Permanently collapsing the “System” and “Volumes” dropdown menus #85290

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Amanda Santini · 2021-02-01T19:09:39+01:00

Amanda Santini commented

2021-02-01 19:09:39 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04.1 64-bit (up-to-date)
Graphics card: AMD RX 570 (using the headless install of their -PRO driver, so only the OpenCL stack, the rest is all Mesa)

Blender Version
Broken: 2.67b -> 2.9-Alpha
Worked: None, as far as I can remember

Short description of error
Whenever I need to open something (be it a file, texture or anything else), the "System" and "Volumes" dropdown menus occupy a huge portion of the screen, making it really annoying to work with my Favorites and Recent list, because every time I need to use them I also need to either collapse the menus at the top or scroll down to see the lists I want.
See the menus (in Yellow) here: https://i.imgur.com/JfrUNOO.png
All I care about is bellow them, in Blue (which is not properly displayed since they take a huge screen space).
There's no way of making these menus go away. I can't collapse them forever or make them go to the bottom of the list.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Open Blender
Click "Open"
Face the massively annoying menus
Try to collapse them and save as a default file
Fail
Working on a project, try to add anything to it (append something, or a texture)
The menus are there still
Fail to collapse the menus

Please add the possibility to save the state of the panel as we want them to be.

Regards,
Amanda

**System Information** Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04.1 64-bit (up-to-date) Graphics card: AMD RX 570 (using the headless install of their -PRO driver, so only the OpenCL stack, the rest is all Mesa) **Blender Version** Broken: 2.67b -> 2.9-Alpha Worked: None, as far as I can remember **Short description of error** Whenever I need to open something (be it a file, texture or anything else), the "System" and "Volumes" dropdown menus occupy a huge portion of the screen, making it really annoying to work with my Favorites and Recent list, because every time I need to use them I also need to either collapse the menus at the top or scroll down to see the lists I want. See the menus (in Yellow) here: https://i.imgur.com/JfrUNOO.png All I care about is bellow them, in Blue (which is not properly displayed since they take a huge screen space). There's no way of making these menus go away. I can't collapse them forever or make them go to the bottom of the list. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** - Open Blender - Click "Open" - Face the massively annoying menus - Try to collapse them and save as a default file - Fail - Working on a project, try to add anything to it (append something, or a texture) - The menus are there still - Fail to collapse the menus Please add the possibility to save the state of the panel as we want them to be. Regards, Amanda

Amanda Santini commented

2021-02-01 19:09:39 +01:00

Added subscriber: @AmandaSantini

Falk David commented

2021-02-01 20:34:10 +01:00

Added subscriber: @filedescriptor

Falk David commented

2021-02-01 20:34:10 +01:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Archived'

Falk David closed this issue

2021-02-01 20:34:10 +01:00

Falk David commented

2021-02-01 20:34:10 +01:00

Unfortunately, this is working as intended and has been reported before. It is classified as a limitation and will have to be further discussed by the UI design team.
Please keep in mind that we use a very narrow definition of what a bug is on the bug tracker. This is a feature that doesn't exist at the moment, but not a broken functionality.
Related tasks: #62725, #85052. (Information about collapsed panels is not stored just like window size.)

Unfortunately, this is working as intended and has been reported before. It is classified as a limitation and will have to be further discussed by the UI design team. Please keep in mind that we use a very narrow definition of what a bug is on the bug tracker. This is a feature that doesn't exist at the moment, but not a broken functionality. Related tasks: #62725, #85052. (Information about collapsed panels is not stored just like window size.)

Amanda Santini commented

2021-02-01 20:43:55 +01:00

In #85290#1105392, @filedescriptor wrote:
Unfortunately, this is working as intended and has been reported before. It is classified as a limitation and will have to be further discussed by the UI design team.
Please keep in mind that we use a very narrow definition of what a bug is on the bug tracker. This is a feature that doesn't exist at the moment, but not a broken functionality.
Related tasks: #62725, #85052. (Information about collapsed panels is not stored just like window size.)

Thank you for answering, Falk. I'll talk with the UI team.

> In #85290#1105392, @filedescriptor wrote: > Unfortunately, this is working as intended and has been reported before. It is classified as a limitation and will have to be further discussed by the UI design team. > Please keep in mind that we use a very narrow definition of what a bug is on the bug tracker. This is a feature that doesn't exist at the moment, but not a broken functionality. > Related tasks: #62725, #85052. (Information about collapsed panels is not stored just like window size.) Thank you for answering, Falk. I'll talk with the UI team.

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Permanently collapsing the “System” and “Volumes” dropdown menus #85290