Sorting of Quickfavorites
The Quick favorites are really useful to quickly access options that have no shortcut (or a way to complicated shortcut)
But when I add for example a origin movement option to the QF and then other things and then I find I use another Origin manipulation very often and add that as well it might look like that:
But when I want to have all the origin manipulation options in one block inside the Quick Favorites there is no way to sort them, the only way is to remove favorites in between and re add them and that is no good workflow to work with favorites, especially when it is called QUICK favorites and that removing and re-adding is painful and everything but quick.
When rightclicking an entry to the quick favorites there is a context menu but not enough options there.
So this is a proposal to add a "Move to top" "move up" (by one) "move down" (by one) "move to bottom" sorting function block to the rightclick context menu of a quick favorites entry.
Alternatively drag and drop of the favorites entries would be even faster but can easily lead to wrong clicks and this is not desirable.
A grabber area on the right side of the entry could work for drag and drop sorting. or buttons to move up or down, but rightclick and moving is good enough, as long as there is some way to sort the very useful quick favorites and make those even better.
also note in 2020 this was tried to add with a GSoC project but that never was completed, but maybe the codebase can be used already: devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2020-custom-menus-weekly-reports/13721
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We also need a way to export the quick favorites to a python file we can copy to another computer and run inside of blender to quickly recreate the same quick fav list. A nice side effect is we'd be able to rearrange the code to reorder the resulting quick fav menu.
I also like having "Origin to 3D Cursor" as the first item in the quick fav list. Origins are so important to me that I'd rather have a pie menu for origins on the O key instead of Proportional Editing.
I just wrote a this in a different topic but it fits here very well:
We really need an underlying better way to create our own shortcut menues and pie dials beyond the one "Add to quick favorites" option we got. And I mean without having to code on in Python because even beyond the problem that not every blender user really is able to code their own manu in Python it's also super invonveinient if you don't want a very specific thing to happen in there, like a Macro or a specialized custom execution of a script. I think I made a mockup somewhere and it even got picked up for GSoC 2020 but then was never integrated, sadly: wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Tempo/GSoC2020/Final_Report
There might also be one or more proposals on RCS already, as well.
devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2020-custom-menus-weekly-reports/13721/1
The ability to sort quick favorites is really needed as a QOL update. Heck, I'd even take a "export a .json text file and edit it manually" option.