UI Experiment: Optional Layout for ED_workspace_status_text #120382

Harley Acheson · 2024-04-07T20:50:23+02:00

Harley Acheson commented

2024-04-07 20:50:23 +02:00

Experiment in allowing current uses of ED_workspace_status_text, which
draws simple text to the status bar, to give a callback to allow
complex layout features.

There is one demonstration included. Currently while having a dropdown menu open you see the following on the Status Bar:

With the PR doing the same results in this:

Not implying that I would put this specific information, in this format and in this order, here. It is just an easy demonstration.

Experiment in allowing current uses of ED_workspace_status_text, which draws simple text to the status bar, to give a callback to allow complex layout features. --- There is one demonstration included. Currently while having a dropdown menu open you see the following on the Status Bar: ![image](/attachments/af005ffe-d9aa-4e31-b517-03c59584bfa6) With the PR doing the same results in this: ![image](/attachments/995267b8-1df9-4716-ad47-bf5a31ef310e) Not implying that I would put this specific information, in this format and in this order, here. It is just an easy demonstration.

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Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2024-04-07 20:50:34 +02:00

60abb16c6d UI Experiment: Optional Layout for ED_workspace_status_text

Experiment in allowing current uses of ED_workspace_status_text, which
draws simple text to the status bar, to give a callback to allow
complex layout features.

Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2024-04-07 20:51:17 +02:00

Pablo Vazquez commented

2024-04-11 12:50:22 +02:00

Awesome! This is something we wanted to have since the moment Menu Search was introduced.

I don't think we need anything else other than [ _ ] Search. If we add every possible action it's just overwhelming.

Actions that are expected (and consistent) across the UI can be left out, such as:

Select
Context Menu
Keyboard Navigation

There is also the case for accelerator keys, but that's already communicated by underlining which is a fairly standard practice.

So just replacing "Press spacebar to search..." by the actual icon helps a lot for consistency. It's great that we can add more to this layout in the future though. Thanks!

Awesome! This is something we wanted to have since the moment Menu Search was introduced. I don't think we need anything else other than `[ _ ] Search`. If we add every possible action it's just overwhelming. Actions that are expected (and consistent) across the UI can be left out, such as: * Select * Context Menu * Keyboard Navigation There is also the case for accelerator keys, but that's already communicated by underlining which is a fairly standard practice. So just replacing "Press spacebar to search..." by the actual icon helps a lot for consistency. It's great that we can add more to this layout in the future though. Thanks!

Harley Acheson commented

2024-04-12 17:24:55 +02:00

Awesome that this result is what we like.

However, this implementation does not work at all. When testing for more complex uses this callback approach falls apart. Closing. Will have to think of another way of getting there.

Awesome that this result is what we like. However, this implementation does not work at all. When testing for more complex uses this callback approach falls apart. Closing. Will have to think of another way of getting there.

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2024-04-12 17:24:57 +02:00

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UI Experiment: Optional Layout for ED_workspace_status_text #120382

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