Change the "Taper Object" icon to a Curve icon.
It’s not necessarily obvious that the taper object needs to be a Curve object. Therefore, changing the icon from the general object properties icon to the Curve icon would help clarify this.
It’s not necessarily obvious that the taper object needs to be a Curve object. Therefore, changing the icon from the general object properties icon to the Curve icon would help clarify this.
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In Blender an object is usually made of two data-blocks, the Object data-block, and Object Data which can be Curves, Camera, Light, etc.
The Object icon is technically correct, because what you select there is a Curve object , not the Curve's data.
That being said, it'd be more intuitive if we'd show the object data type instead in cases like this. The issue is that the dropdown would list Object data-blocks, not Curve data-blocks.
I believe object data-block pickers can be limited to one type only (curve modifier for example doesnt show other types of objects). In that case we can set it to automatically derive icon of that object type.