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mne.viz.Brain modernization

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Since Aug 23, 2026.

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Describe the new feature or enhancement

working with mne.viz.Brain GUI, I think we can significantly improve it:

  • colorbar currently shows numbers with no context, also we can improve the font and size
  • background color can only be chosen when initiating Brain, we could also add str color options (in the docs says tuple (int, int, int))
  • better Help dialog
  • when an annot is selected we could click on or select a parcel and see the extract_label_time_course signal
  • maybe highlighting (a) parcel(s)
  • show vertex coordinate and camera orientation when hovering mouse
  • better foci visualization
  • better trace viewer
  • most of the args in the mne.viz.Brain are missing in the GUI
  • more keyboard shortcuts
  • collapsable panels
  • ...

I'm happy to open PRs, but I would like to first see your opinions, tnx @larsoner @drammock @wmvanvliet

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