P: Floating panels/toolbars

Simple answer is you don't. You can Close, Collapse, the Preset panel.  Or you could turn it off, Hide it. You can also Collapse your presets into the top level categories so they don't take up so much room. 
You can put that panel into solo mode where only one section is open at a time. Click on the Header of another section closes the one you were in and opens the other.

Would it be nice to UnDock them. I guess it would.

it would be nice if you could separate the panels. the most precise example I can make is for example the history panel, from the presets panel. it is not possible that I have to scroll through all my 350 presets in order to see the story of a photo

Imagine if Adobe put energy into making what the users wanted, instead of stuff like Muse...

I want to see my folders and collections at the same time. I want to have multiple windows open like I can in Bridge. Or at least let me pull the panels out, rearrange them and have them float. Just make the interface like Bridge... I hate scrolling forever in the folders panel, and then I can't see my collections. Going back and forth is very time consuming. LR is streamlined to edit, not to organize. I use it primarily to organize and it's faster for me to organize in Bridge and then Synchronize my folders in LR classic. This request has been around for years. LR (not classic) is way faster for editing, please optimize LR classic for organizing.

I would like to see Lightroom support a modular window design similar to Premiere. For example, I'd like to be able to drag the folders section to a second screen, and then also resize it. And maybe do the same for the metadata section of the Library tab and move it to a different screen and size it. Thanks!

That is reassuring that this feature was already requested 6 years ago... and still no progress? Any chance that it might be considered soon?

In most Adobe applications, you have the possibility to undock specific windows. See for example this in Premiere Pro:




This window can then be positioned anywhere one wants, including an another screen.


I often use more than one screen, but unfortunately Lightroom doesn't really support any useful multiscreen features.

Instead of being able to undock all the different editing tools in develop mode, I spend most of my editing time in Lightroom endlessly scrolling. (I checked and its about 50% of my editing time!!)

Please Adobe, enable this feature! It would be great to have one screen for the full screen image and clutter all the other screens with the editing tools.

Isn't it ironic that using Lightroom, as a photographer, one hardly looks at one's photos in full screen?...

Thank you for any consideration!

It would be great if it were possible to undock the develop panels, just like in photoshop, so we can make better use of our screen area. right now when using many of the develop options you have to keep scrolling endlesly up and down to find the correct sliders. especially on using ultrawidescreen monitors, i have a very big unused area...

I apologize if this has been suggested already. I did a quick search and didn't find any similar suggestions...

I have two 24" monitors attached to a computer with an intel i7 quad core processor (albeit an older 950 model quad core) and I still find performance sluggish in the develop module. I have read that using a second monitor, and especially a LARGE second monitor can exacerbate performance issues.

My eyesight isn't what it used to be and I prefer to do my editing with my image 1:1 in loupe mode in the second monitor. Since this seems to be detrimental to performance, I was wondering if Adobe had ever considered creating detachable panels so that I could still have my image full screen in one monitor and use the other monitor just for my edit panels? (I believe you can already do this in photoshop?) Would this approach help address performance issues for those who prefer to edit with a full screen image window?