GSoC 2024: Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience - Weekly Reports

[Brainzman]

Week 12

August 12 - 18

This Week

• Wrapped up the design of the new WM/GHOST Client-Side Decorations API, making the macOS Colored Titlebar PR ready for review. (See quick API overview)
  

  
  • Bonus: Windows 11 Colored Titlebar Decoration Port by @Harley (many thanks!)
    
    
    
    
    

• UI Bug fixes

  • #126379 - WIP Fix: Interactive Docking modal operator re-run glitch
  • #126383 - Fix: UI: Editor window(s) title update when using interactive docking
  • #126386 - Fix #126246: Missing Outliner redraw notifier when making datablock single user

• Released the macOS Image Clipboard Copy/Paste Support PR

  • Still marked as WIP for now as some design decision needs to be taken regarding support for image file references in clipboard (and not just image data), as well as tweaks to support full arbitrary bitmap format/encoding

Next week

Last week of GSoC! I will be mainly focusing on wrapping up everything and writing my final report.