Post B2Dut74SlbRUxQbzSi by jk@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B2Dut5oTRZ3h3Y7htw by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-12T15:05:44Z
       
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       just noticed at some point between 4.4 and 5.0 Blender changed the "tab" shape to be "button"-shaped rather than "tab"-shaped, like firefox and google and everyone do now. oh no!!! this is the first fundamental UI design regression i've ever seen in Blender. genuinely the UI has consistently got better with every version, but now maybe the "nothing means anything anymore" UI approach is lapping at their shores too. it's tiny, maybe like 5 pixels. but thats how it starts. very worrying
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Dut74SlbRUxQbzSi by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-12T15:12:11Z
       
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       boxes with text in them, with bevels/rounded corners on all sides implies a button which performs a single *one-shot* action. boxes with text in them, with bevels/rounded corners on one side only (e.g. the top) with the other side visually connected to a larger pane implies a tab, which *persistently changes the mode* of the larger pane, selecting which information to display in it. if you just make both widgets look the same, you've created ambiguity and made the software harder to reason about
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Dut8E4TMiqXW7B4q by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-12T15:15:14Z
       
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       at some point between the xerox alto and the xerox star, this stuff got figured out. by the lisa it was like 80% done, by the mac it was 90% done, and by windows 95 it was 100% done. i feel like the shit i'm seeing on a daily basis is going back to circa 1977 GUI standards at best
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Dut9AYxtVhSvTtFQ by poleguy@mastodon.social
       2026-01-12T15:25:04Z
       
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       @jk did they hire a full time graphic designer who needs to constantly change things to justify their salary? I thought blender was open source and wouldn't suffer from this risk. Can you sneak in and quietly revert the change in git? :-)
       
 (DIR) Post #B2DutA7PR6a8PR0syG by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-12T15:26:34Z
       
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       @poleguy can we find where the change happened?? i'm not very good with git. isn't there a command called Git Blame or maybe Git Enact Justice
       
 (DIR) Post #B2DutBBhSdblj21pIW by vfig@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2026-01-12T16:33:20Z
       
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       @jk @poleguy blender 5 changelog lists the main crime commits: https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/user_interface/#widgets
       
 (DIR) Post #B2DutCBNlIwqoKt5RQ by piggo@piggo.space
       2026-01-12T23:05:36.042838Z
       
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       @vfig @jk @poleguy throwback to google "material design" and windows mobile tiles invented because someone was lazy to do shading