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Something to play with. This patch changes Blend thumbnails to be a capture of the **entire active window**, like this: {F9827239} The idea is that this does a better job representing the project as it is at any moment in time. It is very fast since it does not require rendering the scene, and works with non-rendered projects like Video Editing, Note that the best way to test, once you have this compiling, is just to open any of your existing files, select "File / Save" to update the thumbnail, then immediately select File / Open to see the new thumbnail in File Browser.

Something to play with. This patch changes Blend thumbnails to be a capture of the **entire active window**. The idea is that this does a better job representing the project as it is at any moment in time. It is very fast since it does not require rendering the scene, and works with non-rendered projects like Video Editing, Currently blend thumbnails have lower resolution than our other thumbnails. But it is not possible to fix this in the short term. Therefore the following shows how this idea works with the resolution increased to 256x256 (top two rows) versus current 128x128 (bottom two rows): {F9828212} Note that the best way to test, once you have this compiling, is just to open any of your existing files, select "File / Save" to update the thumbnail, then immediately select File / Open to see the new thumbnail in File Browser.

Something to play with. This patch changes Blend thumbnails to be a capture of the **entire active window**. The idea is that this does a better job representing the project as it is at any moment in time. It is very fast since it does not require rendering the scene, like this:and works with non-rendered projects like Video Editing, {F9827239}Currently blend thumbnails have lower resolution than our other thumbnails. But it is not possible to fix this in the short term. Therefore the following shows how this idea works with the resolution increased to 256x256 (top two rows) versus current 128x128 (bottom two rows): The idea is that this does a better job representing the project as it is at any moment in time. It is very fast since it does not require rendering the scene, and works with non-rendered projects like Video Editing,{F9828212} Note that the best way to test, once you have this compiling, is just to open any of your existing files, select "File / Save" to update the thumbnail, then immediately select File / Open to see the new thumbnail in File Browser.