Now I see the point. I have those problems with my scripts. You can already
put text over your icons but 4 letters aren't enough for some cases so I
guess it should be easily fixed by adding a width option to the shelves
icons, and a 2 lines text option.
Months later after a non-Maya project, and I can't remember what were those
3 or 4 letter icons on my shelf :D
Martin
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <
j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> I think what he is trying to say is what was a common complaint over a
> decade ago. Some people like shelves, but don't like the icons. They want
> the icons in the shelves to be replaceable with TEXT. Just like some people
> see art as 3d and others see art as 2d, for some people deciphering
> complicated icons is time consuming compared to reading. Too many of the
> icons are too similar. Further old people who depend on glasses might not
> be able to see every miniscule 3-5 pixel differentiation in some icons that
> are similar. The argument is not to replace the shelve and use menu
> commands, but to replace the icon on the shelf with text on the shelf.
>
> --
> Joey Ponthieux
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> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
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> Subject: Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5
>
> > Text not icons
>
> I don't understand this one. Which part of the UI is this a problem with
> that it isn't in Softimage?
>
> You have the shelf at the top of the UI, but that's just shortcuts to
> things that are already in the menu. Hide the shelf if you don't want it
> (there is also a shelf in XSI)
>
> For the viewport ("panel") toolbar, if you don't use it, you can hide it
> (shift+ctrl+m) - these are all shortcuts to the items also in the menu. It
> certainly would not make sense to turn that into text buttons, although
> they should be generally fewer and bigger buttons there.
>
> But again these are shotcuts to the text menus. Everything is menu-based
> in Maya.
>
>
