P: Floating panels/toolbars

With more and more tools and sliders in LR, the need for floating panels gets bigger and bigger. LR`s UI was okay for version 1 or 2.

I would also love the ability to have floating panels. I've never felt that Lightroom takes very good advantage of the two-monitor workflow. My other wish is to be able to have two Grid panels open so that manual sorting is wasier.

i''m with the cause.. i would like to have the floating panels to use on my second monitor

I'd love to see an option to have the primary display show either an image in full screen, or a set of thumbnails in Grid view, while the secondary display has all of the develop palettes.

I managed to hit the wrong topic while merging -- very sorry about that. Please reference the new topic here: Tools in Photoshop CC should be detachable like in Illustrator CC...

Like so....



Can this happen in upgrade? If not, why?

Why is everyone going for the polarised extremes here - just because the programme has floating panels you don't have to use them - its a choice thing. I don't really use them in PS CS6, but I don't think they should be taken away. I would like them in LR simply because the left hand panel is quite congested at times. I have asked for nested levels of presets - this would support that model in that you could see ALL your presets not keep scrolling through endless meaningless descriptions

Actually, I just want the choice to have the left-side panels disappear altogether and have all of the panels tabbed on the right-side because moving the mouse to the far left side of the monitor to scroll or choose the various options & panels, to navigate or do anything else decreases my efficiency by forcing me to move the cursor to the far left. Personally is very annoying to me and I'm not sure that I want to give up my old Bridge CS3 program due to this. There are very few programs that causes the user to scroll on the left-side and I'm not sure why Adobe has chosen to go against the norm. The tabs that are in Bridge which allow for quick changes to various panels and choice to have all scrolling be done on the right side is great. If I were a left-handed person, perhaps I would want everything on the left-side so, maybe there is reason to choose between the three types of formats - not infinite, not floating - just 3 different workspace options for the panels original, left-side, & right-side. I suspect these three options will cover just about everyone.

Just make tools a second display option, the current 2nd display options have very little use and moving the presets and sliders over to the second display would mean not having to dart left and right across the screen

All palettes (keywords, quick develop, etc) should be detachable and the positions savable in sets the same way that they are in Photoshop.