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@Figma ^^^ This issue has comments disabled, but it’s still a problem. When are you going to fix it?

I’m hoping for a Figma Make integration for Gitlab like they did for Github so I can more easily share the code with developers at my company. I think the workaround is to ‌download a zip from Figma Make and place into a project in an IDE like VSCode to then connect to Gitlab. It’s not ideal, especially for designers.Hopefully I’m not missing a better solution that exists.

When using Auto Layout for an entire page flow, not everything is spaced equally. For example, imagine a page like: Toolbar Heading Paragraph Input Button To put all of these into a single Auto Layout and give equal spacing to all of it is not typically how it’d work (eg, Toolbar + Heading might be close together, but more spacing around above and below the Input). To use the benefits of Auto Layout, I wrap these objects into their own Auto Layout frames and then use the padding within these nested frames to create the spacing between elements. It’d be great to be able to apply margins to objects (like text frames or other frames) without having to first nest them into their own individual frames. This would be closer to how CSS typically works as text elements (h1, h2, p, …) don’t need to be nested in a div to have margin added to them.

I think it would be really cool to have a feature on our community pages to have a section for portfolio. The idea would be you can share projects/case studies as well as bucket items. I’d love to just use my Figma community profile but I don’t want to share projects that others can download at times. There could be something pretty cool here. 

Why you placed this button so far? It would be nice to group all the buttons together. Now I have to move my cursor far from other actions I’m working with.  

Hi! First of all-- congratulations on the release of CMS! I’m already super excited to create stuff with it and I’ve been playing around with it this morning. Hereby my humble feature requests for the future of CMS!Categories and tags with separate pages for their content. Search and date picker (for events) functionality. I would love to see component swapping supported inside CMS, so that I can pick a different component per CMS article if I want to highlight it on my list with a special component for example. (A feature like this would be ~ incredibly ~ powerful.) Or/and, the ability to change page variables in a CMS item, so you can for example change the colors of the page based on the variables set in the item. The ability to connect CMS fields to the SEO, so you can attach a meta description and social sharing image to each CMS article. The ability to hide CMS items from lists but still have them in your database and vi

Hello everyone! I think having a shortcut to open/close the local variables would be very helpful. For example in cases where I’m prototyping and need to access the local variables to ensure the accuracy of the variable names or values that I’m assigning in the interactions. Currently, if I want to do this, I have to switch between the prototype panel to the design panel in order to open the local variables, check them and then go back to prototype. Note: I am aware that it is possible to keep the local variables window open, but this often leads to numerous bugs in the prototype. For example, when it is open, I am unable to drag the prototype interactions to reorder them.

Figma supports enabling/disabling some OpenType features from the UI.https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/4913951097367-Use-OpenType-features From the plugin API I can see which features are being enabled withhttps://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/api/properties/TextNode-opentypefeatures/but the property is read-only. How can I programmatically enable/disable some OpenType features?Also, is there a reason why it’s accessible on UI but not Plugin API?

I’m surprised that after three years, FigJam still doesn’t support vertical text alignment in shapes. This has been a longstanding request (as evidenced by this older forum thread), and it’s a must-have for creating clean and professional-looking diagrams. Being able to align text to the top, center, or bottom of a shape is a standard feature in most design and diagram tools, and its absence in FigJam makes it harder to organize content quickly and consistently. Please consider adding vertical text alignment options to improve productivity and the overall user experience in FigJam.

Organization would be immensely helpful if we could create folders for our drafts. I want to be able to organize my drafts into different categories (such as UI kits, Ideas, Wireframe kits, iOS, Android, etc…) so I can find files easily. Right now, the drafts page is a huge jumbled mess and I can’t create Team pages for everything. Maybe something as simple as being able to add ‘tags’ to each file, similar to Zeplin.

Hi everyone, As you know, being able to add negative padding is a must when creating design systems. However Figma only allow negative values in the inner-spacing between elements in auto-layout. We found a workaround and thought it would be useful to share it with the community. If you define a local variable, type number, and add a negative value (e.g. -4px), you can then apply this variable to the auto-layout padding and it will work. In summary: use local variables to define negative values and apply such variable to the padding.

