Add a pin to the inspector to prevent it from changing.

[theraot]

With the camera in the inspector, instead of it being a separate dock, when you unselect the camera the preview goes away, which is an issue if you want to place the camera, and then move objects into frame. Being able to pin the inspector would address this.

There is a proposal:

• Add a Pin button to the Inspector dock #9265

It is closed by this PR:

• Add a pin toggle to prevent involuntary bottom editor switching godot#98074

Which adds a pin to the bottom panel, but not the inspector dock.

So, I'm asking for the proposal to be reopened: #9265 (comment)

(And I'm posting this because I don't know if a comment in a closed proposal will be seen)

[CarpenterBlue]

I feel like that doesn't really address the issue, just offsets it? It will breed it's own issue that the Inspector is really necessary for it to not be pinned for proper editing.

[theraot]

Fair. I would have preferred it was a separate dock myself. In fact, I have use an addon that works like that.

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While I'm only paying attention to this because of the camera preview. This is not the only motivation users might have. In fact, the original request is older than the proposal I linked, see:

• Lock Tool Windows like Inspector #6064

And there they show Unity has this feature (I'm not saying we have to copy everything Unity does, but if people can live with it in Unity, I'd think people can live with it in Godot). That proposal, by the way, was migrated to discussions:

• Lock Tool Windows like Inspector #6065

And there we see it has some demand. So it is not just me, and not just the the camera preview.

Now I'm thinking that perhaps the proposal I'm requesting to reopen didn't have the right focus (I'm thinking that because it didn't have a positive reception). Yet, I'll exhaust that before considering if I should open a new one.