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Steps to reproduce:
1. Open research queue / technology tree.
2. Click on any unresearched technology providing pipette'able entities.
3. Move cursor on any such item in that technology's Effects tab.
4. Hit Q.

Expected Result 1 (if pipette is supposed to work in queue)
Hovered item appears in cursor as pipette'ed.

Actual Result 1
Cursor does not change.
It's a problem because in fact (see AR2) cursor state and behaviour did changed but end user is given 0 feedback on this.

5. Close tech tree/queue.

ER2 (if pipette is not supposed to work in queue)
Cursor does not change. Nothing is pipette'd. Unresearched tech can't be placed without abusing blueprints borrowed from Trupen.

AR2
Item hovered in tech tree appears as pipette'd and its ghosts can be placed as normal despite it's not researched yet.
It's... I don't think that it's a problem at all but who knows... Being able to premeditate whole sections of base is nice! But, still...

Video: https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... daJkxjSyaV

Ubuntu 24.10 x64, Factorio Experimental stand-alone latest... nothing abnormal, I guess.
GnomeTweaks is installed but since most its theme features prpoduce pug ugly results in 24.10 - I didn't changed cursor, etc.

I definitely think you should not be able to pipette things you haven't researched yet (at least if you have the option enabled to hide unresearched stuff in 'selection lists').

I am going to move this to Not a bug. In general we want all the slots with pipettable stuff to be pipettable for consistency and so if they appear in technology gui, they are pipettable. There is a sound clue that a pipette was performed yet in the technology gui having cursor rendering its content is pretty much useless as it is a full screen gui with no slots to use the cursor. If it aint broken, we wont fix it.