Reference/Release Notes/4.1/User Interface

User Interface

General

• Input Placeholders to show a hint about the expected value of an input. (b0515e34f9).

• Cryptomatte picking can now occur between separate windows. (9ee5de05c0).
• The UI interface font can now be shown in any weight. (0bde01eab5).

• Khmer font added to support a new translation of that Cambodian language. (3f5654b491).
• New icons added to represent area splitting, joining, and swapping. (153dd76d22, 8933284518).
• Wide Enum lists will now collapse to a single column if not enough space. (83ce3ef0db).
• Changing UI font in Preferences will now start in your OS Fonts folder. (d3a2673cb8).
• File Browser List View removes columns and reformats as width is decreased. (07820b0703).
• Improved Color Picker cursor indication and feedback. (c11d5b4180).

• Outliner Context Menu "Show Hierarchy" and "Expand/Collapse All". (4793b4592b, f815484e7d).
• Text Object fonts now look in the fallback stack when characters are not found. (604ee2d036).

• Animation marker drawing improvements. (0370feb1bf).
• Improved corner rounding for menus and popup blocks. (42ddc13033).

• Improved quality of menu and popup block shadows. (0335b6a3b7).
• Improved initial display of compositor node trees. (ff083c1595).
• New Text Objects will use translated "Text" as default. (5e38f7faf0).

• Eyedropper can now pick colors outside the Blender window on Mac. (639de68aaa).
• Open Recent menu items now show blender version and thumbnail if available. (0b0e0601a1).
• Open Recent menu now includes "Clear Recent Files List" item. (1ccc958150).
• Background Images can now be shown with render color transforms applied. (29b1658124).
• File Browser tooltips now show blender version, image dimensions, video details, etc. (cd4328dd82).

• Some changes and corrections to the Text Object "Special Characters" menu. (0251701cd6).

Viewport

• Walk mode now supports relative up/down (using R/F keys) (c62009a6ac).
• Improved Mesh Edge Highlighting. (dfd1b63cc7).