Print3D add-on: naming consistency
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Authored by Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) on Oct 21 2016, 8:27 PM.

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William Reynish (billreynish)
Brendon Murphy (meta-androcto)

Summary

Currently there is an issue with naming of Print3D (aka 3D Print Toolbox) add-on, it has there name variants which can be seen in different places of Blender UI:

3D Print Toolbox in add-on title in User Preferences.
3D-Print in Sidebar tab.
Print3D in Sidebar panel title, Adjust Last Operation menu, in operator search menu.

This patch will changes: 3D Print Toolbox to 3D-Print Toolbox and Print3D to 3D-Print.

After that there will be only two name variants:

3D-Print Toolbox full name in User Preferences.
3D-Print short name everywhere else.

That way it will be consistent across all Blender UI and users won't have trouble using operator search.

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Repository: rBA Blender Add-ons

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Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) updated this revision to Diff 7669.Oct 21 2016, 8:27 PM

Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) retitled this revision from to Print3D add-on: naming consistency.

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Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) set the repository for this revision to rBA Blender Add-ons.

Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) updated this revision to Diff 7671.Oct 21 2016, 10:07 PM

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Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) updated this object.Oct 23 2016, 2:33 PM

Campbell's request: change title from "Print3D" to "Print3D Toolbox".

Mikhail Rachinskiy (alm) updated this object.Nov 5 2016, 1:43 AM

I find reallt strange to go with "Print3D" (together).

@Julian Eisel (Severin) is there any rule on Blender's UI for those?

Don't think we have some written down rules for this anywhere, but "Print3D" is no good naming to be exposed in UI. Terms "3D Printing" or "3D Print" (depends on context) seem better to me.

In that case, would that be acceptable?

3D Print Toolbox for add-on's title and Tool Shelf panel title
3D Printing for Tool Shelf tab category
3D Print for Operator Popup Menu and Operator Redo panel

Then only Tool Shelf panel title and operator bl_label properties will be affected by this patch.

Update to the current codebase.
Use name 3D-Print

@Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) @Julian Eisel (Severin) @William Reynish (billreynish) Hi, I hope you won't mind me resurrecting this diff?
This time changes are less "radical" than before, the only thing that changes is the UI panel title that will be in-sync with tab name and operators names that can only be seen in search menu. The rest of the UI will not be affected.