I managed to find their suggestions box on their nightmare Flash-full site and ever so politely asked them to get rid of the damn unified "properties" panel, the thing I keep beating my head against constantly.
I was surprised when, a few days later, I actually got email from them:
Hi Margaret,
I talked with some folks about the annoying panel design you mentioned, in which selecting an object requires 2 steps: (1) select the frame in the timeline, (2) select the object on stage. We can't revert to the old design (multiple panels). But what if you could select an object by double-clicking the frame? The Properties panel would immediately show the object's properties, instead of the frame properties. Would this help?
...to which I responded with what was probably a lengthy diatribe on why I thought that would be an ugly band-aid on the core problem of that panel being a horrible, frustrating bottleneck; it's stuff that an artist/animator needs to have quickly and simultaneously accessible sometimes, not in this context-sensitive thing that forces you to constantly define your context for it.
And, well, I've just given up any hope of it ever getting better now. I really need to just work on eliminating this fucking thing from my life. Using it is just a huge source of stress for me.
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Date: 2005-11-17 10:03 pm (UTC)I was surprised when, a few days later, I actually got email from them:
...to which I responded with what was probably a lengthy diatribe on why I thought that would be an ugly band-aid on the core problem of that panel being a horrible, frustrating bottleneck; it's stuff that an artist/animator needs to have quickly and simultaneously accessible sometimes, not in this context-sensitive thing that forces you to constantly define your context for it.
And, well, I've just given up any hope of it ever getting better now. I really need to just work on eliminating this fucking thing from my life. Using it is just a huge source of stress for me.
[repost to fix my broken </blockquote> tag.]