Editor scene tree navigation and selection using keyboard is not intuitive

[doongjohn]

Godot version

4.0 rc6

System information

Windows 11

Issue description

1. Scene tree area loses focus when you hover the mouse to the scene(game) view.
2. Navigating with the arrow keys do not highlight selected node and gizmo is not shown for that node.
3. Shift + arrow does not select multiple nodes.

Steps to reproduce

1. Scene tree area loses focus when you hover the mouse to the scene view.
   • Select scene tree view with the mouse.
   • Hover over the scene view.
   • It loses focus so you can't use arrow keys to navigate scene tree.
2. Navigating with the arrow keys do not highlight selected node and gizmo is not shown for that node.
   • Selected node using mouse has a blue background and the transform gizmo is shown in the scene view.
   • If you use arrow key to select a node in a scene tree, it has no blue background and the gizmo of the node you previously selected with the mouse is still shown.
3. Shift + arrow does not select multiple nodes.
   • Shift + mouse click can select multiple nodes.
   • Shift + arrow up / down does not select multiple nodes. In fact it does nothing.

Minimal reproduction project

N/A

[doongjohn]

Similar issue also applies to the File system area.

[EntroPiGames]

2. Navigating with the arrow keys do not highlight selected node and gizmo is not shown for that node.

I agree that this is very counter intuitive, especially coming from Unity or Blender. It also makes navigating scenes using the Scene dock (which I often do in larger scenes) rather impractical.

Adding an editor input action to select the highlighted Node would be a great first improvement. Pressing enter in the File System dock already selects and opens the selected resource, but in the Scene dock pressing enter renames the Node.

[hsandt]

Adding an editor input action to select the highlighted Node would be a great first improvement. Pressing enter in the File System dock already selects and opens the selected resource, but in the Scene dock pressing enter renames the Node.

Exactly, and both Space and F2 does the same as Enter: renames, but doesn't even select the node. Space and/or Enter could be used for selection, and F2 for rename anyway.

[hsandt]

Interestingly, when debugging the Remote tree works exactly as we want, moving the selection completely (except F2 can't rename).