what we have
what we need:
what we get:
UI team, fix your priorities, pretty please.
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in case you need confirmation that thumbnail is more important than a shortcut dock, here is what a vfx graph heavy project looks like
yeah, good luck finding what you need…
and in contrast, this is what you get in unreal, since 2016
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Meanwhile in the Unity HQ: Team, we need to come up with a solution to prevent our customers from looking at other engines and we need to find it now. 
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as a proof of concept/workaround,
- OnSceneSaved, grab scenecamera view as thumbnail
- Then uses OnPreviewGUI to load thumbnail for selected scene
source:
Would be interesting if can replace scene thumbnail with that grabbed image in project window,
but haven’t looked into that yet…
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Let’s add in the EULA a non-compete clause: users cannot use competing engines 
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Seems like only thing missing is getting RenderStaticPreview() for scene files…
This can be used for scriptable objects and others to set actual custom thumbnails:
also,
SceneTemplates already have snapshot feature (not as the main icon, but almost there…)
*actually scene template does allow setting thumbnail,
** one more alternative,
RenderStaticPreview() for scene seems to render here(?)
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yes Unity6