Make Bforartists addons "Official"

[Draise14]

Make Bforartists addons "Official"

[Blenux]

Yeah true, just trying out options 😄

[Blenux]

I wonder if it is possible to introduce a BFA category here.

Why yes it can 😉

[Draise14]

Yeah, once extensions are out of experimental, I got a whole bunch of tasks to do for this... but ehm.... till it is in official let's not worry too much and assume it won't come in 4.1

Tasks:

1. Add back the quick category tabs again, like the old addon system. Those were good.
2. Add more iconography for quick addon read and actions (some missing)
3. Expose some common operators to top level instead of all hidden away. Maybe a new row would be necessary...
4. Make sure our addons list correctly.... Theoretically this extensions system has local addons like the old way, and the new way.

[Draise14]

Great, let's consider this good. The "name" or label of the addon remains the same as in the documentation, and the cateogry, and it is backwards compatible. For the user it is smooth sailing. For us, well we can live with the file name changes.

[ReinerBforartists]

Good catch :)

[ReinerBforartists]

I wonder if it is possible to introduce a BFA category here.

[ReinerBforartists]

Would imo make more sense. Even when it looks a bit more noisy now.

@Draise14 , your opinion here?

[Blenux]

We have to also consider when the extensions will replace the addon section entirely, no?

[ReinerBforartists]

Entirely? O_O

[Blenux]

Yeah when you enabled the extensions experimental feature, it replaces the addon filter enums with it's extensions one.

2024-03-10.21-01-22.mp4

[ReinerBforartists]

Huh, looks scary :D
I have no idea what they want to do there :/

[Blenux]

This

https://extensions.blender.org/

https://extensions.blender.org/about/

[ReinerBforartists]

I see. But our addons are not at this page ^^

[Blenux]

That is true 🤔

[Draise14]

I wonder if it is possible to introduce a BFA category here.

Why yes it can 😉

I guess we can get the same filter for what you did here to go into the Official... and good to go.

[Draise14]

How did you do this one @Blenux ?

[Blenux]

How did you do this one @Blenux ?

bl_ui scripts folder, edit the init.py file with the following,

and each of the Bforartists add-ons need this added in each of their bl_info,

"support": "BFA",

Note!, this only works for the current add-ons way, new extensions way is different, maybe we can have our own addons preferences panel outside of the extensions one since we have nothing in there?

[Draise14]

Ah. So I could also add "official" to the add-ons and we good to roll?

The extensions... Let's worry about that once it is out of experimental. Till then....it's a non feature..

Note: extensions is the add-ons 2.0, they list local add-ons from the repo too.

[Blenux]

Yeah, and could have a checkbox that shows only Bforartists addons?

[ReinerBforartists]

That's imo not really necessary once we would have the Bforartists category. We have just a few addons. It would be a solution when we decide against the bforartists category.

[Draise14]

I love your experiments, meanwhile I'm gonna lump the Bforaritsts addons into the Official tab and will commit and close.

[Draise14]

Made our addons show in a Bforartists category too, using the category built in system. There are few enough to know roughly what they are for once you filter these.

Updating documentation now.

[Draise14]

Forgot to pull. One sec.

[Blenux]

Houston we have a problem,

There is a issue with renaming all the addons with new names with bfa and having existing user preferences with the old names, the new ones ain't enabled by default.

[ReinerBforartists]

I cannot continue due this one. So let's fix it.

[ReinerBforartists]

Hm, very curious. The addons are added/ changed at the right place. But are off O_O

[ReinerBforartists]

I see where the trouble is. The new file names conflicts with the old file names in existing appdata directory content. The user preferences still contains the old addon names. And so we have this conflict here.

Not a happy bunny here. We will have quite a few unhappy old users now. We eagerly need to put a warning to the users to remove their user preferences before using BFA 4.1 then in case we keep the new file names.

The better method would be to rename the addons back to the old names. It should be enough to be able to categorize them. Which works.

[Draise14]

I vote keep the new, do publicity campaign / tutorialon release.

Reverting this will be a mess. We aren't that many old users, and most likely experienced.

Benefit is making the path for a smoother future.
Benefit of name revert is... Nothing breaks when migrating.

We should have done this when 4.0.2 came out....

I'll update names and docs again later today... (Artist first..)

[ReinerBforartists]

And i vote to revert the change. It breaks backwards compatibility. It's one of the rare cases where i veto, sorry :)

It makes too much trouble to keep it this way. And a revert is easy. Duplicate the repo, roll back to before the patch. Then do a meld compare. Should not take longer than half an hour.

[ReinerBforartists]

Mh, there must be a way to keep the old names but have the new functionality.

[Draise14]

About to turn on computer then will test. I think I know how to reproduce and try fix.

[Draise14]

Ok, reverted, and loaded back old userpref from previous build and.. apparently seems ok. Will commit and push to master, can you test?

[ReinerBforartists]

Looking good :)

[ReinerBforartists]

Um this is fixed? Then we should close it :)

[esnosy]

i love this <3