still shows as selected.
  • The panel says "No asset selected".

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rB2f7bec04e8e7: Asset Browser: Fix incorrect user message

Event Timeline

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) created this task.Nov 29 2021, 4:33 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added projects: Asset Browser, User Interface.
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Confirmed.Nov 29 2021, 4:43 PM
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Bug".
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) edited projects, added BF Blender (3.1); removed BF Blender.
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) added a subscriber: Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren).

This has to do with Blender distinguishing between "active" and "selected", and one not always implying the other. It's confusing, and in this case the label is also incorrect (it should read "No active asset" instead). A better solution would be to just enforce that when there is no active asset, the selected one should become active.

James Partsafas (JamesPartsafas) added a subscriber: James Partsafas (JamesPartsafas).Nov 30 2021, 2:14 AM
Julian Eisel (Severin) added a subscriber: Julian Eisel (Severin).Nov 30 2021, 1:16 PM

Corrected the label: 2f7bec04e8e7

A better solution would be to just enforce that when there is no active asset, the selected one should become active.

Meeh, I would find this quite weird and unexpected. It's not a common pattern and in this case for the better I think. There can also be multiple selected items, which one to choose? Tested the current behavior and it's actually kind of nice: When filtering and the active item disappears, the sidebar shows "No active asset". If you edit the filter string to make it reappear, you get your previous active item back.

Should we close this report now? Technically everything works as it's designed to from what I can tell. It was just the label that was wrong and misleading.

Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) closed this task as Resolved.Nov 30 2021, 1:18 PM
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) claimed this task.
In T93482#1262288, @Julian Eisel (Severin) wrote:

Should we close this report now? Technically everything works as it's designed to from what I can tell. It was just the label that was wrong and misleading.

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