What?
I would like to be able to quickly set a black- or whitelist for a deconstruction planner without selecting items one by one in the menu.Why?
For example, I often find myself using deconstruction planners to remove only train signals or everything except power poles/roboports. To do this I need to create a planner and manually set filters from the huge item lists (that are already big in vanilla and can become even bigger in modded). However, doing exactly this while looking directly at the factory will result in a more streamlined experience and take less time too. Current player solution is creating a book with planners and placing it on the hotbar, but it is not perfect.Possible implementations
Simpler one is to add a couple of hotkeys. Option I like the most: while holding a blank deconstruction planner press "Shift + Pipette" to add an item/building under the cursor to the whitelist and "Ctrl + Pipette" to add it to the blacklist. Another variant: while hovering over an item/building press "Shift + Create deconstruction planner" to create a planner with this item whitelisted, "Ctrl + Create deconstruction planner" - blacklisted.I'm pretty sure there are more options to achieve this (for example, selecting buildings themselves and marking them for deconstruction with a key, but I see absence of this in particular as an intentional design choice) and I don't really see how this can be implemented for upgrade planners (minor consistency issues?), so specifics are, of course, left to the developers. In the meantime, it would be nice if someone is able to make a mod that does that.
Edit: why did I call deconstruction planners "destruction" instead...