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Jul 5, 2024 12:57 PM UTC

UI3 - Show Layout Properties (Width/Height/Fill/Hug)

The idea of combining Layout and Auto Layout settings is cool, but the idea of merging two categories of input fields into one is not. It makes the workflow worse, because both settings are important and often you need to see them at the same time. But now Fill/Hug is always visible, and height/width disappears if there is auto layout.

Now to find out the size of an object you have to either 1. look at the bottom edge of your frame (not always possible, you have to scroll down if it’s long), or 2. move the cursor over the size input field (which is a time-consuming movement), or 3. make the right panel very wide (which eats up the working area).

There’s no benefit to combining important settings. In any case, even in the new interface there are so many of these settings that they go into the scroll anyway.

So please let these inputs live separately ❤️


(video demonstrates the problem described above)

    16 replies

    Danny_Giebe
    Jul 19, 2024 9:20 AM UTC

    If I select an auto layout element, I can’t see the height and width directly, as I now have to hover over fill/hug to see the height or width of an element. Makes it more complicated to quickly see the values. Please separate the height / width and auto layout setting again in UI3

      Mike_Hone
      Mike_Hone
      New Participant
      Jul 19, 2024 6:52 PM UTC

      Please think about having a separate input in the new Beta UI so you can always see the Width and Height. It is super annoying that you have to hover over the input to see height and width.

        Dennis_Kuiper
        Dennis_Kuiper
        New Member
        Jul 20, 2024 5:31 AM UTC

        omg… I dont want the new UI at all.

          djv
          Figmate
          djv
          Community Support
          Jul 22, 2024 4:09 PM UTC

          Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

          We’ll pass this onto the UI3 team for future consideration. Don’t forget to vote up top, if you haven’t yet! ☝️

          The team uses votes from the community to gauge overall interest and prioritize.

          Direct_Access
          Direct_Access
          New Participant
          Jul 23, 2024 10:04 AM UTC

          The issue Danny addressed is not limited to height/width. In many area’s it requires a hover or an extra click to unveil information that I need to know on a regular basis. To sum up a few

          • Corners - If the corners are not all equal it shows… but it doesn’t show the values, so extra click to see or edit
          • Positioning - For ignore autolayout the nice align-tool is hidden
          • Clipping - If i want to toggle the clipping to “snow content” i have to select from a dropdown, but switching between to values now requires two clicks, while back in the days it was just one
          • state - In the context-menu while in prototypemode you have to open some fold-out part of the menu to see two extra fields… that could have been shown all the time anyways.

          It would be lovely if these extra clicks would be removed; I rather have a bit more ugly UI than one that requires clicks and hovers to know the system-status or toggle some values I often edit

            Cory_McKinnon2
            Cory_McKinnon2
            New Member
            Jul 23, 2024 2:42 PM UTC

            I appreciate that you want to reduce vertical space in the right panel but there is TOO MUCH hiding of options.

            I really need to see the pixel width and height when I am manipulating an element even when its in auto layout.

            Hiding the width and height values is annoying as hell. I have way too many clicks when manipulating layout properties for elements.

            Good try, but you went a bit too far trying to save space on this particular area.

            So far I life everything else.

              djv
              Figmate
              djv
              Community Support
              Jul 23, 2024 3:56 PM UTC

              Thanks for the additional context, @Direct_Access!

              I’ll pass this onto the team as well.

                Luka_Nesek
                Luka_Nesek
                Jul 24, 2024 11:39 AM UTC

                Fully agreed, also for me, auto layout allign square picker is not square any more its stretched horizontaly like rectangle and it’s much harder now to pick Allign bottom left, middle and top because they’re too close to each other.

                " Make Auto Layout Allign Box Square Again! "

                Mike_Hone
                Mike_Hone
                New Participant
                Jul 25, 2024 2:26 PM UTC

                I agree with @Direct_Access. I can’t even find the positioning tool for where a frame is anchored. You can barely see the icon.

                The
                TheAuthor
                Active Member
                Jul 25, 2024 3:58 PM UTC

                Here, you can vote for it too UI3 Feedback: Constraints settings are hidden

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