LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

This is long overdue.

I can’t reach the layers. The limitation of the maximum width of the menu and the lack of scrolling do not allow this.

Please correct this mistake. Currently, you can only interact with these layers with shortcuts…

How is this being left unattended? You have a design tool, that makes it so that people cannot navigate all the way into their layer hierarchy

It’s not being left unattended. As I mentioned last month, we already have something in the works - stay tuned!

Was super excited (and hopeful) that this would be addressed in the redesigned UI announced during Config today. Unfortunately, nope, at least not from what I see. I’m really struggling to understand why this blatant fail in the product UI/UX has still not been dealt with after 3.5 years. But hey, AI can rename your layers that you won’t be able to see or access.

do you even realize the blatantly obvious difference between resizing and overflow with horizontal scrolling?

Hey @aolko,

Of course we do! But with UI3 still in beta, this is just the 1st iteration.

This topic’s feedback is a combination of the desire to expand as well as horizontal scroll. Join the waitlist to test out UI3, then let us know how your layers look and feel on it. There’s still time to improve - we’re listening!

Thanks @dvaliao appreciate the quick response. No, I don’t have UI3 yet. I got prompted to try it, but the link just takes me to a Figma file with info only.

I agree with @aolko that resizing and scrolling is completely different. The resizing works if you’re viewing in a large browser.

But if you’re working on a laptop, I reckon that I’ll have to (potentially) resize to almost half, if not more, of my canvas width. So yeah, the horizontal scrolling is still a necessity (in addition to the resize).

We hear you, @sooz888.

With UI3 still in beta, we can advocate for horizontal scroll. The team can still make improvements - stay tuned!

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