User Interface Module Meeting

# User Interface Module Meeting Regular [User Interface module](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/wiki/Module:%20User%20Interface) meeting for planning and coordination. Next meeting on October 10th, 2023. ## Attendees * Dalai Felinto * Hans Goudey * Harley Acheson * Leon Schittek * Pablo Vazquez * Thomas Dinges ## Merged Since Last Meeting * [UI: Change menu icons of single-choice enums to radio buttons #111796](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111796) * [Keymap: Add Numpad Return to create newline in Text object edit mode #112277](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112277) * [UI: Change Order of Lists in File Browser Sidebar #112114](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112114) * [UI: Allow Integer Thumbnail Size Range #105815](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105815) * [UI: Theme: Allow transparency when editing text in widgets #112090](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112090) * [ UI: Viewport: Split object/mode overlays into its own popover #112156](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112156) * [Fix #112374: loading reference/background images filters out movies #112378](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112378) * [Fix #112032: Theme: Wrong colors editing list items](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112032) * [Fix: Show modal keymap for operators called inside macros #108027](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108027) * [Support for custom tooltips](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105905) * [UI: Window Title With Version #111998](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111998) * [BLF: Slant Angle Correction #112483](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112483) * [BLF: Embolden Correction & Comments #112592](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112592) * [UI: Rename Eevee to EEVEE in labels/tooltips #112501](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112501) * [ Keymap: Add shortcut to open Preferences](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/86f659ad96933dfc32b7d1432edceb2895007e41) * [UI: Minor layout and style adjustments in Preferences #112393](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112393) * [BLF: Subpixel Positioning, Anti-aliasing, Hinting #105441](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105441) * [UI: Replace UI Font with Inter Regular v3.19 #112603](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112603) * [Improved Console Text Operations #108626](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108626) * [Fix: Changing theme color for recent additions doesn't save #112615](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112615) * [Fix: UI: Don't show padding buttons in menus #112731](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112731) * [UI: Remove File Browser "small_size" Feature #112696](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112696) * [UI: Discrete Thumbnail Sizes for Menus #112455](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112455) * [Fix #112736: Don't do Subpixel AA if not Antialised #112759](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112759) * [Fix #112650: UI: Missing Header Status in Node Editor after Turning off Auto-offset #112657](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112657) * [UI: Inter with Features ss01, ss02, and tnum #112795](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112795) * [UI: Inter Font with regular (non-slashed) zero #112819](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112819) * [UI: Remove redundant "Context Menu" in menu titles #112662](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112662) * [UI: Rename and put Reset Recent to a menu #112853](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112853) * [Splash: Changes to links and labels #112741](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112741) ## 4.0 issues * [Search Menu / UI: Hint about "Type to Search" in add menus](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112584) * A "Type to Search" item in some menus for clarity is problematic. * Use accelerator ("Type to Search ...") only in the Add menus that are called from a shortcut. * The search works better than accelerator keys for most menus that are larger than a few items. * It may be better to add an option to user preferences for type to search in *all* menus or not at all. * Agreement * Add the enum preference (accelerator keys or type to search) in the "Menus" panel of the interface settings. * The preference applies to all menus. * Remove the "SEARCH_ON_KEY_PRESS" configuration for specific menu types * By default, the value is "type to search" * [Node tools](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/101778) * Unassigned Menu: The current proposal mixes local data-blocks (modifiers) and assets that have no catalogs. * This seems like a good compromise. * This is also unrelated to node-tools since even Modifiers would benefit from it. * As far as the UI meeting is concerned this can go into 4.0. * For the release it would need a demo file with node-based tools. * [Splash screen re-design](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111123) * Mostly discussion about icons and arrangement of buttons, choosing between some mockups in the PR comments. * Pablo will remake the design. * [UI Input Placeholders](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112104) * There is agreement on the design, but needs final technical review. * Hans will review it, and leave optimization for after bcon3. * [Inter Font Tweaking #112748](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112748) * There are issues with some characters, to be addressed. * Pablo wants to have a larger size for default as part of the theme tweaks. * He will work on the details and have it in main. * [UI: Change Overlay Text Size with Label Text Style #112875](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112875) * Great patch but to change every text it is too big of a change this close to a release. * For now the patch will only tackle Overlay text. * [UI: Highlight Selected Item in View3D Mode Menu](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112058) * Agree, although it is not pretty. * It can go in bcon3 since it is a fix. * [UI: Improve Mesh Edge Highlighting #111431](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111431) * There are still a few too many open questions to get this into 4.0. * We can move forward with this in 4.1, since Pablo has some other planned changes to the edit mode theme for that release anyway. * [Snap icons](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109387) * The overall feedback from devtalk was non-conclusive. * In this case, Dalai argues that better to stick the [original proposal](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107054) (so called "industry standard"). He also acknowledges that he is biased since he likes those icons. * For the records, some issues with the current solution: * Icons are rotated (to follow normals). * Their size is not consistent (the face icons are much larger than the others). * Three options * Tweak the current minimal set * Face is quite large, and the line often doesn't show up * Revert to 3.6 state * Change to "industry standard" icons * Use icons from "Snap To" menu in snapping popover * Dalai will talk to Germano to propose bring back the design. * Dalai is fully aware that this is not an all-hands on board design, but he is willing to own that decision. * He was also (self-)appointed as the commissioner of the [Snapping & precision modelling improvement](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/73993) task. As such he is comfortable making this call (and hope people respect the role for a decision that will not be unanimous anyways). ## 4.1 and Beyond * [UI: File Browser Display Narrowing #112464](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112464) * [UI: Configurable UI Variable Text Styles #112454](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112454) * [Fix 72093: Collapse Wide Enum Lists to One Column #105386](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105386) * [UI: Dynamic File Browser Tooltips #104547](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104547) * [UI: Improved Operator Confirmations #104670](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104670) * [UI: Improved Window Titles #111495](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111495)