Planned Minimize sidebar

[instinct-vfx]

Hi there,

 

here's a minor UI idea that i would like to see discussed. When the sidebar in any of the project views is minimized the text is hardly readyble anymore, the icons removed and the sidebar still needs a fair bit of screen estate. Instead i propose that the sidebar minimizes to an iconbar, and the trees are then displayed as flyout menus.

 

Here are quick mockups:

 

Standard view:

 

Current minimize behaviour:

 

Proposed minimize behaviour:

 

Proposed minimize behaviour including flyout menu:

 

Cheers,

Thorsten

[Milan Kolar]

I will second this. It would certainly look cleaner if nothing else and the icons give better idea of what the option represent.

[Carl Claesson]

Hi,

 

Yes, this sounds like a nice idea. I'll add a feature request.

 

Thanks for the feedback!

 

Cheers,

Carl

[Fredrik Limsater]

Hi Guys,

 

thanks for your input Thorsten. I like it, and have made a mockup of it with 3.0 style that you can find in our new section for the upcoming version 3 here. We would love to get feedback on this. After Siggraph we will post more articles in the 3.0 section about features we would like to get feedback on.

 

Cheers,

Fredrik

[Francois]

Are there any updates on this feature? It would make the overall application more readable, that would be great!

[Mattias Lagergren]

17 hours ago, Francois said:

Are there any updates on this feature? It would make the overall application more readable, that would be great!

I'm afraid that we never got to implement this feature. I will highlight this again with the product team as it is something we may take into consideration for future versions of ftrack