[Bf-funboard] Critical improvements and features

[David Jeske]

Nobody is suggesting not having selection in the outliner. We are
suggesting having the selection-set for outliner and 3dview being one and
the same thing. If you search and selected datablocks in the outliner, it
would work exactly as it does today EXCEPT it would unselect whatever you
had selected in the 3dview when you did it.

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Using this outliner selection you can search & select any number of
>  mesh datablocks (not mesh objects), and make them local-user, add fake
> user etc.
> There are other operations which apply to World, Group, Materials in a
> list etc.
>
> You could imagine some other way to perform these same actions - just
> noting having outliner selection isn't redundant.
>