Properties editor multi-column in full screen
The Properties editor tend to be a maze on since it is so long, and blender has this excellent option for fullscreening an editor with ctrl+space, but for the Propreties editor, it doesn't help.
So the idea is obvious :
- From this :
- To this :
I like the idea of the big control panel of your file (like a spaceship cockpit 🤩), however I see how it would fail to be usable and to complex to implement for the gain. Interested to have your thoughts on this.
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Blender 2.49 and before had horizontal layout by default for panels:
You could right click and switch it to vertical:
Blender 2.79 and below had vertical panel layout by default:
You could right click and switch it to horizontal but it was very meh (vertical text titles, uncollapsible parts):
2.80 got rid of horizontal panel mode, but it had some width adaptability in few places:
And somewhere between 2.80 and 3.2 width adaptability was mostly removed:
I think true "grid" mode so panels could be stacked both horizontally and vertically would've been very cool, but chances of this are almost zero after 2.80. Even in past only one mode was supported properly.
I remember 3ds max having this kind of feature. ibb.co/Jcq6WXs
Rough solution. Make a script that creates a new workspace name "properties fullscreen" and adds 3 properties editors. Configure the properties editor code to run that script whenever ctrl+space is pressed and then return to the previously active worspace when you press it again.
Personally I just have a settings workspace open in another window on the 2nd monitor all the time.
In fact, it's not that simple to make it pleasant. The bear minimum would be to synchronize scroll between the 3 panels but it would be a terrible snake-like UI (No UI works like that, that's not a coincidence). One alternative is to move overflowing categories in the next column when you open one, but it's too glitchy. Another alternative is to put even amount of categories in each column but it's still weird. I wonder if a clean way exist. (Also ideally, options moves little to memorize better)