Nodes Shortcut Icons
How about creating shortcut icons with a specific bar just for geometry nodes / shader nodes in their respective workspace - something similar to substance designer.
Its irritating to always have to use the SHIFT A and search when we can simply drag and drop from the UI bar. It would be awesome and a time saver if there is a user preference for the icon shortcuts.
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From my experience this panel was never needed, it's much faster to call up the search panel and select nodes from this panel. So I don't see the point of doing it in Blender.
This would be a nice addition, but I think it would require quite some time to design icons that are really meaningfull for every node, and it would add to the overhead of adding new features to the node editors. It can definitely be done with an addon and I don't think that's the direction the dev team is going forward UI/UX wise. But with the addition of smart connection when you drag a link from a socket recently, this is less and less a problem tbh.
that could be really useful, especially if we keep going with the whole "everything nodes" idea
It could be an alternative. For me personally once the shift + a was added I'm never looking back at any node editor menu. Same thing with Gaea/ Designer/ Unreal engine. It's just faster to find a node and connect it to a specified socket in one go.
But ye as an alternative why not. Where should it be placed though? The N panel is clustered as it is You could make another horizontal bar in the node editor.
It would be nice to have some propositions. Visual ones.
noice icons by the way