Improved organisation of add-ons panel #21539

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Bart Crouch · 2010-03-10T16:51:19+01:00

Bart Crouch commented

2010-03-10 16:51:19 +01:00

%%%Since a short time there is an add-ons panel in the User Preferences window. It displays all scripts that are located in the add-ons folder of the user and enables users to manage his or her scripts. Unfortunately this will turn into a mess, once a lot of scripts are added to it.

This patch intends to ascertain that even with many scripts available, the panel will remain easy to use. Changes included in this patch are:

Allow to filter by category
Adds the possibility to search the add-ons by name and author
Add possibility to expand an add-on, displaying more information like author, version, description, etc. (conform blender 2.4, link 1)
Warns when a user wants to enable a script that was written for a newer version of blender

When discussing on IRC there were different opinions on how to define the different script categories.
Meta-androcto and Mindrones liked to have them pre-defined, so they are easier to maintain. (images 1, 2 and 3) They actually helped in creating the list of categories that is included in the patch.
Ideasman42 liked them to work like labels in Gmail: they can be freely defined and the script collects which categories are in use. (image 4)

Hence I've included two different patches.
free_categories.patch works as described by ideasman 42.
predefined_categories.patch works as described by Meta-androcto and Mindrones

Link 1: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Crouch/Script_Parameters
Image 1: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1857
Image 2: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1858
Image 3: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1860
Image 4: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1859%%%

%%%Since a short time there is an add-ons panel in the User Preferences window. It displays all scripts that are located in the add-ons folder of the user and enables users to manage his or her scripts. Unfortunately this will turn into a mess, once a lot of scripts are added to it. This patch intends to ascertain that even with many scripts available, the panel will remain easy to use. Changes included in this patch are: - Allow to filter by category - Adds the possibility to search the add-ons by name and author - Add possibility to expand an add-on, displaying more information like author, version, description, etc. (conform blender 2.4, link 1) - Warns when a user wants to enable a script that was written for a newer version of blender When discussing on IRC there were different opinions on how to define the different script categories. Meta-androcto and Mindrones liked to have them pre-defined, so they are easier to maintain. (images 1, 2 and 3) They actually helped in creating the list of categories that is included in the patch. Ideasman42 liked them to work like labels in Gmail: they can be freely defined and the script collects which categories are in use. (image 4) Hence I've included two different patches. free_categories.patch works as described by ideasman 42. predefined_categories.patch works as described by Meta-androcto and Mindrones Link 1: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Crouch/Script_Parameters Image 1: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1857 Image 2: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1858 Image 3: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1860 Image 4: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/1859%%%

Bart Crouch commented

2010-03-10 16:51:19 +01:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Bart Crouch commented

2010-03-11 16:22:32 +01:00

%%%Updated the predefined categories patch, to reflect wiki conventions on the category names. (modeLLing to modeLing)%%%

Thomas Dinges commented

2010-03-12 12:42:19 +01:00

%%%Great one, will go over it and check this evening! %%%

Thomas Dinges commented

2010-03-13 01:21:56 +01:00

%%%Commited the free_categories.patch which makes more Sense in my Eyes.
Thanks a lot for it! :)

Note: I decided to use the free categories because the predefiened ones are too much in my oppion.
%%%

%%%Commited the free_categories.patch which makes more Sense in my Eyes. Thanks a lot for it! :) Note: I decided to use the free categories because the predefiened ones are too much in my oppion. %%%

Thomas Dinges commented

2010-03-13 01:21:56 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Thomas Dinges closed this issue

2010-03-13 01:21:56 +01:00

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Improved organisation of add-ons panel #21539