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Narrow button menu buttons.
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Blender Version
Broken:
Any blender 2.8.

Short description of error
These buttons

appear too narrow/don't fit/Don't look right in the Tool tab on default width of the properties editor.
Recommendation: Turn this button menu into a drop-down menu.
Actually, maybe a nice solution would be to automatically turn all of these kind of menus into drop down menus if the panel is not wide enough, and turn all drop down menus into button selection menus if the panel is wide enough. So, if the user changes the width of the panel, the menu type is switched.

Event Timeline

Paulius Mscichauskas (freemind) created this task.Dec 20 2018, 9:03 AM
William Reynish (billreynish) added subscribers: Campbell Barton (campbellbarton), William Reynish (billreynish).Dec 20 2018, 9:34 AM

The issue with solving the specific case in a naive way here is that it takes the same UI code that's also in the top bar and organizes controls in a stack. So if we would turn this into a menu manually, it would be a menu both places.

To solve this properly. as you say, it should be solved in a generic way so that any enum can either be expanded or a menu depending on the size of the enum cells. If it were really smart, it could do this when text starts to be cut off. This may not be trivial to do though. @Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) Thoughts on this?

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.Jan 23 2019, 5:43 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added subscribers: Brecht Van Lommel (brecht), Sebastian Parborg (zeddb).

@Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) should I assign this to someone?

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 23 2019, 5:52 PM

No, it's just a low priority UI thing that could be improved.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.May 23 2019, 3:40 AM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) claimed this task.

No longer an issue with the current UI layout.