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Flip Region operator is not discoverable in 2.90
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System Information
Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
Graphics card: NVIDIA titan Black

Blender Version
Broken: 2.90 fd8d245
Worked: 2.83

Short description of error
New search is not able to find Flip Region operator.
If you type Flip Region in it, it is not found.

Calling this operator by search was the only way to do it with default keymap of previous releases and master.
Because of Region Overlap preference enabled by default, it is not possible to access Right Click menu relative to a region in 3DView operator.

So, if a new user wants to flip toolbar to right side, he will conclude that operator was removed or limited to Tool Settings bar and Header.
But it is not the case, user can still create a shortcut to flip toolbar and sidebar.

( It would be appreciated to be able to flip Adjust Last Operation panels and navigation gizmos, too.
Adjust Last Operation panel is taking space.
It would be great to be able to automatically fuse it in Sidebar when it is on same side or completely opened Toolbar like in 2.79.)

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Press F3 & type "Flip" in search.

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ronan ducluzeau (zeauro) created this task.Jun 13 2020, 2:26 PM
ronan ducluzeau (zeauro) updated the task description. (Show Details)
ronan ducluzeau (zeauro) updated the task description. (Show Details)
TheRedWaxPolice (TheRedWaxPolice) added a subscriber: TheRedWaxPolice (TheRedWaxPolice).Jun 13 2020, 10:19 PM

Enable "Developer Extras"...

Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Confirmed.Jun 16 2020, 3:55 PM
Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) updated the task description. (Show Details)
Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) added a project: User Interface.
Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Bug".
Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) added subscribers: Campbell Barton (campbellbarton), Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii).

@Campbell Barton (campbellbarton), is there any reason for "Flip Region" to only appear with "Developer Extras" enabled?

Duarte Farrajota Ramos (duarteframos) added a subscriber: Duarte Farrajota Ramos (duarteframos).Jun 16 2020, 4:01 PM

As far as I know this operator has traditionally only been accessible through hotkeys, from pre 2.79.

Since now we only show search results for operators that are in menus or UI this has probably been overlooked

Julian Eisel (Severin) moved this task from Backlog to Bugs on the User Interface board.Jun 26 2020, 2:46 PM
Yevgeny Makarov (jenkm) mentioned this in T78583: Missing viewport shortcut to flip panels.Jul 3 2020, 7:06 PM
Ray Mairlot (madog) added a subscriber: Ray Mairlot (madog).Jul 7 2020, 4:46 PM
Richard Antalik (ISS) merged a task: T78583: Missing viewport shortcut to flip panels.Jul 8 2020, 2:21 AM
Richard Antalik (ISS) added subscribers: Sebastian Villanueva (vr_sebas), Richard Antalik (ISS), Yevgeny Makarov (jenkm).
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) triaged this task as Low priority.EditedAug 17 2020, 3:56 AM
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) changed the subtype of this task from "Bug" to "Design".

Currently headers where this makes sense expose this operator in the UI.

If this is exposed more prominently in the UI, we then need to better support such strange configurations.

It's possible someone has setup their regions this way and saved the file, so that's some case where you might need to access the operator again.

Setting as UI design task.

Julian Eisel (Severin) moved this task from Bugs to Known Issues on the User Interface board.Sep 5 2020, 4:56 PM