"Show whole Scene transparent"-Icon

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This might be similar to this topic, but it’s more about a diffrent Icon and not so much the feature.

Decoupling x-ray and limit selection to visible

It appears there has been significant regression in terms of “Limit selection to visible” feature. While in 2.79, you were able to choose if you want to select only visible faces or all faces in the selection box, in 2.8, this is no longer possible. Instead, there is a very odd feature which combines Xray mode with “Limit selection to visible”. This means that the only way to disable “Limit selection to visible” option is by entering the Xray mode which makes complex scenes much much less reada…

So the button, that Limits the Selection in the edit-mode to only the visible Edges/Faces/Vertices has been removed in 2.8 and now, the selection is always limited to the visible geometry.

This button used to call: bpy.context.space_data.use_occlude_geometry = True

But now, there is a diffrent button, that calls a diffrent function, but has the same Icon: You can now turn on x-ray and “Show the whole Scene transparent”.

Now the button calls: bpy.data.screens["Layout"].shading.show_xray = True

And I mean I kind of understand it: since you can see everything, when you turn on x-ray, you can technically now also select occluded geometry. But it still does a diffrent thing and because of the more difficult readability, when all the objects are visible at the same time, these functions can’t be used interchangabely.

So I’d find it better to actually have a diffrent button for the new function:

And if you are planning on bringing the old option back (wich I’d be very thankful for), I might also slightly alter the button to make it’s functionality a bit clearer.