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  • Published 20 Jul 2018

Little suggestion on split and join window

My suggestion is at the end, vote if you think it's a good idea, first let's see how this works. For now, as far as I know. There are two ways to split or join windows

left click window corner :

When reaching the corner of a window, the cursor become a cross, then user will drag out new window

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or an arrow will appear to decide which direction to collapse to

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Right click window border :

Right click the border of a window and choose between 2 options, a line will appear if split area is chosen, the line will be used to split the window

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And join area will be similar to left click drag corner

My thoughts and suggestion:

In 2.8 every window area look much better. But when it comes to click the corner, it's rather easy to misclick some buttons around the corner. Also in my opinion as a newbie blender user, join or split windows from a corner is not very self-explanatory since the corner can go any direction.

So my suggestion is to make use of the right click but not just to show 2 options as before. We can right click the border of a window and drag to join or split just like how left click and dragging corner works. This way users have a nature idea which way the window will go, it's either up down or left right since you are moving the border. Also there won't be any misclick of buttons.

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Development Status: Open

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1to3fall5
20 Jul 2018

2 Comments

What if you right click to create the parallel split from the clicked border (like 1to3fall5 described above), and add the control key to merge instead...

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1to3fall5 Author

@ivo.vanderlans: Oh, you mean instead of just use the right click to do both join and split, you make right click do split but ctrl right click to merge? It could be good and less confuse since it's two actions. It could be a good idea if others don't it troublesome.