Quick Favorites Pie Menu
Copied proposal from devtalk.blender.org/t/quick-favorites-pie-menu/1459
This is just an idea for Quick Favorites Menu.
Menu is useful when you have only small amount of items. With more items it becomes unclear where is the one you need. scroll
You have to scroll over to find the right one. It has no system and no order.
However, with Pie menu we could do some filtering and organize items. blender_quick_feature
For example under the MESH we have - Transform, mirror, Snap, etc. This is filtering for user who wants to find something quickly. So in Pie menu we know our item is under MESH. When we come closer with mouse cursor, the closest items became bigger.
8 Comments
i would rather have sub categories for the quick fav menu than pie menu
Its a nice looking design the way the ui scales up and how the labels have a bigger font size. Though I think pei menus speed only comes into play when you can basically gesture in a direction which really maxes out around 8 options before its the same thing as the original menu. Maya solves this by having sub pie menus.
@wondraknathan:
Idea is to better organize favorites. I have no objections if there is better way to visual categories. As Pablo said, sub-menus are slower and more complicated and I agree with him. Maya does not have favorites but huge menu on space bar. I have heard, they have patent for this feature (may not be true).
In my opinion, it is too cluttered. Sub pies maybe, but one gigantic pie is way too much.
why do you want to put everything inside a menu ? its madness
Q menu is not the ultimate solution, I guess it is just a temporary solution for developer to collect user data. Quick menu is not quick if there is too many items, so I don't approve of the hierarchical quick menu. I try not to use the Q menu, what I need more is a custom pie menu base on more other keys. But this suggestion is really cool, and I believe it is really useful for people who rely on quick menu.Maybe we only need two kinds of pie menus, the faster traditional pie menu and your pie menu with more capacity. We will no longer need the traditional list menu. I borrowed your idea in here
even more space saving menu is in 3ds max or maya
Upvoted. I also second Wondranathan's pie sub-menus suggestion.