'thumbnail_size' is now used in all cases, it controlls column width in other viewmodes
of filebrowser. We cannot (easily) rename that DNA member, but I also renamed RNA
property, and fixed its tooltip...
It basically rewrites most of filelist.c, with some more limited changes in other areas of filebrowser.
From user perspective, it:
* Removes some info in 'long' drawing mode (owner, permissions) - OS-specific data that do not really matter in Blender!
* Makes short/long display 'fixed' size (among four choices, like thumbnails mode).
* Allows to list several layers of dirtree at once, in a flat way (inside .blend files and/or real directories).
* Consequently, adds datablocks types filtering.
* Uses way less RAM when listing big directories, especially in thumbnail mode (we are talking of several hundred of MiB spared).
* Generates thumbnails way faster.
From code perspective, it:
* Is ready for asset engine needs (on data structure level in filebrowser's listing).
* Simplifies and makes 'generic' file listing much lighter.
* Separates file listing in three different aspects:
** 'generic' filelisting (in BLI), which becomes a shallow wrapper around stat struct.
** 'filebrowser drawing' filelisting, which only contains current visible subset of the whole list (sliding window), with extra drawing data (strings for size, date/time, preview, etc.).
** 'asset-ready' filelisting, which is used for operations common to 'basic' filehandling and future asset-related one.
* Uses uuid's to handle file selection/state in the browser, instead of using flags in filelisting items.
* Uses much lighter BLI_task handling for previews, instead of heavy 'job' system (using the new 'notifier' timer to handle UI refresh, in similar way to jobs).
* Moves .blend datablocks preview handling to IMB_thumbnail (necessary to avoid storing all datablock previews at once, and gives better consistency and performances too).
Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1316
Thanks to Campbell & Sergey for the reviews. :)
We can now scale from 32px up to 256px (default has been upgraded to 128px).
Thumbnails are now generated as 'large', i.e. 256px.
Previews are scaled up if necessary, unlike icons (for folders or files without preview images).
Note that .blend thumbnails themselves remain in 128px for now (they are embeded in .blend files,
not quite sure we want to make them four times bigger...).
Patch by DMS (Yaron Dames), with final edits by myself.
Reviewers: mont29
Subscribers: Severin, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1260
Reported by maxon through IRC, thanks.
Invalid (inexistant) bookmarks would not be selectable, hence not removable.
First, made invalid bookmarks grayed out in lists, so that user knows when there are some.
Then, added a new 'cleanup' operator that removes all invalid bookmarks.
This solution may not be completely satisfaying, but should do the work for now.
I do not want to add back those ugly 'X' delete buttons for each entry in list,
so better solution would be to make UIList able to select several items at once...
Bookmarks are now editable (i.e. you can rename them, and reorder them).
They are also listed in regular UILists, so you can filter/sort them as usual too.
Also, FileBrowser 'T' side area is changed to something similar to 3DView one,
in this case because we need op panel to remain at the bottom, and later because
we'll more than likely need tabs here!
Thanks to Campbell and Sergey for reviews.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1093
We do keep it when typing an new directory name in the directory text field.
Reviewed By: brecht, billrey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D188
PATCH: [#32989] Activate backup files filter in File Browser
Contributed by Georg Kronthaler, many thanks!
(I just moved the icon to a different place reserved for file browser icons)
* enables the filtering of backup files in the file browser
* adds a 'filter backup files'-icon to the filter buttons
* adds new icons for backup files in list and thumbnail view
* enables file preview for the backup files
* Expose 3D view camera zoom and offset, needed if you want to precisely
reconstruct camera parameters.
* Rename SpaceFileBrowser.operator to active_operator, to avoid conflict
with c++ keyword.
ui/ --> startup/bl_ui
op/ --> startup/bl_operators
scripts/startup/ is now the only auto-loading script dir which gives some speedup for blender loading too.
~/.blender/2.56/scripts/startup works for auto-loading scripts too.
