[Feature Request]: There could be an option to show the input/output slots to the sides of widgets

[bluewanderer]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues and checked the recent builds/commits

What would your feature do ?

Currently the slots don't share vertical space with widgets. If a node has a lot of inputs or outputs, the upper half of it is almost wasted. It looks like:

o        o
o        o
o        o
         o
 ========
 ========

And this would be much nicer:

o          o
o          o
o ======== o
  ======== o

There can be an option to toggle how a specific node or all nodes are shown.

Proposed workflow

1. Open the context menu of a node
2. Select "Toggle compact view"
   or
3. Select a node
4. Press the toggle hotkey
   or
5. Open the context menu
6. Select "Show all slot in the old/compact way"

Additional information

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[JorgeR81]

Yeah, I'd like to have a "compact view".

The problem is that in many nodes, the slots are not related to the widgets:

The slot labels could be hidden, in "compact view", but:

• this would only work for colored slots ( since we already know their meaning ).
• the "compact" slots would end up being aligned with widgets that have nothing to do with them, which would be confusing.

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If we had a "compact view", I think it could work like Collapse Connections in rgthree nodes.

This would also allow "locking" the wires, once they all are connected, to prevent accidental disconnection.

[JorgeR81]

Aesthetically, I think this would look pretty good.

Especially if we use "bus" nodes.

If we collapse both ends, all wires will be superimposed, for a cleaner look.

But with this feature, we would still be able to access all widgets, even with collapsed connections.