Duplicate with children
It'd be great if there was an option to duplicate with children right in the duplicate operator.
Right now you have to remember that a given object has children, select the parent, Ctrl-G to select the children, f6 to open the redo menu, click extend, and only then can you duplicate the whole hierarchy. It's slow, and when you duplicate only the parent by accident, it's surprising.
Parented objects move together, scale together, rotate together, it's only natural to expect them to duplicate together as well.
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Having the option to include the child objects (extended) when duplicating using Shift-D would be super useful. I'd also suggest to have it set to 'on' by default.
It is a common practice that a lot of 3d tools do, I hope it can be added.
when duplicate an object, you can check some parameters in the info window. Would be quite sensible, to enable this option there.
I would definitely enable a "include children" option while deleting or duplicating by default.