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Tool tabs and Old Addons living in perfect harmony #38999

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opened 2014-03-06 17:10:57 +01:00 by Sidney Moraes Jr · 34 comments
Sidney Moraes Jr commented 2014-03-06 17:10:57 +01:00
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The Tool tabs are amazing, but the old or uncategorized addons, keeps appearing on every tab and making a mess and tabs useless.
I would suggest a simple fix for it: to create a tab for those addons, named custom, general, old, miscellaneous, others or something else. So even old scripts would work great until they migrate to the new UI tags and don't mess with the new ones. I believe its almost impossible to all addons being converted soon, so it sounds a good way to keep the toolbar organized.

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Open Blender 2.70 RC1 and import previous settings to get all the addons running

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Hello, **System Information** Windows **Blender Version** Broken: (example: 2.70 RC1 19f7f9a, see splash screen) Worked: (optional) **Short description of error** The Tool tabs are amazing, but the old or uncategorized addons, keeps appearing on every tab and making a mess and tabs useless. I would suggest a simple fix for it: to create a tab for those addons, named custom, general, old, miscellaneous, others or something else. So even old scripts would work great until they migrate to the new UI tags and don't mess with the new ones. I believe its almost impossible to all addons being converted soon, so it sounds a good way to keep the toolbar organized. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Open Blender 2.70 RC1 and import previous settings to get all the addons running Cheers
Sidney Moraes Jr commented 2014-03-06 17:10:57 +01:00
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blender-admin commented 2014-03-06 17:10:57 +01:00
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blender/blender-addons#39385 was marked as duplicate of this issue

blender/blender-addons#39385 was marked as duplicate of this issue
blender-admin commented 2014-03-06 17:10:57 +01:00
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#39179 was marked as duplicate of this issue

#39179 was marked as duplicate of this issue
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#39544 was marked as duplicate of this issue

#39544 was marked as duplicate of this issue
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blender/blender-addons#39024 was marked as duplicate of this issue

blender/blender-addons#39024 was marked as duplicate of this issue
Campbell Barton was assigned by Bastien Montagne 2014-03-06 19:16:12 +01:00
Bastien Montagne commented 2014-03-06 19:16:12 +01:00
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Bastien Montagne commented 2014-03-07 16:06:35 +01:00
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◀ Merged tasks: blender/blender-addons#39024.

◀ Merged tasks: blender/blender-addons#39024.
Yousef Harfoush commented 2014-03-09 00:04:00 +01:00
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Yousef Harfoush commented 2014-03-09 00:04:00 +01:00
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+1
i was gonna propose this, switching between tabs gets confusing with the same add-ons settings appear on each one.

+1 i was gonna propose this, switching between tabs gets confusing with the same add-ons settings appear on each one.
Paweł Łyczkowski commented 2014-03-12 21:09:06 +01:00
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Bastien Montagne commented 2014-03-14 12:01:44 +01:00
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◀ Merged tasks: #39179.

◀ Merged tasks: #39179.
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◀ Merged tasks: blender/blender-addons#39385.

◀ Merged tasks: blender/blender-addons#39385.
Bartosz Moniewski commented 2014-03-26 09:54:03 +01:00
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Bartosz Moniewski commented 2014-03-26 10:05:23 +01:00
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I think that is best solution for this problem. For clarity this tab can be just named "Addons" so non experienced users will see easily where their plugins are. Name "Custom" suggest that this tab is somehow created by user, while this can be awesome functionality to have this is beyond of this proposal.

Another benefit for this solution is choice for developers if they really want custom tab for theirs addons or not. Some script are just so small that don't need whole tab. Many addons are just single button that starts operation that can be tweaked in Redo panel, no need to waste vertical space for them.

+1 I think that is best solution for this problem. For clarity this tab can be just named "Addons" so non experienced users will see easily where their plugins are. Name "Custom" suggest that this tab is somehow created by user, while this can be awesome functionality to have this is beyond of this proposal. Another benefit for this solution is choice for developers if they really want custom tab for theirs addons or not. Some script are just so small that don't need whole tab. Many addons are just single button that starts operation that can be tweaked in Redo panel, no need to waste vertical space for them.
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◀ Merged tasks: #39544.

◀ Merged tasks: #39544.
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alekulyn commented 2014-04-05 10:15:47 +02:00
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I have an idea I'd like to get out. How about defining a new addon preferences field called "Tab" (or something else intuitive) for addons that are in the contrib folder or installed? That is, just not ones that are maintained. This field is, by default, empty, but can be initialized by the addon through bl_category or overwritten by the user's choice.

I have an idea I'd like to get out. How about defining a new addon preferences field called "Tab" (or something else intuitive) for addons that are in the contrib folder or installed? That is, just not ones that are maintained. This field is, by default, empty, but can be initialized by the addon through bl_category or overwritten by the user's choice.
Ghost commented 2014-08-15 20:49:06 +02:00
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Ghost commented 2014-08-15 20:49:06 +02:00
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You mean adding from preferences addons to custom tabs? Sounds good

You mean adding from preferences addons to custom tabs? Sounds good
Yousef Harfoush commented 2014-08-16 01:25:46 +02:00
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are in the contrib folder or installed?

that would be painful for users and devs. too, it is already annoying when trying to enable it from the preferences especially the external ones with it's toggle button.

a unified non-categorized tab for the rest of the addons is simple solution and enough as suggested.

so what is taking so long to get a decision here!, if the are any problems with this solution, moderators or UI design guys should act, it has been annoying for many -see how much threads been merged here -

also i don't see it is much of a coding issue, although i'm not suggesting that anyone to dedicate time to it, but taking the decision is the important/hardest step.

``` are in the contrib folder or installed? ``` that would be painful for users and devs. too, it is already annoying when trying to enable it from the preferences especially the external ones with it's toggle button. a unified non-categorized tab for the rest of the addons is simple solution and enough as suggested. so what is taking so long to get a decision here!, if the are any problems with this solution, moderators or UI design guys should act, it has been annoying for many -see how much threads been merged here - also i don't see it is much of a coding issue, although i'm not suggesting that anyone to dedicate time to it, but taking the decision is the important/hardest step.
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Bastien Montagne commented 2014-08-26 14:44:31 +02:00
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Stealing, this should have been fixed months ago… :/

Stealing, this should have been fixed months ago… :/
blender-admin commented 2014-08-26 14:49:55 +02:00
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This issue was referenced by 3d6ed42c3b

This issue was referenced by 3d6ed42c3bd8a36fca074457271712d56bd4c8e5
Bastien Montagne commented 2014-08-26 14:51:17 +02:00
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Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

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Closed by commit 3d6ed42c3b.

Closed by commit 3d6ed42c3b.
Jonathan Williamson commented 2014-08-27 18:22:50 +02:00
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Jonathan Williamson commented 2014-08-27 18:22:50 +02:00
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Good solution @mont29!

Good solution @mont29!
Yousef Harfoush commented 2014-08-28 01:11:26 +02:00
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@mont29: thanks man, at last more than 50% of tabs clutter just vanished.

@mont29: thanks man, at last more than 50% of tabs clutter just vanished.
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