Godot: Don't change workspace on node select

[TrickyWidget]

Godot, 64-bit, 3.06.stable.official.8314054
Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, Version 1803, Build 17134.165

In the Scene dock, whenever a node is selected, the workspace is automatically switched to 2D/3D. When I'm focused on coding, this is very annoying. I'd very much like to stay in the Script workspace. It would be a great boon to have an option in Editor Settings to disable this behavior and just leave open whatever workspace is current.

Thanks for all your hard work!

[PetePete1984]

Number one reason why I usually code in an external editor, right here - the context switching is incredibly distracting. You want to double-check some Node's properties while coding and you're out of it.

[ghost]

If you only change the workspace by middle-click in a node, would be great

[eon-s]

Or double click, but is already on viewport focus.

Or, "leave select without changing context" to middle click (or key combination+ click) to not affect much the current workflow.

[ghost]

@eon-s Thinking better, Ctrl+Left Click to change workspace is better. What if we open an issue suggesting this?

[TrickyWidget]

I'm not too particular, so long as there's some way to make a normal left-click leave the workspace alone.

[williamd1k0]

Tbh I like the current behavior, so I would suggest a button to pin the script workspace as well as the pin of the animation player dock.

[swarnimarun]

I like the idea of pinning a workspace.
And probably the ability to pin the bottom panels too. Especially for the Visual Shader and Animation Player.

[andrejp88]

Any progress on this? Maybe a simple solution with minimal UI changes is a toggle in the editor settings.

[Keetz]

Since Godot 3.2.x I am beginning to see a lot more automatically context switching that I haven't seen before.

For example, when loading a scene (from script) in the running game, it changes to the 2D/3D view.

Sometimes it is like the editor is in a "bad state" and it kind of changes to the 2D view on completely unrelated actions, for example I experience it changing to 2D when pressing "ctrl + s" to save my script, which is really annoying.

[KoBeWi]

Closing this in favor of newer and more detailed discussion issue: #39539