Make GraphEdit more flexible

[lostdisplay]

Describe the project you are working on

A planning app like milanote or masterplan

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

GraphEdit being too inflexible.

It's impossible, requires messing with internal nodes or is really sketchy to do to:

• Hide/disable the UI in the upper-left corner
• Hide/disable the scrollbars
• Make the grid infinite
• Change the form/design of the background
• Make the dragging and zoom animatable (Like Camera2Ds position smoothing)

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Adding options in the inspector

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

See above

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

Almost everything mentioned above is possible by messing with internal nodes. Haven't looked at dragging/zoom smoothing just yet.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

I think giving the user the option to disable UI elements should be considered. Making the grid infinite, custom backgrounds and dragging/zoom smoothing are probably things that shouldn't be integrated into core but at least should not require messing with internal nodes. :)

[Calinou]

Moving to discussion, as there is no concrete technical implementation provided.

A refactor of GraphEdit is being done at godotengine/godot#79308 (merged in 4.2), godotengine/godot#67152 and godotengine/godot#79311 (which still need to be completed).

PS: In the future, please open one proposal per requested feature. This is especially the case when features can be implemented separately from each other (e.g. camera smoothing).