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opened 2022-07-21 17:01:44 +02:00 by Julian Eisel · 4 comments
Julian Eisel commented 2022-07-21 17:01:44 +02:00
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Views were introduced to simplify and unify UIs with common functionality to display and interact with (possibly large) sets of data. More info:

The Asset Browser should be split off from the File Browser and the file-list backend for a number of important reasons. As part of that a grid view is being developed.

Only doing this and not doing this together with rewriting the File Browser UI raised some concerns for @mont29. So together with him it was decided that both should be looked at. At some point we have to prioritize addressing technical debt too, and not just work on shiny new things. Otherwise we let the code paths diverge significantly, with no plans to address the effective duplication. So both browsers should be ported short-term.

Thumbnail display mode Todo's:

    • Use grid view for drawing thumbnail mode (initial work done in 3a97c4056f)
    • Selection in views (click-select, box select, walk select, etc.)
    • Double click to open
    • Dragging files
    • Context menu
    • Renaming
    • Remove old code (selection, operators, drawing, ...)
    • "Composed" icons as buttons/widgets image.png Current code just draws them in-place, but views use the button/widget system. Alternatively, an overlapping layout can be used, but then there needs to be a way to get the exact preview image size for
    • Superimposed file type icon for previews. Similar problem to the above.

The other display modes should also be ported to views, since otherwise interaction code (selection, renaming, context menu, ...) would have to be duplicated. So:

    • Add new table view
    • Use for Vertical List display mode
    • Use for Horizontal List display mode

We could add an experimental feature flag for this, so development can happen mostly in master. This way the legacy code can stay for a while.

Views were introduced to simplify and unify UIs with common functionality to display and interact with (possibly large) sets of data. More info: - https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/Views - #98560 (UI Views: General ToDo's) - #95653 (Split Asset and File Browser frontend, implement Grid View) The Asset Browser should be split off from the File Browser and the file-list backend for a number of important reasons. As part of that a grid view is being developed. Only doing this and not doing this together with rewriting the File Browser UI raised some concerns for @mont29. So together with him it was decided that both should be looked at. At some point we have to prioritize addressing technical debt too, and not just work on shiny new things. Otherwise we let the code paths diverge significantly, with no plans to address the effective duplication. So both browsers should be ported short-term. ---- **Thumbnail display mode Todo's:** - - [ ] Use grid view for drawing thumbnail mode (initial work done in 3a97c4056f) - - [ ] Selection in views (click-select, box select, walk select, etc.) - - [ ] Double click to open - - [ ] Dragging files - - [ ] Context menu - - [ ] Renaming - - [ ] Remove old code (selection, operators, drawing, ...) - - [ ] "Composed" icons as buttons/widgets ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13306253/image.png) Current code just draws them in-place, but views use the button/widget system. Alternatively, an overlapping layout can be used, but then there needs to be a way to get the exact preview image size for - - [ ] Superimposed file type icon for previews. Similar problem to the above. The other display modes should also be ported to views, since otherwise interaction code (selection, renaming, context menu, ...) would have to be duplicated. So: - - [ ] Add new table view - - [ ] Use for Vertical List display mode - - [ ] Use for Horizontal List display mode We could add an experimental feature flag for this, so development can happen mostly in master. This way the legacy code can stay for a while.
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Pratik Borhade commented 2023-05-26 06:35:43 +02:00
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Guess this is a design/todo task. Will move this out of triaging list.

Guess this is a design/todo task. Will move this out of triaging list.
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