Hola, I must admit I also had mixed feelings when seeing this proposal, especially with bright and distracting icons, but after using the latest version for a while I think it is very nice. I don't mistake the new icons for buttons now that they are toned down, and it is not distracting like I was afraid of.
This is coming from someone who liked the pure text for it's "directness", but I actually feel the icons help me get a quicker overview in all modes/objects. And it looks much more friendly ;) If the point was to interact with these icons I would be totally against it, same if I had to activate something (panel, dropdown) to get my info. It need to be seen with a quick glance, and this patch helps with that, IMO. Best regards and happy holidays, Ejner Fergo On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tobias Oelgarte < tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As long icons aren't disturbing, for example extremely colorful, i > prefer them often over text. So i would propose to use some more plain > looking icons, even so this icons are already quite plain. The blender > icon itself could be deemed as more disturbing and it displays are > rather useless number behind it. I see this number every time in the > splash screen, but more importantly i usually need to know the revision > number instead of the version number. > > If we want to be consistent, following your guideline, then we should > remove this icon as well. I know it is the famous blender icon... :P > > Considering the overall design, i have to say that anything goes, as > long it does not stand out or conflicts heavily with the rest of an > interface. I for my part would really like to get rid of this hard to > read text line and would not consider stats as buttons as long they have > no button-border or react to the mouse while hovering over them. > > Greetings from > Tobias Oelgarte > > Am 23.12.2012 11:35, schrieb Ton Roosendaal: > > Hi, > > > > Even though it looks very nice at first sight, I think we should try to > keep the visual language of a UI consistent. Icons are UI elements, widgets > meant to provide user interaction with data or tools. > > > > Icons are also little eyecatchers, and should best be silent and > consistent (and not distract by changing position or shapes all the time). > For that reason the current text string is nice noise-free. > > > > I can see the issue of improving the way we provide statistics. We also > need better ways to communicate all kinds of states in Blender (which is > abusively printed over the 3d window even in cases). > > > > In some other programs, I've seen small statistic panels, that provide a > useful input for statistic options as well. Might be a better solution to > explore this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Ton- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org > > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands > > > > On 23 Dec, 2012, at 2:02, Harley Acheson wrote: > > > >> Hello again, > >> > >> I have updated the > >> patch< > http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=33573&group_id=9&atid=127 > >with > >> lots of changes resulting from all the > >> discussions on the BlenderArtists > >> thread< > http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?275390-Simplified-Header-Statistics-Display > >. > >> The response has been > >> overwhelmingly positive. > >> > >> If you just want a quick peek at what it looks like, the following image > >> shows it off very well: > >> > http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/33573/23279/StatisticsIcons.png > >> > >> Harley > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> Bf-committers@blender.org > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers