Build Chain highlighting in new UI
The old Dependency & Build Chain UIs have a feature where clicking in the empty space of a build's bounding box would highlight it and all the other builds it transitively depends on, as well as drawing their connecting lines with more weight.
This was a great feature for focusing on one particular path in a complex dependency graph. I'm not able to find a similar feature in the new UI -- at least as of 2020.2.4 -- as there are no bounding boxes in the new UI and clicking anywhere on a build's text now presents its popup.
I'm hoping this isn't a regression, and that I just haven't found how to do it in the new UI yet, but if it has regressed, can I humbly request that it be re-added?
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Update: I found that clicking the icon to the left of the build's name in the graph does the expected highlighting, for already-completed builds. However, for builds not yet run, that icon is replaced with a run button.
Is there any way to get the same highlighting behavior for those builds, without running them in the process?