Reduce the width size and align the URL with the UIList.
Adjustments that would still be welcome:
* Make URL label color the same as Advanced.
* Waste less space between URL and the [________________].
New name: Extensions
Now that we are gettting closer to a launch I need to refer to this
feature in the documentation. As such it was time to bring it up to
date.
I'm also pointing the experimental feature to the task where the Alpha
launch is being coordinated (#117286). Once that task is all ticked we
will likely be ready to go out of experimental.
Implements the design from #116067.
The socket type is called "Matrix" but it is often referred to as "Transform"
when that's what it is semantically. The attribute type is "4x4 Matrix" since
that's a lower level choice. Currently matrix sockets are always passed
around internally as `float4x4`, but that can be optimized in the future
when smaller types would give the same behavior.
A new "Matrix" utilities category has the following set of initial nodes"
- **Combine Transform**
- **Separate Transform**
- **Multiply Matrices**
- **Transform Direction**
- **Transform Vector**
- **Invert Matrix**
- **Transpose Matrix**
The nodes and socket type are behind an experimental flag for now,
which will give us time to make sure it's the right set of initial nodes.
The viewer node overlay doesn't support matrices-- they aren't supported
for rendering in general. They also aren't supported in the modifier interface
currently. But they are supported in the spreadsheet, where the value is
displayed in a tooltip.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116166
Being able to change a remote repository to a local one or vice-versa
seems obscure enough to disable entirely although it can still be done
from the Python API.
Add icons to the UI-list to differentiate local/remote repositories.
Ref #117840.
- Adding new repositories now differentiates between "Online" & "Local"
where adding a local repository doesn't prompt for a URL.
- Support removing repositories and their files (uses confirmation
defaulting to "Cancel" to avoid accidents).
- Show an error icon next to repositories that have invalid settings,
these repositories are now ignored until the settings are corrected,
required fields are highlighted red when they're unset & required.
- Rename "directory" to "custom_directory" since an automatic path is
used when not set - created in the users scripts directory.
- Use toggles for custom-directory & remote URL instead of relying on
the value to be left an empty string for alternative behavior.
- Rename info to bl_info, to avoid confusion with extensions manifest,
which should eventually be accessible in a similar way.
- Rename module_name to addon_module_name to avoid confusion with
extension repositories name-spaced modules.
- Clarify naming for TOML manifest.
Part of changes proposed in #117285.
Unfortunately layout panels aren't supported in popovers, so this has
been worked around using a kludge that stores the expanded state as a
class member, toggled via "wm.context_toggle".
Package management has been moved into addons_contrib so the addon
can be enabled when enabling extension repositories.
This means users can test extension repositories without having to
install a separate add-on.
Additional work is still needed with the server before this is ready
for general testing though.
Part of #117286.
- Group Extensions with Add-ons in preferences.
- No more official/community/testing, install and refresh.
- No more showing category on the headers
(there are no categories for extensions).
Changes proposed in #117285.
Splits the flag `..._FLAG_INSERTNEEDED` between autokey and
manual keying. The fact that this flag was shared between the two
systems has been the cause of issues in the past. It wouldn't
let you insert a keyframe even though you explicitly used an operator
to do so.
In order to be clearer what options are used where, the user preferences
have been reordered.
By default "Only Insert Needed" will be enabled for auto-keying, but not for manual keying.
The versioning code will enable both if it was enabled previously.
# Code side changes
The keying system has flags that define the behavior
when keys are inserted. Some of those flags were shared
between keying and auto-keying. Some were only used for
auto-keying.
To clarify that, prefix flags that used exclusively in one or the other
system with `AUTOKEY`/`MANUALKEY`
Also the flag name on the user preferences and the tool settings was renamed.
Previously it was called `autokey_flag`. To indicated that it is not only used
for autokeying, rename it `keying_flag`.
Fixes: #73773
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115525
This made it seem as if it wasn't possible to load from saved
preferences when running Blender with '--factory-startup'.
This isn't a perfect solution as loading the saved
preferences doesn't clear `bpy.app.factory_startup`.
Even so, it's better not to gray out a menu item which is functional.
The previous commit introduced a new `RPT_()` macro to translate
strings which are not tooltips or regular interface elements, but
longer reports or statuses.
This commit uses the new macro to translate many strings all over the
UI.
