Support freedesktop file association on Linux/Unix via the command line
arguments: `--register{-allusers}` `--unregister{-allusers}` as well
registration actions from the user preferences.
Once registered, the "Blender" application is available from launchers
and `*.blend` files are assoisated with the blender binary used for
registration.
The following operations are performed:
- Setup the desktop file.
- Setup the file association & make it default.
- Copy the icon.
- Setup the thumbnailer (`--register-allusers` only).
Notes:
- Registering/unregistering for all users manipulates files under
`/usr/local` and requires running Blender as root.
From the command line this can be done using `sudo`, e.g.
`sudo ./blender --register-allusers`.
From the GUI, the `pkexec` command is used.
- Recent versions of GNOME execute the thumbnailer in a restricted
environment (`bwrap`) requiring `blender-thumbnailer` to be copied
into `/usr/local/bin` (synlinks don't work).
So thumbnailing copies the binary rather than linking and only works
when registering for all users.
Ref !120283
The goal is to support better search experience in the cases where we want to
explicitly influence the ordering instead of relying only on general heuristics.
We used to support this already at some point I think, but not anymore since we
started using menu-search.
The implementation is fairly straight forward. It mainly just forwards the
search weight from the menu definition to the search code through various
required steps. The main annoying thing is that changing the signature of e.g.
`uiItemFullO_ptr` is fairly involved. Even using default parameters for these
functions is a bit annoying and becomes fairly unreadable and error-prone on the
call-site. For now, I worked around this by storing the search weight on the
`uiLayout` and to copy it to the `uiBut` from there. That seems preferable until
we have a better solution for adding parameters to all the `uiItem*` functions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120572
Extract
- Statuses for the external text editor
- Newly created enum node item
- Newly created plane track data
- Newly created custom orientation data
- Operator names in drag and drop menu (need to use operator's
translation context)
- GN attribute statistic node inputs
Disambiguate
- Single-letter colors: A and B can mean Alpha and Blue, or simply A
and B as in two operands in an operation
- Dissolve: issue reported by Tamar Mebonia in #43295
- Translate in the User Preferences. This introduces a new
BLT_I18NCONTEXT_EDITOR_PREFERENCES ("Preferences") translation
context
- Planar (reported by deathblood)
This one is incomplete, because there is currently no way to
disambiguate presets or GN fields. I don't see how either could be
achieved cleanly.
The former would need to define the context inside the preset and
evaluate the file prior to showing it in the presets menu, which
sound bad.
The latter would need to introduce an additional string inside
`FieldInput`s, which would be controversial given how little it
would be used.
Remove
- Unused translation `iface_("%s")` in toolbar
- Remove obsolete N_() tags in a few node descriptions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119065
Add a new keyframe type named 'generated', which is meant to indicate
that the key was set by some automated tool (like an add-on), rather
than manually by an animator.
This is meant for tooling that needs to create keys in a repeatable way.
With this new key type, the tool can know which keys it generated
before, and thus those can be removed and re-generated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120564
Local Cache and module are not related, so they should not be on the
same row. Instead group Local Cache with custom directory.
Designed with Pablo Vazquez.
This PR adds an option to specify custom colors for a
motion path. One for frames before the current frame
and one frame for after. With this it is easier to see
the relation of the motion path to the current frame.
That was already the case with the default colors, but
not with custom colors.
On a technical side note, the colors pre and post the current
frame were already different.
The shader multiplied the custom color by 0.25
for anything pre current frame.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119375
In GPv2 there was an option to disable masks during rendering
of a viewlayer. This wasn't implemented for GPv3 yet.
This needs to change the way the draw calls are created,
because we need to skip over drawings at render time.
So to do this, we precompute the drawing offsets,
then check if we need to skip over it and otherwise
create the draw calls.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120561
Inherited from previous versions of this feature, by default the Purge
operation from the Outliner would remove all unused IDs, recursively.
The same operation invoked from the File -> Clean Up main menu would by
default only delete directly unused IDs.
