Objects Panel improvements & fixes

[jack-ii]

First of all thank you again for the great folder tree feature!
A few things I noticed that I would like to mention:

A few things in the object panel were removed and should come back

• Mouseover effect
• Unselect objects when clicking on them
• All objects selected in the scene editor are selected in the object panel

(Maybe) Unselect objects and folders when a folder is collapsed (Photoshop does this)

If there are only folders and no individual objects in a category, it is impossible to create a new folder in the category root, because one folder is always selected. Especially if the selected folder is not visible because it is in a collapsed folder and the new folder is created in it, it feels strange.

The name of a new folder is always underlined in red until it is changed or unselected.

(Maybe) Allow folders to be deleted also if folders and objects in it, with a confirmation popup

It would be nice if collapse status of folder is saved.

When picking an object in the scene editor that is in a collapsed folder, select the folder. When the folder opens, select the object.

The collapse arrow icon should be a little larger.

The three dot menu button and collapse arrow are almost invisible in the Blue Dark Theme

In the theme, the object and folder names are also very difficult to read when they are selected. Maybe you can try #494952 as selected background color.

[AlexandreSi]

Hi @jack-ii,
thanks for the suggestions, we'll review them and keep you updated!

[AlexandreSi]

Sum up of the objects list following #5895

• ✅ Mouseover effect is back
• ✅ Unselect objects and folders when a folder is collapsed
• ✅ Folder/object name is not underlined with red anymore
• ✅ Allow folders to be deleted also if folders and objects in it, with a confirmation popup
• ✅ The collapse arrow icon should be a little larger.
• ✅ Improvements of the selected row color/contrast on every theme

Remaining items

Could be done without too much work

• Select the visible parent folder of the object when selecting one of its instance on the scene.

Selection/multi-selection

Multi-selection will come at one point but we're unsure about all the features that come with it (copy paste, deletion, drag n drop) so it's still in the works. It should cover your points about unselection and selection of multiple instances on the scene.

Saving collapsed state of folders

This is not easily and properly feasible at the moment. We are thinking about assigning unique ids to folders in the future. With this feature, it will be easy to do so we rather not lose time implementing a solution that will be useless in the future.

[jack-ii]

@AlexandreSi A separator between scene and global objects when adding conditions/actions, would be good or bold font for the global. It makes it much easier to find e.g. the most recently added scene object.