Toolbar: TABS OR DROPDOWN MENU?

I’ve been reading posts about people having a hard time going through a bunch of tabs of needed blender add-ons.

Would you guys agree that a single tab(“ADD-ONS”) with a dropdown menu(list) of all enabled toolbar addons & when selected, the add-on UI is shown underneath?

Would consider this a poll, but I dont know how to create one.

I’ve been reading posts about people having a hard time going through a bunch of tabs of needed blender add-ons
When the addon authors think their addon is more important that it really is so that it needs its own custom tab or the user enabling addons that they don’t actually use

There are already clear guidelines http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects/UI/Tab_Guidelines

Would you guys agree that a single tab(“ADD-ONS”) with a dropdown menu(list) of all enabled toolbar addons & when selected, the add-on UI is shown underneath?
No

Well, there goes one opinion. Let’s see what others think.

well there is an addon where you can add list of addons you like into one folder
call runner script
it has one menu were you can select the addon you want to run!

happy bl

the problem is not number of addons - the problem is overall bad UI.

It was clear that vertical tabs won’t work long before they were implemented - it’s simple as counting to ten. actually not so simple, but try to count blender’s operators - there are several hundreds of them, so the only solution to the problem is some well accessible hierarchy. Vertical tabs authors simply didn’t count the space available on screen vs number of the operators.
So, I am for any better solution.

mostly I’ve cleaned up addons tabs in Blender, there’s still maybe a few in contrib to do.
the main issue seems to come from external addons now. I did try the tab “Addons” for a while in Blender but it just added another tab to the ui.
the best way is to use existing tabs & context polls to integrate the addons into the ui nicely, with out stacking up tabs.
this is largely an issue for addons devs to address, mostly external devs so not really an UI issue, rather an issue of “If you have lots of external addons enabled, you’ll have lots of tabs”.

I think the actual user should be able to create tabs and drag and drop addon panels to whichever tab they want to.
Furthermore, tabs should also have a dropdown menu - similar to the one found in photoshop’s tabs.

Well how else do other 3d software manage their add-ons? anyone have 3dsmax or maya?

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Wow! is it a proposal?