In D7510#180589, @Kenn Nyström (Frozen_Death_Knight) wrote:

In D7510#180588, @Connor McCampbell (realeyez) wrote:

This to me defeats the purpose, and will actually take longer than it currently does to perform this action. Virtually no one sculpts by picking objects from a list, and reading object names in a list that could be hundreds of lines long to try to pick something to sculpt on vs. just hovering over the object and firing a hotkey adds an unnecessary layer of obfuscation to something that should be straightforward and simple.

That's not true though. I switch to other mesh objects in the Outliner while sculpting all the time. I don't see why this operation shouldn't work in both the viewport and the Outliner window. Just because a project can have hundreds of objects doesn't mean that such a feature isn't useful. Don't underestimate the power of good scene management by properly naming and using collections.

In D7510#180495, @William Reynish (billreynish) wrote:

Faster, easier and better switching between objects during mode-sessions is really good to improve. But, I would prefer if this was done more holistically in a way that can work for switching objects while in Edit mode, or Armatures in Pose mode and so on. This convention of pressing the S-key in Sculpt mode doesn't seem like it would work in other contexts.

Here's a .blend file with steps to reproduce the issue.