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Every time I enable Auto Layout (AL), the detail setting is set to Hug Contents. I realize that in some cases, it makes sense, but not always. We use the fixed width/height quite often, and changing it manually every time to fixed is pretty annoying.
Probably introduce a user setting for default AL behaviour or remember the last setting used. Meaning that if I used Fixed the last time, it would be the initial setting next time I enable AL.
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AL is a versatile tool, and more flexibility would make it even more user-friendly.
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(e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.
Came here as I was searching for the same issue. It’s minor but it would be a nice quality of life improvement for autolayout to somehow not assume that by default I want everything to be “hug contents”. In fact, the first time I’m drafting a component, more often than not I want it to be fixed and then apply hug contents later (although I realise that’s specific to my workflow)
I would like to set the default for including strokes in layout as well. Just more default settings in general would be a great quality of life improvement.
Recently (~July 2024), the default behavior of how layers react to auto layout is different and very disruptive.
For example, if I have a text layer inside a frame and the text layer set to Fill, and then I press Shift-a to create a new auto layout frame around the text field, it sets the text layer and new auto layout frame to Hug.
Previously the new auto layout frame would inherit the behavior of what’s being wrapped and retain the width setting for the objects inside (text layer in this example). This allows you to then duplicate that layer and stack appropriately. But since everything gets set to Hug, it always behaves exactly how I don’t want it to!
