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

• Tool-tips 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 tool-tips. (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 all items. (f2f408bebf, bfa36039c2, 7b0c18afb4)
• 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 drop-down 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 scroll-bars when they are sized very short. (f40cd831fd)

Slim Timeline

• Option to clear only items not found from the Recent Files list. (4317f50f5f)
• Items not found on the Recent Files list are no longer removed automatically. (5bb7f06409)

Removing Recent Not Found

• Dialogs now show a different cursor at the top to indicate they can be dragged. (0e690d3abb, 442fd1925e, a5779347b6)
• ID Search lists increased in width. (019d987072)
• Color Picker revamped. (5cfe733f84)

Color Picker Revamp

• Editor edge highlighting to indicate active area. (28e5c1412e, 89d7f00ff8, 44168c32ff)

Editor Edge Movement

• Highlight feedback when dragging editor edges. (b2eb8cc0df)

Editor Area Highlight

Icons

• All small UI icons now being used directly as separate SVG files, rendered to any size. (cc1f7ef983, 5c377686e7, 21f2d91359, c3377a3498, 6be90285bc, 445b609e2d, 9ee86c589d)

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, 5285d7b859)
• 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, 2859eabd1c)
• Status bar cleared during text input and other modal operations. (0c1d8ad8a5)

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

• New ability to move editor areas to any other area by dragging (e802fe1433, 1404a95dde, f238b44dee, 73e519ded2, 2c4a611be1, f6ae3bf8f3, a9f9062df2, 223d68a733, 8f996f1786, ae3bf84f35, 1d1ea87617, 810687ad5b, 6792d6dfbe, f08ade0523, 04652334f3, c30d7bb458, 9665b32320, a0df365b77, 382244c258, aa5385f648, 8450aa275f, bfe693c8c2)

Docking

Docking

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)

Nodes

• Node groups can now have a default node width (e842966c5e).
• Built-in nodes can have line separators now (246c513f92).
• Panel descriptions show up when hovering over them now (c0179a1b78).
• String sockets can now use placeholders instead of labels to make the input field wider (a6d5652043).
• Inserting nodes with link-drag-search is much more convenient now (83fa565ec2).

Platforms

• macOS : New "Hand"-style mouse cursors added for dialog and docking interaction. (458c60269b, 72a0be0944)

Hand Mouse Cursors

• macOS: Image copy/paste support in the Image Editor (92d00678ac)