Now both will by default remove all (directly or indirectly) unused data.
The recent change in [0] which added a filepath argument to pre/post
callbacks broke adding presets.
Remove the argument from operators as the the filename is sometimes
created based on values set in the pre-callback.
This mostly reverts the change, only keeping the filepath argument
for the static-method callbacks declared on the menu or panels.
[0]: 72e6191c89
This is needed so we can reliably know which extension is associated
with a theme, so a theme can be refreshed on update and cleared when
uninstalled, needed to resolve!120289.
This adds operators to add a bezier and circle primitive in curves
edit mode. The operators support the same settings as in the
legacy curve edit mode. The `shift+A` shortcut is added as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120513
`editmesh_active` theme is used to for active mesh element.
`vertex_active` is unused here (only used in graph editor) so remove it
from the 3d viewport and UV editor theme.
Found this in #119640
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119649
Caused by 30b0c5b225
That commit removed `use_insertkey_xyz_to_rgb` but
I didn't see the use of that in the python script.
Fixed by removing the usage of that property from the python script as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120509
Adds an (empty) sculpt mode for Grease Pencil v3 objects.
The object `SCULPT_GPENCIL` mode is re-used for Grease Pencil object
types. A `SCULPT_GREASE_PENCIL` context mode has been added, which is
specific to grease pencil objects. This is necessary for polling tools
and keymaps.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119338
Change Console and text editor cursor color to match that of
widget_text_cursor. Console cursor is currently red which we normally
use for error conditions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120491
Shows either "Search by Name" or "Search by Key-Binding" as placeholder text in
the search button. This makes it more clear what's expected to be entered here.
Personally I often did/do the mistake of searching for the wrong thing in this
button, because I forgot that I changed it earlier. The placeholder text can
avoid this mistake.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113681
This implements the ability to have file exporters added and configured on Collections.
Exporting is reachable from several locations:
- Individually on each exporter configuration: The `Export` button in each panel header
- For all exporters on the collection: The `Export All` button in the main panel interface
- For all exporters on all collections in the scene: The `File`->`Export All Collections` button
Visibility of which collections currently have exporters configured is done by ways of an icon added to the Collection row in the Outliner.
Adding multiple exporters for the same file type is permitted. The user is free to setup several exports of the same format but with different file locations or settings etc.
Notes:
Only USD and Wavefront OBJ are enabled for the initial commit. Additional formats, including those implemented in Python will be added as separate commits after this.
Ref #115690
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116646
Changed the experimental flag label from "Animation: Project Baklava" to
"New Animation System" to be more self-explanatory. Also I changed the
associated item on project.blender.org to #120406, which tracks the work
that is still to be done.
Add a 'Baklava' panel to the 3D Viewport side-panel. It's a
developer-GUI, not meant for animators (or for inclusion beyond the
experimental feature, for that matter).
Note that this GUI shows all layer properties, even though the data
model is currently limited to a single layer. This means that things
like 'influence' and 'mix mode' are irrelevant, as there is no
underlying layer to mix with.
Also key insertion and animation evaluation are not implemented yet (but
will be in upcoming commits).
For more info, see #113594.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118677
Add code (including RNA wrappers) for:
- Creating, removing, and accessing `Animation` data-blocks.
- Creating and removing layers, strips, and bindings on those `Animation`
data-blocks.
- Accessing those via RNA.
Note that this does not include assignment to any animated data-block,
so it is of limited practical use.
For more info, see #113594.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118677
The "Play In" > "Properties Editor" option is not only updating Property
Editors but also the sidebars of other editors (such as the 3DView).
This caused a bit of confusion since we also have "Play In" > "3D
Viewport" (which only updates the 3DView main region but not the
sidebar)
So now call the option "Properties and Sidebars" in the UI ("Editor" has
been stripped to fit the text - but also since the editor is usually
only called "Properties" e.g. in the editor dropdown).
Came up in #120012
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120305
