GSoC 2024 Proposal: Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience

[Brainzman]

@Austin-Berenyi

#107522
I helped with this about a year ago, and would love for this to be considered for any extra improvements you may have time for. It would be super helpful to have this functionality throughout Blender on macOS.

For sure! I also found myself missing this functionality a few days ago when bulk renaming multiple objects.

@blenderrocket

Very nice plan. One more idea for system integration: in the file picker I have always missed the iCloud drive and photo library integration.

Yeah that would be great! The Photo Library might be a bit tricky due to permission requirements and the fact it relies on a specific framework, but iCloud seems very doable! I haven’t look at the Blender file manager bookmarks/emplacements implementation, but on the macOS side of things I believe it should boil down to a simple NSFileManager call. This would also give a macOS feature equivalent to the basic OneDrive implementation that currently exists for Windows. Also for reference, there was some previous discussion about this topic here.

Thanks for the suggestions! I added both ideas to the proposal.