Shift+I no longer opens the Components tab

I can confirm, I have the same problem since a few days now.
Not only that, but it seems the Components tab also forgets whatever filtering or drilling down I had before (e.g. local components vs. library components).

Using the Mac desktop app but it reproduces also in the browser.

Works for me. I’m on Windows 10, Chrome (Figma app and web)

For some reason whenever I open the Resources menu (Shift + i), it no longer defaults focus to the “Components” tab. Instead, it opens to “Plugins” and I have change the tab everytime. I am trying to access Components 1000x more frequently than I am trying to access Plugins, so this is extremely frustrating to have to do every single time I open this menu. It seems like this just started happening in the past few days or weeks? It used to open right into components and it was a very swift workflow to find and insert the component I wanted…

@Vaccaro_Matt When I use the shortcut, I’m defaulted to components (not plugins).

If I switch to plugins from components after opening the resources menu with shift + i, and I close the menu and use the shortcut again, I go to “plugins” immediately instead of components.

Basically it seems like switching to one changes the default for me – if I reopen the file, it goes back to components and stays there. Tried this in both the app and web browser and it works this way on both.

I’m not sure if that entirely made sense, but this is interesting – no matter what you do, it auto-defaults to plugins?

I wanted to reply here to confirm. Very frustrating issue, between the last typed phrase being stuck, to the panel defaulting to plugins and having to manually click the library icon to enable libraries in new files. Not really sure how all of this got broken but would greatly appreciate a fix from Figma.

Same issue here. Having Shift+I defaulting to a tab that is used far less frequently adds unnecessary interactions to user’s workflow. I found myself having to switch tab hundreds of time every session. This is a very unintuitive change, which is strange for Figma, you guys were usually good with UX. What happened?

Giant +1 – please fix!!

Same! Please fix.

The issue still persists… Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t I have no idea…

+1, Same Problem.
At first it works as usual, after some time plugins is opening by default for no reason.
Reopening the App doesn’t help.

Working on a mac
Ventura 13.5 (22G74)
with the desktop app.

Replying here to bump this issue. It is slowing down my workflow significantly. Please revert to opening to the “Components” tab by default. Also, from reading the comments this seems to only be affecting Mac users (I am one as well).

To piggy-back on this, usually when I type a new search into the quick component insert menu it will immediately revert to what I had previously typed the last time I searched for components. This is very frustrating and is costing me a lot of time because it happens constantly.

The “resources” menu that opens when pressing Shift + I seems to have changed recently to search for Plugins instead of Components. I use that menu frequently when inserting components into my designs. It takes extra time to have to click into the “Components” tab since the default is always “Plugins.” Is there a way to change the default search?

Attached is a screenshot of the menu I’m referring to.

Thank you!

Same problem here. No change after restart or after trying to change the “default”. Mac OS

Hi everyone, thank you for reporting this. We have raised this with our engineering team and are investigating further.

Same issue here! Has been happening for a few days now

The issue seems to be also file based. Not all files exhibit this forgetting the tab behaviour. Some older files seem to be having the good old behavior.

Hello there,

It would be great if we can choose what is the default view of ‘Component’ tab in Ressources!

I work on a lot of design files with many different libraries and I would like to have ‘Local components’ or the distance library of the document selected by default instead of ‘Recents’ view which is useless for me. This ‘Recents’ view suggests me most of the time some components of libraries that won’t fit in the open document.

For example, with two clients, or many more, it’s useless for me to have the clients B buttons suggested in the client A design file, just because I worked on client B design file the day before.

Have other people experienced the same problem?

Thanks in advance!

Huge +1, this is really slowing down my workflow!

Is there any way to have faster access to your favorite plugins? In the past, I could access my recent plugins when right-clicking and opening the plugins menu. Now I have to press shift+i and go to the plugins tab and then search for it there. It’s even worse when I can’t remember the name of the plugin. Is there a way of navigating the tabs with some buttons? It takes longer and many more clicks than it used to. Especially, if you work on a big screen.

I don’t have an answer… but Figma’s approach to plugins seems weird…
They are becoming unmanageable… and apparently Figma doesn’t give a fvck about it.

Same issue here and hoping for a response. Shift I brings up the Plugin window which is useless 98% of the time, it should bring up the Component selector which I would assume is used far more frequently…

Everything works as expected now for me. Thanks to the Figma team for the quick resolution!

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