This is a general redesign of the File Browser GUI and interaction
methods. For screenshots, check patch D5601.
Main changes in short:
* File Browser as floating window
* New layout of regions
* Popovers for view and filter options
* Vertical list view with interactive column header
* New and updated icons
* Keymap consistency fixes
* Many tweaks and fixes to the drawing of views
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General:
* The file browser now opens as temporary floating window. It closes on
Esc. The header is hidden then.
* When the file browser is opened as regular editor, the header remains
visible.
* All file browser regions are now defined in Python (the button
layout).
* Adjusted related operator UI names.
Keymap:
Keymap is now consistent with other list-based views in Blender, such as
the Outliner.
* Left click to select, double-click to open
* Right-click context menus
* Shift-click to fill selection
* Ctrl-click to extend selection
Operator options:
These previously overlapped with the source list, which caused numerous
issues with resizing and presenting many settings in a small panel area.
It was also generally inconsistent with Blender.
* Moved to new sidebar, which can easily be shown or hidden using a
prominent Options toggle.
* IO operators have new layouts to match this new sidebar, using
sub-panels. This will have to be committed separately (Add-on
repository).
* If operators want to show the options by default, they have the option
to do so (see `WM_FILESEL_SHOW_PROPS`, `hide_props_region`), otherwise
they are hidden by default.
General Layout:
The layout has been changed to be simpler, more standard, and fits
better in with Blender 2.8.
* More conventional layout (file path at top, file name at the bottom,
execute/cancel buttons in bottom right).
* Use of popovers to group controls, and allow for more descriptive
naming.
* Search box is always live now, just like Outliner.
Views:
* Date Modified column combines both date and time, also uses user
friendly strings for recent dates (i.e. "Yesterday", "Today").
* Details columns (file size, modification date/time) are now toggleable
for all display types, they are not hardcoded per display type.
* File sizes now show as B, KB, MB, ... rather than B, KiB, MiB, … They
are now also calculated using base 10 of course.
* Option to sort in inverse order.
Vertical List View:
* This view now used a much simpler single vertical list with columns
for information.
* Users can click on the headers of these columns to order by that
category, and click again to reverse the ordering.
Icons:
* Updated icons by Jendrzych, with better centering.
* Files and folders have new icons in Icon view.
* Both files and folders have reworked superimposed icons that show
users the file/folder type.
* 3D file documents correctly use the 3d file icon, which was unused
previously.
* Workspaces now show their icon on Link/Append - also when listed in
the Outliner.
Minor Python-API breakage:
* `bpy.types.FileSelectParams.display_type`: `LIST_SHORT` and
`LIST_LONG` are replaced by `LIST_VERTICAL` and `LIST_HORIZONTAL`.
Removes the feature where directories would automatically be created if
they are entered into the file path text button, but don't exist. We
were not sure if users use it enough to keep it. We can definitely bring
it back.
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//Combined effort by @billreynish, @harley, @jendrzych, my university
colleague Brian Meisenheimer and myself.//
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5601
Reviewers: Brecht, Bastien
The recent commit of synced selection added an active color theme to
the outliner, and synced selection enabled by default. The subversion
bump was missed.
Move outliner versioning for syncing and themes to the block
for the next subversion bump. It was not moved from the first
location it was placed in the soc-2019-outliner branch.
Old files will now load with synced selection enabled reliably.
Adds a toggle to the filter menu for outliner synced selection. Enabled
by default, this ensures selection is synced between objects, bones, and
sequences. An active outliner element theme color is added to indicate
which element is active.
Synced selection is controlled on the operator level. Each operator
that modifies selection for objects, bones, sequences, or outliner
elements needs to call the respective ED_outliner_select_sync_from..
function to tag outliners to be synced.
Syncing is done lazily on outliner draw.
- Add 'Navigation Buttons' preference, used for 2D views
(previously this couldn't be disabled).
- Add "Off" option for 3D view axis.
- Support minimal axis with navigation buttons.
Now a small threshold is used for mouse input,
avoiding delay when gizmos are activated on drag.
Tablet input threshold remains unchanged since
it's easier to make small movements when using a tablet.
A larger threshold for non-cursor input is now used (typically keyboard)
which improves usability when the "Pie Menu on Drag" key-map preference.
