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  • Published 8 May 2025

UI: Show node labels in placeholders

In nodes, especially group nodes, ID selector sockets like Object and Collection remain ugly and look very out of place, hitboxes are too small in default sizes as well.

Well... since we now have placeholders for them, why not use them to show labels? Instead of showing:

• Label |  Object

Show:

•  Label


Or to better demonstrate:

Before: Screenshot 2025-05-08 235446.png

After: after.png

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Development Status: Open

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nickberckley
8 May 2025

4 Comments

thorn

It's a small thing, but a very good suggestion.

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cmbasnett

I've implemented this in a new PR: projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139414

pablovazquez

That looks like a bug, don't we do that already? I recall a commit by Jacques related to that not too long ago.

nickberckley Author

That was for string sockets only