@realkotob this looks great - are you still maintaining it or is it abandoned though?

Isn't the linked proposal better addressed by #84018?

The proposal mentions that scene clutter is an issue, which this checkbox won't solve, and it only suggests adding this checkbox as a solution to the problem of having to right click editable children all the time, which #84018 does solve because exposed nodes are visible in the tree

@passivestar I just saw that PR and I agree that it is a good contribution, but I still have a concern about that PR.

First of all, the number of clicks required for quick iteration will increase instead of decrease after #84018 is merged, because instead of just right clicking to making all nodes exposable by default as we can now, I would have to select which ones I want to expose. Even in the best case if there is an "Expose All" button that is still 3 additional, extra clicks: open panel, press expose all, save & close.

So that means even after that feature is merged, it would be nice to have an editor setting that automatically makes all nodes exposed by default, then users can then go into that scene to de-select which nodes are exposed when they want to get more control and tidy up the view.

If this PR is merged (and I think it should, because it makes life much easier), then it can be re-purposed later to have the same purpose but affect the new Exposed Nodes feature.

Edit: Similar concern voiced by AdriaandeJongh here #84018 (comment)

The point of that PR is not to reduce the number of clicks, but to promote encapsulation and minimize scene tree clutter. The number of cases where I'd want all the nodes of scene to be editable is close to zero. I don't mind this PR being merged, just as an option, but I sincerely hope we don't get this in place of #84018.

I sincerely hope we don't get this in place of #84018.

no worries! these two PRs are not mutually exclusive at all.

@Nikola526 Yes I also hope both PRs get merged, as they really address different modes/phases of development. Sometimes you want to just have everything editable by default (game jams, quick prototypes) and sometimes you want to be very explicit about what you are exposing (during production, working in teams, etc).

This is similar to the difference between using static typing in godot or not: sometimes you just want to get things moving, other times you care about correctness.

As mentioned above, the ideal scenario is that #84018 gets merged and we get to pick to have everything exposed by default when a node is set as editable, and then we can override that to select which ones we want to keep exposed (so that new added nodes in that scene do not get automatically exposed as well).
This would be the best of both worlds approach and maintains cohesion with what we have now in the public release (when something is made editable everything is exposed).