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General Category - V.16 and Earlier => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Allan Chesney on October 16, 2007, 07:34:24 PM

Title: Reduce depth of settings
Post by: Allan Chesney on October 16, 2007, 07:34:24 PM
Can something be done to reduce the number of clicks needed to get to some settings?

For example:  It takes 7 clicks to be able to change the transparency or emissiveness of an ellement, or 6 click plus a double click midway, to change the colour or scale of a light. These options are too deep and many will not find them.  The need of a double click partway through the process to change the scale of the lights is not obvious and will result in very poor renderings when a balance between exterior and interior lighing is concerned for those who do not find it.  (see also related post on light balancing).

Allan
Title: Re: Reduce depth of settings
Post by: Doug.S on October 17, 2007, 04:48:38 PM
I agree and support this suggestion for change.

Not only are things sometimes hard to find...but remembering which seven clicks a few days later is not fun...and a few extra clicks may not seem like much but it is time consuming and mentally disruptive causing more time loss.

I'd rather have larger, more grouped/subset windows (you have some that work well),  than multiple layers deep.

Doug.S
Title: Think Orthogonal !!
Post by: Nik on October 18, 2007, 08:19:39 AM
After a decade, Windows *still* bugs me because of inconsistencies like that...

I could change them in XP but dare not, because I use several PCs and must keep their interface *consistently* inconsistent...