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[0.19.0-rc.2] No way to do 2-axis/all-but-one-axis operations on translate and scale on transform gizmo

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A-Editor A-Gizmos C-Feature S-Needs-Design
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Description

## What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

Most editors have a way to express a transformation on all but one axis - in blender it's holding shift when either hitting a transform key, or clicking on a given axis, or alternatively moving the coloured quad that is normal to the axis it's related to.

## What solution would you like?

Implement extra clickable gizmos, and either an "excluding axis" marker/bool or an axis variant.
Note, this doesn't make sense for rotation, so it should not be done there. Not sure how to best represent that.

## What alternative(s) have you considered?

Blender, Unity, etc.

This could also be a separate ticket, but also isn't as critical to the core workflow - "combo"/"multitool" gizmos are also quite useful and might be worth adding, but not critical at this time.

https://github.com/urholaukkarinen/transform-gizmo implements all of these options, including the multitool gizmo, though I don't think that makes as much sense here.

## Additional context

Blender examples:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61853dd3-2016-4ebc-a99c-2bdb570c62eb

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a2240aa2-a969-423f-b8a9-8f6ba223933f

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating Bevy's transform gizmo implementation and its translate and scale interaction paths. Compare the requested all-but-one-axis behavior with the linked Blender and transform-gizmo examples, while keeping rotation out of scope. Done means clickable two-axis controls for translation and scaling with a clear axis-exclusion representation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer-graphics, game-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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