* Change circle to roundbox around active icons, so they don't overflow.
* Change text color to indicate selected and active state.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4650
Due to recent changes the default aa samples in the viewport was set to
16, but should have been 8. This is due to how the old viewport quality
setting was interpreted by the workbench engine. This patch will respect
the same way to version the viewport quality to viewport_aa as the
workbench used to do this.
In recent changes the viewport_quality setting was not working what
users expected. This change will separate the anti-aliasing method that
is being used.
We now have three settings:
* scene.display.render_aa: Will be used during `Render Image`.
* scene.display.viewport_aa: Will be used during `Viewport Render Image`.
* userpref.viewport_aa: Will be used in the 3d view.
The viewport_quality setting has been replaced by the viewport_aa
setting as it was the only thing in currently controlled.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T64132
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4828
The main reason for this change is to allow setting the
active frame with the left mouse button, while still being
able to select e.g. keyframes with the same mouse button.
The solution is to introduce a new scrubbing region with
a specialized keymap. There are a couple of related todos,
that will be handled in separate commits.
Those are listed in D4654.
This solves T63193.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4654
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
Note: Some adjustments were made compared to the diff mainly for code
readability and made the default ball size 150px.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D4793
This adds a new "Automatic" image display method which uses GLSL shaders for
most images. It only does CPU side color management for higher res images
where sending big float buffers to the GPU is likely to be a bottleneck or
cause memory usage problem.
Automatic is the default now, previously it was 2D Texture.
A hard coded threshold was used to ignore cursor motion,
make this a preference since tablet users may want to increase it
since a pen hovering isn't as easy to keep still as a mouse.
Resolves T56278
Enable depth picking by default.
This adds new 'gpu_flag' since it's not so relevant to add GPU drawing
options into uiflag & uiflag2.
This resets the recently added smooth edge flag.
Requested by some users who prefer old wireframe precision.
Smooth wires are still enabled by defaults as they don't have a noticeable
perf impact.
Application restart is needed for changes to take effects.
Currently the preferences have both tweak and drag threshold,
this is confusing because most actions users would consider
dragging use the 'tweak' setting.
Now one drag threshold is used for both, with a maximum limit of half
the button unit-size in case of dragging UI elements.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
TH_BACK was being used when drawing the 3D view even though
there was no way to set the color in the preferences.
The color was zero'd when moving to the new 2.8x theme.
Having both gradient and background colors was confusing,
especially having to use 'TH_HIGH_GRAD' for the 3D view, 'TH_BACK' for
other views.
Move the background color back to 'TH_BACK', 'TH_BACK_GRAD' is used
when gradients are enabled.
RNA is unchanged so presets don't need updating.
When holding down the key for a while, the pie menu will disappear when
releasing the key. This is under the assumption that in this case the user
decided to cancel the action.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4180
In a77b63c569, the Preferences navigation region background was
made brighter. Recently stored userpref.blends (since b00963afc1,
so beta release included) would still use the slightly darker
background for the Preferences navigation region.
Now the version patch added for a77b63c569 also sets the new color
for those recent configs.
(Part 1 was 00963afc14978b)
Does the following changes visible to users:
* Use panels and sub-panels for more structured & logical grouping
* Re-organized options more logically than before (see images in D4148)
* Use flow layout (single column by default).
* New layout uses horizontal margin if there's enough space.
* Change size of Preferences window to suit new layout.
* Move keymap related options from "Input" into own section.
* Own, left-bottom aligned region for Save Preferences button.
* Adjustments of names, tooltips & icons.
* Move buttons from header into the main region (except editor switch).
* Hide Preferences header when opened in temporary window.
* Use full area width for header.
* Don't use slider but regular number widget for UI scale.
* Gray out animation player path option if player isn't "Custom"
Internal changes:
* Rearrange RNA properties to match changed UI structure.
* Introduces new "EXECUTE" region type, see reasoning in D3982.
* Changes to panel layout and AZone code for dynamic panel region.
* Bumps subversion and does versioning for new regions.
RNA changes are documented in the release notes:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.80/Python_API/Preferences_API
Design & implementation mostly done by @billreynish and myself.
I recommend checking out the screenshots posted by William:
https://developer.blender.org/D4148#93787
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T54115
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4148
