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Fix T64649: Deprecated Annotation editing causes a crash

The Edit option was removed from annotations and the buttons must not be in the panel.

GPencil: Invert Fade Object slider

The Fade Objects and Fade Layers parameters had opposite meaning and this was not correct.

Now, both parameters work in the same direction.

Theme: don't use red as hue for shading icons.

It can be confused with an error or something wrong in the UI.

Theme: Darker grid.

Theme: match outliner/properties colors with modes in viewport.

Helps to:
* Make a connection between what we see in Outliner, Viewport and Properties editor
(clicking on the obdata icon takes us to Edit mode, which shares colors).
* Quickly tell which mode we are in.
* Armatures have now distinct color when in Object, Edit, and Pose modes.

Missing is Pose mode which is currently cyan in the viewport and obdata category in properties,
it would probably need its own special category though as it doesn't match the others.

Objects: new 3D cursor alignment option when adding objects

The choices are now World, View and 3D Cursor.

This breaks Python API compatibility, add-ons that add objects with this
parameter will need to be updated.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4706

Rename StridedArrayRef to MappedArrayRef

Merge branch 'master' into functions

Fix T64634: Incorrect type casting in versioning code

initial StringCollection class

space_file: fix build error with msvc.

Both windows.h and wm_types.h define HKEY, moving wm_types after windows.h
sidesteps the issue, since HKEY isn't used in fsmenu.c it doesn't cause
problems.

Fix missing separator before Save System Info with Developer Extras on

Sculpt: Mask by color operator

Similar to mask by normal, this operator generates a mask based on the
color of the active vertex.

Fix T63748: Long startups after network drives are disconnected.

We need to make those paths validation async, since some infamous OS is
unable to provide a quick way to check whether a path is valid or not...

Not much to say here, this is basic wmJob stuff really... We don?t even
need complex threaded coordination locks or atomics, given how simple
the changes are here.

Fake-tested with some `sleep()` calls to add atificial delay, seems to
work as expected.

UI: make sidebars in 3D view and other editors a little wider and consistent

Lights: reduce default strength of sun light to 1.0

Lights: change sun light size to be specified as angle

This is the angular diameter as seen from earth, which is between 0.526� and
0.545� in reality. Sharing the size with other light types did not make much
sense and meant the unit was unclear.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4819

Fix T64650: missing topbar update when changing brush in sculpt mode

Mesh Filter: Multithreaded initialization and masked node filtering

This should improve performance a lot, making the tool usable on several
millions of vertices. If the mesh is partially masked, only the unmasked
nodes are going to be processed, so it is possible to isolate parts of a
high poly mesh using the mask and work with them in real time.

I also changed the random displacement initialization to avoid
allocating a huge amount of memory (it wasn't really necessary)

UI: remove splash from help menu

Already accessible in the app-menu.