P: Swap Develop panels for Left-Handers

I'm willing to bet that our change request is being categorized as a "nice-to-have" since we lefties represent only 10-20% of the total population and therefore has no provable ROI in the eyes of the Lead Program Managers. Of course they must also be completely ignorant of the proportion of Lefties in the CREATIVE subpopulation, and which composes the majority of their CC buyers and users. I'm also willing to bet that this is at least partially due to a brittle display framework underlying the Lightroom application code that would require significant rip & replace by their devs. I hope they aren't waiting for iOS to "take over the world" which is an absurd belief among many tech reporters in the media who have never edited a phot in their lives outside of Snapchat applets.

As a lefty with a surface pro, this has reached the level of absurdity. Why has this simple fix not been implemented?

No answers from Adobe about this subject that started 3 years ago.
I'm fed up having no feedback from them.

I'm learning to use Capture One which interface is usable by left handers.

Ditto everything that has been said.   Left handers using a stylus are handicapped by the program.

I would like to echo all of the comments thus far. I have just purchased a Wacom Cintiq and find that as a left hander it is almost impossible to use Lightroom develop panel. Surely it is just a matter of writing code - please make this happen in the next update. 

I love using the Cintiq, and I'm a lefty. Absolutely get those panels to swap at the very least. In fact why not finish the job and make them able to simply dock and undock, just like so many of the panels in Photoshop. 

Considering how many artistic people are left handed I'm kinda gobsmacked that this hasn't been done already. GET GOING AND FIX THIS PLEASE!

I add my voice to this.  My usual mode of working in Lightroom is with a trackball mouse and Wacom tablet with a desk top computer and a large vertical screen.   As a lefty this works ok.  I must say, I don't use the Wacom tablet as much as I should because crossing all the way across my body to get at the adjustment panels in Lightroom is awkward.

I recently added a Surface Pro 4 when traveling.  The pen enabled screen is wonderful, except when working in Lightroom.  How big a deal is this?  It's a very big deal.  This multiplied the "aggravation" of the Wacom tablet to a "make it or break it" kind of level.  If the pen enabled screen for use in Lightroom was the only reason I bought the Surface Pro, I would have to send it back.  And it is not the Surface Pro's, or any other pen enable screen computer's problem.  With the panels where they are, a lefty can not easily use a pen to make adjustments.  My hand covers the image with the pen on the adjustment bar.  I can not see the adjustment I'm trying to make.  I have to put the pen down and go to a mouse for the adjustment once I've drawn what I needed on the image.  

So, we need to allow a left right panel switch as on option.  While you are at it, if you swap the panels, you should also allow a move of the scroll bars to the left of the panel or window.  The reason is the same.  When you scroll with the bar on the right, your hand covers the panel/window.  You have to stop and lift your hand to see if you've scrolled far enough. 

More then ten percent of the general population are lefties, and it is a fair amount higher then that among creatives.  As the pen enabled screens become more common this will become a bigger issue yet with lefties and Lightroom.

The computer industry as whole has a long history of basically ignoring interface issues of left handers with their hardware and programs.  This needs to change.

Have to agree with everyone here. My Surface pro went back for this incredibly frustrating reason. Absolutely useless without this option. It's discriminatory, plain and simple

I am using HP Spectre x360 and bought a stylus just to edit photos on the go...... but guess what you can not swap the panels in lightroom so the stylus is freakin' useless for me. I've searched the whole internet and haven't found a solution so far.

YESSSS A thousand times yes. This would make it so much easier to edit on a Surface Pro 4.