Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.68/Usability

Blender 2.68: Usability

User Interface

• Display menu items key shortcuts in the button tooltips. (r57172).
• Drag-Toggle now allows all layers to be set at once. (r56748)
• Color picker now supports 3 digit hex colors like HTML, e.g. #123 becomes #112233. (r57135)
• Units, display 0.5mm rather than 500um, nicer when dealing with very small sizes but not microscopic (r57149)
• Double click now selects entire words (like on file path segments) (r57280)
• File-selector now maps back and forward history to back and forward buttons on a 5 button mouse. (r57285)
• For users without middle-mouse buttons, you can now use Circle and Border de-select by holding SHIFT. (r57577)
• Expanded control of enum properties in bitflag mode now follow other similar controls behavior (i.e. click only select one item, shift-click to (de)select several ones). See e.g. transform manipulators selectors, in the header of 3D views (r56706).
• Icon-only expanded enums where still using the label to compute their width, now they just take room needed by the icon (r57576).

Weight Paint

Vertex Weights Panel

• Reworked Weight Paint panel and added make it work in weight paint mode when vertex selection is enabled. (r57468)
• Weight tools such as limit-total, levels, clear - that operate on many groups can now select from active/deformed/non-deformed/all. (r57005)

Sequencer

• Added a mask modifier for sequence strips (r56582).
• Fix naming of strips when adding a bunch of video files at once, previously all strips got the same name (from first file name), now each get a name matching its underlying file (r57610).

Other

• Auto indent for multi-line Python statements in the Python console. (r56558))
• Support for storing text styles in themes (r57275).
• Transformation Constraint now allows applies rotation offsets too (like for location) (r57309)
• 2D painting now supports texture masks and does masking more consistent with projection painting. (r56699)