With all due respect, I disagree totally with the request to add all button, even if they go nowhere. I think it is misleading, and a lot of useless work, to put in buttons that go nowhere. I would only agree if we were using an automated GUI testing tool that clicked on certain coordinates in executing the script. In that case, we would want to preserve those coordinates for later regression testing. If the goal of the release was to get feedback/work out UI placement and arrangement, cool, but that is not one of the goals of the release, afaik.
Users that see a button like to click it. Otherwise, you are introducing a decision point into the process, which is "Is this feature implemented in this beta?" and I would bet dollars to donuts they would not know. Hence, if a feature WAS supposed to be in there, but was broken, clicking the button with no response masks the error, as the user will assume it was not in the release. +1 spacebar and bb, however, I thought some future release will give users the ability to map whatever key to whatever function. ---------------- Sent by Roger Wickes for intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and contact Mr. Wickes immediately. ________________________________ From: Knapp <[email protected]> To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 2:49:42 AM Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] 2.5 release I know the theory and I also am part of a group on #blender that is using 2.5 now and filing bug reports. I still stick by what I said. One the other hand, if this is to be called beta0 then release as that but be sure that at least all the features have buttons, even if the buttons don't work yet. Many opinions are being formed now and a lot of that is based on new things that are there and old things that are not there (but I think will be on the final??). This leads me to the thought that having the UI/GUI finished even on a beta0 is very important. The buttons don't have to work but they must be there. As I provide help to new 2.5 users, the BIGGEST problem is that they can't find shift A and for me that space-bar habit dies hard! I am not so sure this is a good move. As one user said, why replace the most often used key with something that takes the 2 weakest fingers to do in some awkward move? It is not clear to me, yet, why we even need a command search tool. My auto BB key pressing will not die ether after more than 1 month of use. Do we really need to remap all this? I know it makes logical senses and might even be better for newbies but do we have proof? Everything else seems good, IMOHO. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Cherrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Open Source is built on early releases so the community can help to get > it working. > > http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
