Blender 4.3: User Interface

General

• Hover tooltips for the Data-block ID selector shows previews for images, movies, and fonts. (8937c0bcab)

ID Selector Tooltips

• Tooltips are never resized with 2D region zooming. (1b6910c61c)
• Color picking from the viewport in Rendering mode now returns the linear color value at that location, without the view transform being applied. (PR#123408)
• "Save Incremental" menu item moved down in its section to reduce accidental selection. (9c4e56e307)
• Windows with a single editor area now show descriptive titles. (554400da9a, 47223553f7, 503cb7bfee)

Window Titles

• Maximum resolution scale increased. Interactive to 3.0X, non-interactive to 6.0X. (cc9bd758c9)

Resolution Scale Increased

• Text weights change correctly if selecting a UI font with non-regular weight. (1992296828)
• "Widget Label" Text Style removed. (108b71047a)
• New Text Style added for tooltips. (5bf44c6eb4)

Tooltip Text Style

• Custom platform-specific mouse cursors added for VSE handle manipulation. (459572b15f, 13795b5df1, 8199da2c1e)

VSE Cursors

• Tooltips no longer always append "." to the end of items. (f2f408bebf, bfa36039c2)
• Padding added to UI List and tree items. (d30d8b4bfa)
• Scroll padding added to VSE & NLA redo panels. (a1338312af)
• File Browser thumbnail file type icon moved to corner of item bounds. (b64cf71c1d)
• "LTS" is added to title bar version string if applicable. (7374077610, 48d55fb420)
• Custom Curve control points are now larger. (90e7331d10, 885824540a)
• Asset Browser: Rename the "All" libraries dropdown entry to "All Libraries" for clarity. (b885562ba7)
• Color sampling performance improvements. (d8f550875b)
• Save Copy operation no longer clears the current file's "dirty" status. (01d5581506)
• Autokeying indicator is now colored red when enabled. (aa78d43a05)

Red Autokeying Button

• Hit size for resizing areas increased. (b04c0da6f0)

Area Edges

• Timeline (and similar editors) hide the scrollbars when they are sized very short. (f40cd831fd)

Slim Timeline

Icons

• All small UI icons now being used directly as separate SVG files, rendered to any size. (cc1f7ef983, 5c377686e7, 21f2d91359, c3377a3498, 6be90285bc)

Large Icons

• Dialogs now using SVG icons directly. (f715f3853f, 983b0b6182, 983b0b6182)
• File Browser now using SVG icons directly. (1d47e3276b, 4d84940253, 7045fb6593, d9971d6414)

File Browser Icons

• About dialog using new SVG system for the Blender logo. (b7256b1ea7)
• Icon design improvements. (bea0c5c914, bfc7e2aea2, ae71f33c75, 989fcc2c4f, 7c68ac258f)
• Now using an unaltered version of the Blender logo throughout. (c46831949, cfe77fbafd)
• Support for full-color icons. (6145920a0d, b63d691570, 30038f1710, 99a4bc325e)
• Multicolor icons can have internal part colors changed to match theme. (cd998d392d, bc43d243bb)
• New geometry set icon. (ae129da4f)
• Splash screen now shows version in white, even in light themes. (fb651c1613)

Status Bar

• New SVG icons now used on status bar. (a57c3be05e, 5fb140a36e)

Status Bar Icons

• Improved Spacing. (fe4c7c4178, 24e6b33942, eba9771ef2)
• More operators using the new system. (f966bb9ed4, c3243f363d)
• Screen operation keymaps info now shown on the Status Bar. (5642944e33, 223d68a733)

Area Docking

• Screen Area Docking added as experimental feature. (e802fe1433, 1404a95dde, f238b44dee, 73e519ded2, 2c4a611be1, f6ae3bf8f3, a9f9062df2, 223d68a733, 8f996f1786, ae3bf84f35, 1d1ea87617, 810687ad5b, 6792d6dfbe, f08ade0523, 04652334f3, c30d7bb458, 9665b32320, a0df365b77)

Spreadsheet

• Support for selecting the viewed geometry from the instance tree. (071b18a3cc)

Keymap

• Assign mouse buttons 4 and 5 to navigate back/next in File Browser. (095aab986b)