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  • Published 15 Apr 2025

Clearer tooltips for Viewport Shading modes

The Viewport Shading tooltips are wordy, and the essential information is buried:

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Many new Blender users assume that "Viewport Shading" is the name of the current shading mode, and they'll say, "I'm in Viewport Shading mode and I'm seeing blah blah blah..."

A better tooltip design would be:

Viewport Shading: [mode]
Shortcut: [shortcut]

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Development Status: Open

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smoothie
15 Apr 2025

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Lauloque

Agree!

I would also like to see more descriptive description of the mode itself. Saying that solid mode displays in solid mode doesn't really help.

Edit:

It's in progress: #137571 - UI: Enum Tooltip Item Order - blender - Blender Projects

And I also made a PR for more descriptive shading modes tooltips that's already merged :D #137699 - UI: Viewport Shading Modes Tooltips More Descriptive - blender - Blender Projects

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