Similar to linking the string variable to component properties to update the variantWhy not component linking with same solution? Just need to have same structured nameThis enables component usage mapping, figma make also can easily configure the global component if we have this function ready and running

I would love to see the ability to define a set of brand colors within a Figma Buzz template that end users can easily apply to (parts of) text.Specifically, it would be great if template creators could: Add a predefined selection of brand colors to the template. Make these colors available as text color options for users of the template. Allow users to apply these colors to specific words or text selections (not just entire text blocks). Use case:For branded social posts or marketing materials, users often want to emphasize or highlight a specific word in a headline or sentence using a brand color.At the moment, users can technically change text colors by unlocking the template. However, this removes all restrictions.What’s missing is a controlled middle ground: Users should be able to select a word and apply one of the predefined brand colors.

It’s a distraction to look at the files that I won’t be using again. I want few files to be stored but not as active ones. It’s better if we have tabs or statuses for the files like active and archived. Did you guys feel the same?

Another post requesting some way to differentiate pinned tabs from each other.The option to change the favicon, colored, or letting the title run into an ellipses — one of these or all of the above. As it stands right now,  having them as a small squares with no way to tell them apart doesn’t make them nearly as useful.

I’d love to be able to copy and paste conditionals/variables statements, this would save time and errors. For example, I used a similar if statement multiple times and just needed to change 1 or 2 variables and numbers. But to do so, I had to re-write the statements every time.

I really like the idea of having the UI panels auto hide/show on hover from the left and right edges. It makes the whole experience feel much cleaner and more focused, especially when you want to fully immerse yourself in the working space. You still get quick access to the panels without them constantly being in the way, which feels nice and intuitive.

The title just about summarizes my issue. Developers until recently had access to ruler measurements and annotations with their Dev Mode seats. Recently, these tools were stripped from them. I don’t understand why only designers can measure distances or leave annotations, so long as they are not editing files, why should Devs be unable to annotate or inspect files using the tools Figma designed for Devs to inspect files?Good design practice in Figma often requires us to build things differently than they would be built with actual HTML/CSS. with Autolayout in mind, it’s better to determine the space between objects rather than apply padding to the top of Divs as many devs would do. However, when a dev wants to measure the total space between elements, they should be able to use rulers to make the measurement THEY need and not the one Figma decided they should have. Why were these tools stripped from Developers? We’re already on an Organization plan, paying quite a lot

I’m often going through my Recents to find my files, and will often click on the file I’m looking for that comes up first - whether it’s the prototype or the design file. It’s annoying that they’re saved differently. I wish they were condensed into one item that could give me the choice (open as proto? open as design?). Though, also, I’m also almost never trying to open up the proto from my library. I’m almost always going to the design file.  

Hello, it would be nice to have the option to insert floating components inside text (like Emojis). Use case would be for signs or infos in complex dashboards. Its a hustle to do this now manually and also set kind of boundingboxes to sync different heighs of text and component. Regards

I think Buzz is a great idea - along with social media templates, maybe email templates could be a cool addition as well (if Buzz is a bucket for all things promotional)

Our team is automating workflows with AI, and we’re loving Figma Make. Only thing is, we can’t collaborate via comments like we’re used to in Figma. Any way to drop comments/feedback right in Make so we’re not bouncing between tools or risking things getting lost?

In the Figma editor, you can change the blend mode and opacity for Sections. But blendMode and opacity properties is missing in both Plugin API and REST API, so it is not possible to read/write it. Please add these properties to the SectionNode object.

I prefer to use my mouse to drag font size up and down to dial things in but the interaction zone must be 1 pixel in size at the moment. In comparison, the drag zone for line stroke is massive and never an issue. I’d be so happy to have this improved, although my mouse accuracy has gone up as a result XD 

Is it possible to change default font in Figma? (from Inter to Mardoto)