Not sure if I should cross post stuff from the GSOC thread to here or notā¦ I mean, the guy doing that might not want to fix papercuts, I donāt know?
Anyway, hereās the latest one:
Select hierarchy only works for whatever is active, not the entire selection. Makes deleting multiple hierarchies very tedious.
And a non-outliner one:
Thereās two other edges who share that vertex, and since they werenāt selected, ādissolve edgeā should leave it alone.
Then you never will remove any vertex with that tool, and that is the reason of use that tool.
What edge do you go to dissolve without other two edges in the same vertex?
I want to propose small improvement to File Browser. In most OSs in file borwser user can switch between different thumbnail sizes, list, and detailed list view with Ctrl+Scroll. It would be reasonable to mimick this behaviour in Blender File Browser, since keybinding for it is free.
In general Iām strong proponent for capitalising on existing user habbits to improve Blender usability when it is not colliding with specific function, tool or workflow.
The default blender search defaults to wildcard pattern matching:
But the data api search does not:
Also, the default view has a nice (but limited) filtering options for types of objects:
(Missing mostly every type of object, but stillā¦ also, modifiers would be nice to have.)
But the data api view does not have anything at all:
(Oh, and similar to this, I think it would be nice if view filtering options were separate from search filtering optionsā¦ but perhaps that ups the complexity too much.)
I would like to see the selected objects automatically gathered (grouped) in the newly created Collection as soon as the user clicks on the New Collection icon. In fact, just the same behaviour than layers and groups in Photoshop.
Current behaviour (when the new collection is created, the user has to manually move the objects into the collection):
Proposal (once the new collection is created, Blender would automatically move the previously selected objects into the collection):
EDIT :
Maybe a modifier key (ALT/CTRL/SHIFT + LMB) could be used to select objects prior to click on the New Collection icon.
Also posted at GSoC 2020: Outliner Discussion and Suggestions and https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/V9fbbc/
This is useful, but Iād put it under a modifier key, like Alt + clickā¦ 
This!
Otherwise the mistakes would be very annoying.
Iāll third that. It would be annoying if you had to deselect everything first if you wanted to make a new collection
Totally agree. Why not a different icon though ? Thereās so much space in the outliner header, we should use it.
To avoid confusion maybe: why two icons to make a new collection? How could you picture the feature in a tiny icon?
Iād vote for a rightclick menu option: āPut selection into a new Collectionā and āLink selection into a new Collectionā
Yeah itās not obvious. Maya has a button for that, which is where I took the inspiration from. Clearly there should be a way though, I mean you can from the āMā menu but a more straightforward way from the header would be nice.
Ha! indeed you are rightā¦ that would do snapping the CTRL modifyer.
Sad that its not documented would of saved my (and you) some time - hopefully its something that gets mentioned in the snapping tool notesā¦ I might port that question into the Documentation section.
thanks for clarifying this @lsscpp
Iāve always had the feeling in blender 2.8 that the splash screen is not aligned. I think itās because of the viewport and the properties panel, it gives you the feeling that itās displaced. My simple solution proposal would be to put a black dye around it as I show in my mockup to focus the attention on the splash screen and hide the off-center feeling.
Why notā¦
Maybe if the āNew Collectionā icon opens a dropdown menuā¦
something like this quick mockup
should be just a UIpython job
