BETTER default Material names / user controlled
TMK Material names are just incremented as they are created. YMMV but I think this can rapidly become confusing. I think we can do better.
My proposal would pre-pend the Material name with the Object name, or a subset of the object name if the user prefers. EG, I'm currently working on a fuselage with an Object of "Fuselage" , Material names would be "Fuselage-Mat.001" or "Fuse..-Mat.001", and the user could specify the number of letters in the prepending, or turn it off entirely (i.e., set it to zero).
This would self-/auto-document Materials with at least a slightly more contextual name.
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Issue is, materials are not a per-object thing. One object can have lots of materials, and one material can be used on any object, and I personally don't often have the same names for my objects and materials. So I fail to see what this would enhance in these cases, it would still create generic incremented names that you would need to rename, hence I can't really consider this worth the development resource from the BF.
Though an addon developper might like it.