Bforartists: Global - Responsive double column layout for long lists in panels

[Draise14]

Issue

Right now, the new right aligned list system with titles is nice and clean.. but it's very single column and no-longer responsive to how wide the layout is. They don't collapse to two columns when the layout has enough width. This adds to A LOT of scrolling, expanding and collapsing, and a lot of white empty unused space.

Research

Is this intentional? Or is there something broken?

Can this be improved technically?

Task

Research if this can be improved, then make tasks to implement it in long lists (View Tab in the Properties Editor, eg)

[ReinerBforartists]

It's the Blender style. And yes, it wastes lots of space at the moment. But i am not sure if jumping away checkboxes is really an improvement ...

We will find a solution!

[ReinerBforartists]

Proof ...

[Draise14]

The far left align to all is better than the blender way, alteast it's now along an editor edge, but yeah.. there is SO MUCH WHITE SPACE. And scrolling...

[iyadahmed]

I think the solution might be to use a grid_flow, example is relations panel in object props, it adjusts automatically based on space

[ReinerBforartists]

Yes. That's one possible solution. But we could also get away with a simple layout.split() and two rows. Imho users rarely pull the properties editor fullscreen. But work with the current layout. A grid would be more elegant though :)