Please give us the option to dock the left & right panels.
The edge of the work area is part of your UI! The new floating panels change the workflow so much.
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The Ruler Tool is now weird because the left side of the ruler is appearing at the left of Panel 1 instead of at the left of the main work area.
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A lot of my tasks involve Select + Dragging to Scroll the page to select more elements. Before this is too easy to do. Just Drag your mouse past the edges of the Workarea. Now it’s harder, because the left & right edges of the workarea are at the leftmost and rightmost edges of the Figma Window.
WORKAROUND: Hide the panels, drag stuff, show the panels again.
TRUE SOLUTION: Allow panels to be truly docked.
RELATED IMPORTANT REQUEST:
- Please change the shortcut of Minimize/Restore UI to the TAB Key or BACKTICK “`” Key.
- Reason: I don’t want to lose my mouse hand just to press Shift+/ – especially if you need to do this often during presentations.
As for your changes in the Panel Contents, I have a few complaints, but generally I’m OK with them.
My pain point really are the floating panels.
Working with Docked Panels VS Floating Panels has a similar experience to working with Photoshop (Docked Panels) and GIMP (Floating Panels). It’s harder to manage the workspace because floating panels are generally annoying, obscures the view, and puts the edge of the workspace to the very edges of the Figma Window.