Blender 4.2: User Interface

General

• Support for dropping strings & URL's into the text editor & Python console (64843cb12d)

  

  Drag Urls and Texts to Text and Console Editors

• Support for horizontal rules in vertical layouts, vertical rules in horizontal. (4c50e6992f)
• Improved property dialogs. (8fee7c5fc7, da378e4d30, 615edb3f3c)
• Changes to menu separator padding. (48dee674f3)
• Fixed pixel shift in Windows clipboard image paste. (a677518cb5)
• Improved square color picker when shown very wide. (857341a7a7)
• Improved large confirmation dialogs. (00b4fdce2c, 6618755912, 3bacd93ba6, 2c8a3243ee, 5eda7c9fd3, 311e0270dd, d379897019)

Large Confirmation

• Improved small confirmation dialogs. (443ea628c5), (529b8786f8)

Small Confirmation

• Outliner "Orphan Data" mode renamed to "Unused Data". (72be662af4)
• Cleanup menu gets new "Manage Unused Data" operation. (f04bd961fd)
• Improved User Interface scaling. (85762d99ef, f85989f5db, 196cd48aad, 23aaf88233, 1f1fbda3ee)
• Image Copy and Paste now works in Linux/Wayland. (692de6d380)
• Icon changes. (42e7a720c9, 4e303751ff)
• Tooltip changes. (3d85765e14, 08cd80a284)
• Preferences "Translation" section changed to "Language". (73d76d4360)
• Improved operators for adding/deleting custom themes. (a0a2e7e0dd)
• Improved operators for adding/deleting custom key configurations. (57729aa8bb)
• Reduced dead zone for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse. (d739d27a2d)
• Optimizations to the font shader. (a05adbef28)
• Panels now supported in dialog popups. (aa03646a74)
• Interface font updated to Inter 4.0. (f235990009)

Inter Font

• New button to save custom themes. (ee38a7b723)

Save Theme

• Corrected initial viewport tilt. (913acaf395)
• Recent Items context menu now allows opening file location. (6789a88107)
• Some operator confirmations removed. (6dd0f6627e), (7226b52728)
• Improved confirmation when reverting the current file. (75a9cbed24), (8735a8a6be)
• Tighter Status Bar keymap spacing. (65bfae2258)
• Expanded Status Bar icons for keymap events. (d1b6621903)

Keymap Icons

• Corrected coloring when hovering inactive UI items. (5bed08fc56)
• Asset Browser now allows Maximize Area. (2d5a83f294)
• Changes to Splash Screen for new versions. (d2d810f11a)

Splash Screen Changes

• Outliner "Blender File" mode now allows managing user counts. (d8f6ae7919)

Outliner File Mode

• Status Bar now collapses multiple X/Y/Z operations to a more concise format. (49bd285529)

Status Bar Keymap

• Wavelength node now uses nanometer-scale inputs. (cc541f2c07)
• All Zoom menus now use a new consistent format. (7e2075b809)

Zoom Menus

• 3D View Object menu gains a "Modifiers" submenu. (e63c8bb3c2)
• More improvements to overlay text contrast. (3582e52f9c)
• Improvements to Status Bar keymap display. (c4e5a70e07), (44606c5e4d), (42a8947eb1), (dfe060ea6f), (03cd8b359b), (3fbc603137), (1391b7de41)

Status Bar Keymap

• "Select" menus reorganized to be more consistent. (ede675705e), (4dbca26b5c)
• Add eyedropper button to camera focus distance. (7f8d4df410)

Focus Distance Eyedropper

• Tooltips for colors featuring large sample and values. (41bbbd2359)

Color tooltips

Unused IDs Purge UI Improvements

The purge operation now pops-up a dialog where user can choose which options to apply, and get instant feedback on the amounts of unused data-blocks will be deleted. PR#117304, 0fd8f29e88

New Purge UI popup

Modifiers

• It's now possible to add, remove, apply, and reorder modifiers all selected objects by holding alt (9a7f4a3b58),

Platform-Specific Changes

• Linux: Registering & unregistering file-type associations is now supported on Linux. This can be accessed via the system preferences "Operating System Settings" or via command line arguments (--register, --register-allusers), see --help for details. (9cb3a17352).