The core team has bought blender to where it is today, they seem to have a pretty good handle on things.
I'm not sure design by committee on bf-c is what this problem was lacking. Just give 'm time, guys, they got this. --Ray On 2022-05-17 6:19 p.m., Harley Acheson via Bf-committers wrote: >> The Idea being to put all of the unlinked stuff into some trash can of > sorts... > > That is what we would have if we would simply just save everything, with > your "trash can" > just being the items that have zero users. Then you can choose, at any > time, to remove > those items. > > These two approaches to data - only save things that are in use except for > items the user > has explicitly marked, versus saving all user data and allowing them to > delete what they > want - are not symmetrical. The former creates an emergency at the point > of exit that we > will not be able to fix with warnings. The latter removes that emergency > and allows the user > to deal with it at leisure. > > I have heard the argument that "OMG, this will make our files bloat". But > you can turn such > a "bloated file" into one without saved orphans with the currently existing > "purge orphans" > operator. You can run this all the time, make it an option to run on save, > or never run it. But > it leaves this to you to deal with when you want, not done *for *you. > > With the thought of (slowly) moving toward saving orphan data, the > following experimental > patch replaces the current File / Clean Up menu of items with a single > "Clean Up" dialog > that can be used remove orphans, set all orphans to fake user, or to bring > up a window > with Outliner set to "Orphan Data" mode so you can manage them granularly. > > https://developer.blender.org/D14030 > > Harley > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
