When collection selected, should allow user click Delete/Backspace to delete collection instead of right click.
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Can we get back the CTRL + CLICK to select children of collections as it was with empties in 2.79?
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Heyo,
Tried theming Blender 2.8 and came upon a peculiar issue.
In the outliner the arrow, eye and camera icons colors are oddly colored from the theming options in User Preferences.
Basically when camera and arrow is turned off it uses the âText Selectedâ color and when they are turned on it uses âTextâ color.
This is an annoying inconsistency as itâs impossible to theme this correctly.
Shouldnât it maybe be in the Outliner tab?
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i didnât know you could do that with empties in 2.79 
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Holy shit!
So I can drag the toolbar out sideways to get text descriptions, but I canât drag the toolbar out vertically to expand it to see ALL tools⌠
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I use box select to select a number of objects in the outliner.
But no, thatâs not good enough for the outliner.
I must also right click these items and choose âselectâ.
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nice possible solutionâŚ
I think the worst part is that many of those tool buttons have little arrows at the bottom-right, but nothing happens if you specifically click on them. They merely indicate that something might happen with a long press, which is about as unintuitive as it could be.
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Outliner and viewport selection being different things has a number of useful applications (being able to keep your selection while operating on another batch of objects from the outliner), but in some cases youâd probably want to have them sync up, I agree.
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Yes, the added flexibility of the decoupled selection between the viewport and outliner is very marginal compared to the clarity, simplicity, speed and usefulness of making them sync.
By default, we should make the Outliner and viewport share the the selection state.
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Hmmm, I guess I agree. Right now though we can do both from the outliner - clicking the name does an outliner selection and clicking the icon does an object selection (which never really made sense to me by the way), so what would happen in âsynced modeâ ? Maybe we could get rid of that distinction (clicking name or icon) entirely.
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What is interesting observing about this adventure of âreordering of thingsâ started from a very confused stage of functions that had accumulated over the years, functions that were randomly or not structured in favor of a coherent and logical efficiency that would make simple and more intuitive the use of blender, is that now, after the first layers of reordering, we see emerge a structure that recalls a reorder that begins to become exponential.
Neat things that call to rearrange other things, and the position of the compartments, work areas and how their tools should work at best, it becomes so obvious that the solutions emerge almost naturally ⌠it was like seeing the resolution of a puzzle that eventually becomes easy to solve.
It is fascinating to see this process evolve during the course of these months of work of you devs.
I am convinced that this reordering of features will be the biggest of the winning cards of this version of blender.
And the confirmation of this, is that more and more professionals in the field and from the most varied origins, they begin to recognize the solidity of this work. And also because this level of reorganization had not been touched even with blender 2.5, and I remember that even then it had been done a similar long polishing job. Here there is not only blender, there is in some way the contribution of the whole history of Computer Graphics reached maturity, also through this forum and the contribution of the whole community with their advice and their perplexities when necessary. Here the history is being written.
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Repeat last does too much, I just want to use the last tool on something again, I donât want to do the exact same operation on it as well.
Hitting a single button, g for me, instead of whatever I had to do for the previous tool I used (toolbar click, go into a menu, open quick favorites, multikey shortcut, pie menu) is a huge deal.
Doing the same operation again is really powerful. One simple example is duplicating a whole pie from a 30 degree piece you have modelled. alt+d, r, 30, (axis), enter. shift+r, shift+r, shift+r, shift+r etc.
If you want tools quickly accessible, thatâs what the favourites menu, or the hotkey for that tool, is for.
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This would suck in âselectedâ view, fyi.
Hold on, where did selected view go? Found it
No kidding, but so is using the previous tool. Like I said, a single button dedicated to the previous tool is extremely good.
Other things do this for a reason. I canât have a bunch of shortcuts for everything I want to do. Not as quick and ergonomic as âgâ. Sometimes you want to repeat a lesser used tool a bunch of times. Thereâs no reason to remap your shortcuts for a single session like this.
Repeat history and last are two different things, one opens last tool and the other does like blenders repeat last.
Iâll try to summarize what @lcas is saying.
Letâs say in edit mode you use the Knife tool to cut something.
Then you preform other actions - select, extrude, move, scale.
Now if you hit a button (for the last tool) it will enable the Knife tool.
It searches only for tools in the history of operations(ignores move/rotate/scale, select).
Itâs something that might not make sense for a typical Blender user, but I find it very useful. In Maya you have different keys for repeat last operation and repeat last tool.
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On my system, also noticed that the a video as texture do not refresh, (enabling auto refresh and setting manually more frames) you can confirm this?
instead by drag and drop a video on the 3d view, it work