GSoC 2020: Outliner Weekly Reports

As promised, here is the video! Today I committed most of my goals for the first stage of the context menu cleanup. There is still a lot of work to do, but it’s already much more usable.

Video contents (in order):

  • Modifier link with drag & drop
  • Collection colors in context menu (new icons)
    • Also new icons in the outliner
  • Collection color icons in UI menus (like add collection instance)
  • Mode toggle column
    • Removing the active doesn’t remove all anymore
    • Change dot icon on hover
  • Properties Editor Sync
    • Now modifiers, constraints, and shader fx are expanded on selection
  • Row icon filter - don’t show icons in rows, but still allow expanding
  • Context menu fixes. Here the context menu shown is based on the target of the right-click. Before it would be impossible to see the modifier menu when an object was also selected.
    • Deleting modifiers when other elements are also selected

Also you may notice the following throughout:

  • Collection exclude checkbox is placed with the other restrict buttons
  • The row highlights are slightly rounded and separated vertically

I would appreciate some testing of the build https://blender.community/c/graphicall/Qmbbbc/ this week to find any remaining bugs!

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