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)
• Improved small confirmation dialogs. (443ea628c5)
• 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)
• New button to save custom themes. (ee38a7b723)
• Corrected initial viewport tilt. (913acaf395)
• Recent Items context menu now allows opening file location. (6789a88107)
• Some operator confirmations removed. (6dd0f6627e)
• Improved confirmation when reverting the current file. (75a9cbed24)
• Tighter Status Bar keymap spacing. (65bfae2258)
• Changes to Splash Screen for new versions. (d2d810f11a)

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).