Imho, "alphabetical" means not quite ideal for i18n UI display. In fact, the current list already got well-classified if looking closely a bit. However, if there really needs to be any goal for quick look-ups, I think a better solution would probably be trying to "stress" the role of icons, since images usually are more easier to identify than texts, everyone likes them. I mean, just imagine a software without icons :). In orther words, I mean it would be to* scale the default size of those icons a little bit* for the more eaiser and quick identification, probably.
Second solution: Probably it could be considered to try *adding Shortcuts display* for them, I mean the current Shift + F1 to F12 thing. I know it's the most simple "trick" for all experts, which is well-known for sure. However, for new users? I doubt so. So, it may protencially suggestting those who want to use as many shorcuts as they can (and will) a more direct way to switch among editors. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Harley Acheson <harley.ache...@gmail.com>wrote: > I still think this has nothing to do with the list being too large. > > The order of the items on the list changes depending on whether > it pops up or down, so we can't just remember them visually by > location. And the order is non-visual so we have to do a linear > scan instead of a binary one. We have to read almost all the > items almost all the damn time. > > If we didn't do the swap, we could have any arrangement of > items and it wouldn't matter much because they would stay > in the same place. "3D View" would always be at the top, and > the item that is 1/3 down would always be there. > > Make the order *alphabetical* and we can then do a binary > scan to find the items instead of a linear one. Combine the two > and we could make the list much longer and we could still find > items in it faster that we do now. > > Cheers, Harley > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Leon Cheung a.k.a. 老猫 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers