lol guys 
Following the file browser party, why the header is at the bottom and hidden by default? 
Why not move it to the top and make it visible by default?
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Well I suspect because itās almost empty, takes up space and is superfluous since all the entries from the menus are available in the popovers to the right. I could be wrong, though.
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then letās turn filebrowser into a headerless type of window (with dancing icons)
One thing that annoys me is that Iām so used to press the first letter of the file/folder that I want to open to not scroll or search for it, but sadly this doesnāt work in the file browser.
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Agreed, I tried to do just that the other day (out of habit) and obviously it didnāt work. It would be quite nice to have !
and some particle effects when you click something (anything!)
Not sure which OS you are referring to, but as under windows you can type in longer searchphrases in the filelist, Iād be happy there would be an option in the preferences for the openFileDialog/openFileBrowser in blender to start with focus on the search function. Thatās not exactly the same behaviour as autoscrolling in the filelist but would be similar enough for me. But for sure making the filelist scroll to the first entry would be as welcome.
Yes, or remove it completely. Currently itās really just about Select All, None and Invert. Shortcuts for these could be added and the whole menu could be removed
I have 3 wishes (for the filebrowser)
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Allow file operations on files and folders via drag and drop in the filebrowser, especially dropping files and folders into other folders.
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Remove the current folder drop feature to open them. At least forbid dragging folders from within the filebrowser itself to change the directory. That operation canāt even be cancelled once it has been accidently triggered as ESC does close the dialog instead. In thumbnailview this happens much quicker than in the listview though.
This is especially confusing since Iād rather expect to see the droptargets content if a change happens but not the dragsource content. I see why this is happening but itās strange anyhow.
- Unify ctrl clicks in the filebrowser.
- Ctrl+LMB clicks on selected file deselects it
- Ctrl+LMB clicks on selected folder deselects it
- Ctrl+LMB clicks on deselected file selects it
- Ctrl+LMB clicks on deselected folder changes the directory.
These are all ctrl clicks btw.
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I am blindly voting for this!
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The knife tool does not display options when being invoked by a hotkey.
The only way to change āocclude geometryā and āonly selectedā is by going through the menu or the icon in the t-menu.
Ideally the options should be setable before the first cut is being made.
Even better if a cut thatās being edited
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In the Preferences Iām always searching for the option to switch off the viewport navigation controls in theā¦ Navigation section. 
For the sake of logic Iād love to see the option being moved to the Navigation section. Thanks!
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I think no because it makes more sense as it is now, despite the matching word āNavigationā that can play you tricks 
Look at that, in Navigation panel you have mostly options that control how you navigate in 3d view, while in the interface you find what is shown on screen in various editors, including the navigation widget. Sounds good to me.
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I think you mean the knife modal operator ? the options are accessible from the hotkeys, which are shown in the info bar at the bottom of the window. Theyāre the same used in the tool, as far as I know (z, c, shift and ctrl).
Iām thinking dangerously but : why not show them in two different places ? could be misleading, but easier to find, kind of a ātagā system (one item can correspond to several ācategoriesā or āplacesā).
that was my first thought butā¦ naaah too dangerous! 
Yes, somewhat - I did find out (or better - was reminded) about them later. The nodal operators donāt save the last setting, do they? Also at least āOnly selectedā does not seem to be reachable by nodal shortcuts and to me it feels weird that there are operators which are simply only reachably by keyboard only. But if thatās by design then thatās the way it is. I also found out that [Alt] followed by [K] invokes the tool instead of the nodal which I found out by total accident. If the tool would display it somehow like C4D does (āAlt ~ Kā) then at least this would have been clearer. Maxon use ā~ā as a way to communicate a key succession as opposed to a Key combination.
Itās okay now that I know but it certainly wasnāt too intuitive to find out.
ON a totally different note (maybe I will be corrected here as well): Adaptive grid size seems to be not working in 3D view.
In orthographic view the grid adjusts when zooming in and out and also displays the current measurement of the grid. Cool!
In 3D view it doesnāt. If you want to work in perspective with a smaller grid (in centimeters for example) you have to adjust the size in the viewport overlay. Which in turn screws with the display in orthographic again (because it shows an adjusted value).
The grid should scale to
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Ok, so this one tripped me up for a bit:
Can you guess whatās wrong here?
Spoiler
Edit mode as activated.
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Whatās the beef here?
Tried to uncheck ālock object modesā in the edit menu? (terrible place for this setting btw)
The beef is that I shouldnāt even be able to have that semi-selection-highlight move around when I click in the outliner when Iām in edit mode.
If, instead, say that highlight would have just flashed a little bit and disappeared, it could have highlighted to me that something else was up.
(I didnāt know about that option you showed, btw, so thanks for that.)
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Same goes for moving objects, it seems. If you select a hierarchy, and then drag it over to another collection in the outliner, only a single object will be moved.
If you, however, use āmove to collectionā in the viewport, they all move over.
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About those selection highlights, I hate them. 
My man Red wax once requested an alpha option in the themes for that selection highlight so we could be able to turn that off if we wished so, but still no love.
The text in the outliner already changes color when selected, why on earth do I need those giant bar highlights. Thatās just too much clutter to me.
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Thereās no right-click option to āchange shortcutā for menus with submenus:
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