P: Floating panels/toolbars

I work on multiple vertical monitors.
The main viewport is on one of the middle screens,
the right sidebar on the adjacent screen.

If Lightroom allowed me to position two sidebars next to each other
on the separate display, screen real estate would be used optimally.

Even WITHOUT floating panels, just next to each other
- that would be fine!

LR4 second display doesn't play nice with the Mac Lion multiple desktops. Wouldn't it be nice if we could utilize the second monitor feature of LR4 and position a different LR4 Module in separate desktops and just swipe between them.

"Just having a choice would be good."

I think the same. So It will be good for everyone.
it just an extra option, thats all, it doesnt change anything for those who are fighting desperately against it.

Just having a choice would be good.

Yes, please let us have all the panels on a secondary monitor like in Photoshop. LR`s UI is really very limiting. Open panel, close panel, scroll up, scroll down to panel......., while my secondary monitor just sits there waiting......
Okay, there`s the "secondary view" of LR, which is really great. But I would add a third monitor in a heartbeat, if LR just would allow me those floating panels.

True Dual Monitor Support like offered in PShop. The ability to split the panels and place them as you desire as floating panels. Even Capture one can manage this. Come to think of it most high end Raw converters do. If you can split palettes in photoshop and move them onto a second monitor why not in Lightroom. The side panels take up so much potential image display area. With the technology for masking brushed, cloning etc getting better more and more is done right in LR a full screen image without hitting tab keys and so on to dim lights hide side panels would be nice. Why can't we have seperate pallete for for all the current options but not in one long line. A good example would be in Photoshop you can have a floating palette for actions and another for history. Both visible and easily accessible on a second monitor. However in LR if I lots af presets and then want to get to or have a quick glance at my history it is a time consuming task to get there. Same applies if I have all my palletes open in LR to scroll down from the Exp,Contrast,Highlight.....panel to let's say adding a vignette, again scrolling down is a pain. Why not have a separate floating pallete that can be moved and resized like I can for pretty much any task in PS. What a simple but efficient idea!

I wouldn't mind if the panels could snap somewhere.

Having them float in space is too messy for my taste too, but being able to drag them to another monitor would be useful (for those of us who've adapted to multiple smaller monitors ;-}

Well, lucky for me...and Apple...opinions are like body parts. Everyone has one, and they are all different. I love my ONE BIG MONITOR (30 inches) also, flanked by my two 22 inchers left and right, and the 50 inch fourth off to the side for client presentations. No bezels, no lost cursors, and a true pleasure to work with.

> I assume you haven't worked with multiple monitors.
No, I prefer one big one. Can't stand monitor bezels right in the middle of my workspace. Also, don't like the moue cursor "spawning into parallel worlds".

> Mac "ecosphere," the system that has been the choice for graphics and creative professionals for..hmmm...over 20 years now
Thankfully, it's been 10 years since it's a got worthy alternative.

> ..and how did you even get to this thread? It's 8 months old!!!
I have browsed about 15 pages of "Most popular" threads.