Most of it is a simple replace from `TIP_()` or `IFACE_()` to
`RPT_()`, but there are some additional changes:
- A few translations inside `BKE_report()` are removed altogether
because they are already handled by the translation system.
- Messages inside `UI_but_disable()` are no longer translated
manually, but they are handled by a new regex in the translation
system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Translation of the UI is currently split into 3 preferences:
interface, tooltips, and new data. The distinction between interface
and tooltips is currently unclear as tooltips also include a lot of
messages not displayed in the actual tooltips on mouse hover.
These include reports to the Info Editor, information in editor
headers and footers, and statuses in panels.
In order to limit the use of `TIP_()` to actual tooltips, this commit
introduces a new preference for this extra information: "Reports".
New translation macros are introduced: `RPT_()` and `CTX_RPT_()`, as
well as their equivalent for the Python API, `pgettext_rpt_()`, to be
imported as `rpt_()`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
When animators want to key something in the viewport,
the code needs to know *which properties* should be keyed of that selected thing.
So far that was done with keying sets, and a pop-up that let's
you choose the keying set to use. You can get rid of the popup by
choosing a keying set ahead of time. But that is also not always desirable.
That pop-up is quite confusing and gives way too many options.
To simplify this process this PR adds a User Preference option to choose one or more of:
* Location
* Rotation
* Scale
* Rotation Mode
* Custom Properties
Now whenever the `I` key is pressed in the viewport,
and no keying set is enabled, it reads the preferences for which channels to insert.
# User Facing changes
* The popup will not be shown when pressing the hotkey,
but you can still explicitly use keying sets by going to the menu
* Which channels are keyed is defined by a User Preference setting under animation
* when a keying set is used explicitly, the User Preference settings are ignored
Part of #113278
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113504
Extract:
- "Attribute", when creating a new attribute with
`GEOMETRY_OT_attribute_add()`: make the default name in the operator
a null string, and set it to "Attribute" translated inside an invoke
method instead.
- Also for new attributes, from `BKE_id_attribute_calc_unique_name()`,
for instance to create a default vertex color layer when going into
Vertex Paint mode: use `DATA_()` instead of `IFACE_()`, since it
represents user data.
Disambiguate:
- "Weight" can be the thickness of font glyphs.
- "Mark as Asset" and "Clear Asset" are operator names already
extracted using the Operator context. They were recently added to a
manual translation in the UI, but the existing one can be reused.
- "Second" as a time unit in the context of frame snapping.
Some messages reported by Satoshi Yamasaki in #43295.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114159
Move "Extensions Repositories" panel from FilePaths to Extensions.
Temporary change until a design is agreed on, to make it easier to test
repos while developing without going back and forth between sections.
Separate user configuration of subpixel antialiasing from the hinting
options. For example, this allows turning this on while hinting is
"None", or off when hinting is "Full".
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113027
The goal is to make the search faster to use by dynamically adapting to the user.
This can be achieved using the simple but common approach of showing recently
selected items at the top. Note, that the "matching score" between the query and
each search item still has precedence when determining the order. So the last used
item is only at the top, if there is no other search item that matches the query better.
Besides making the search generally faster to use, my hope is that this can also
reduce the need for manually weighting search items in some places. This is
because while the ordering might not be perfect the first time, it will always be
once the user selected the element that should be at the top once.
This patch includes:
* Support for taking recent searches into account in string searching.
* Keep track of a global list of recent searches.
* Store recent searches on disk similar to recently opened files.
* A new setting in the user preferences that allows disabling the functionality.
This can be used if deterministic key strokes are required, e.g. for automated tests.
In the future this could be improved in different ways:
* Add some kind of separator in the search list to indicate which elements are at
the top because they have been used recently.
* Store the recent search items per search, instead of in a global list. This way
it could adapt to the user even better.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110828
Small style and layout tweaks of some tabs in Preferences.
Mainly inline styling for compact layouts, grouping labels and
adding icons where needed.
Purposely leaving aside complex areas such as Themes,
Add-ons, or Keymap. They require larger design decisions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112393
* Align similar settings in the same column.
* Remove redundant words from similar setting labels.
* Use two-column flow for Collection and Strip colors.
* In Bone Color Sets:
* align column for a more compact layout
* Rename "Select" label to "Selected", likely a typo.
This way items like Menu, Menu Item, Menu Back, are together.
And overall easier to find what we are looking for.
Also renames "Menu Back" to "Menu Background".
