EasyWeight

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• Fix hotkey preferences not getting saved.
• Preferences in general are now stored on disk so they are preserved when disabling the add-on, just like most of my other add-ons.
• Fix Vertex Group context menu was not getting overridden (broken by code auto-formatter?)
• Turn Symmetrize Weights operator into a pop-up for better UX, no functional changes.
• Fix an error in the Operators sub-pie when in weight paint mode without an armature.

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Fix a crash with the Gradient tool while Weight Cleaner is enabled.

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A big polishing pass to address all the issues I've ran into in recent months using the add-on.

New:

• Entering Weight Paint mode no longer requires a special operator and hotkey. Just enter weight paint mode any way you like, and the Armature will appear in pose mode and with x-ray.
• Split up W pie menu's functionality to sub-pie-menus for Operators and Overlays. Mainly because otherwise the UI was too big and caused buttons to trigger due to the drag distance threshold, making it awkward to use.
• Added Smooth, Transfer, and Symmetrize operators to the W->Operators sub-pie.
• Fix Symmetrize Weights operator not working with "Selected Bones" option.
• Symmetrize Weights now also automatically determines symmetrizing direction based on selected bone names. Selecting bones from both sides will still result in an error. Selecting only center bones will default to Left->Right.
• Weight Cleaner now also ensures Mirror Groups, so you don't have to initialize opposite side groups when weight painting with a Mirror Modifier.

Weight Islands:

• Selecting an entry in the list now selects the corresponding vertex group.
• There's now an ugly progress tracker for Calculate Weight Islands, since it can take a few seconds for a dense mesh, now you can be sure it's not frozen.
• Fixed an edge case where focusing the smallest weight island would fail, when the opposite side vgroup has less than 2 weight islands.
• Added a button to clear weight island data, so you don't have to store unnecessary data after you're done using it.
• Focusing the smallest weight island should be a lot faster now, although still not instantaneous.

Fixes:

• Fix Focus Deforming Bones sometimes failing to reveal necessary bone collections.
• Fix accumulation of app handlers.

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• Fix merge error in previous update

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• Add Force Apply Mirror operator to the UI

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Review feedback:

• Add poll fail messages to all cases of all operators

This loses support for some ancient Blender versions, minimum version is now 3.0.