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July 21, 2011
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P: Support for native full-screen mode on macOS

  • July 21, 2011
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I must say that full screen apps is a wonderful idea. I can start in such a way some of the apple apps (safari, imail, numbers) - I like switching between them. It will be desirable to enable this option for Ligtroom & Photoshop (both CS and Elements) to behave in similar way under new Mission Control stuff...

317 replies

Participating Frequently
April 4, 2012
Advanced 3D and video-editing capabilities are very nice addition.

But – completely consistent UI look, shortcuts and behavior with OS-native (both OS X 10.7 / 10.8 and Windows 😎 functionalities would really be the big bomb.
Participating Frequently
April 4, 2012
Adobe, this is what customers want. Enough solutions are offered in this topic. Why even hesitate to put this in?
Participating Frequently
April 4, 2012
Application Frame mode with documents in tabs could be fine and elegant solution.
Participating Frequently
April 4, 2012
@9137396: Agreed!
Inspiring
April 4, 2012
Well, ideally they should just clean up the whole fullscreen issue. You are right. As of now, it is a massive mess. Honestly, I would really love if instead of giving us 3D and video capabilities (I mean, really, who uses this?) we would get real consistency across all Adobe programs in UI behaviour and shortcuts. Things like getting the apps to work with the full potential of the OS should be right after that on the list.

Instead we get black UI and slightly different crop tool. Awesome...
Participant
April 4, 2012
Adobe already have a way to work with multiple documents - it's called tabs in the application frame - all they need to do is make the application frame with tabs the only way to manage documents while in Lion fullscreen mode. Simples!
Inspiring
April 4, 2012
> "The ability to switch between different document windows while in fullscreen mode"

The way Pixelmator addressed this issue is they put the native Lion full-screen widget on each document window, so if you have two documents open in Pixelmator, you can zoom one to full screen and leave the other as a window on your desktop, or zoom 'em both to full screen, and each gets their own separate Lion workspace. Then you just swipe between the two workspaces.

Might not be the ideal way to handle it vs. some of the other ideas thrown around, but is definitely the easiest to implement. And might even work better for those that have a small, single screen anyway.
PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2012
It is already difficult to help some users that mix maximized windows and Photoshop "F" full screen mode... I can't imagine if we throw that in the mix.
Participant
April 4, 2012
Well VLC included it in their preferences - by default they use their own fullscreen mode but if the user wants to use native fullscreen they can change it in the preferences. I don't see why Adobe can do this as they done similar things with the open save dialog boxes, colour pickers and other interface features in the past. I agree with the vast majority here Mission Control fullscreen would be perfect for some peoples workflows - you have such a wide user base surely pleasing both camps wouldn't be too much trouble - where not asking for much?
Inspiring
March 28, 2012
Hey guys, how about integrating the fullscreen feature available for applications in Mac OS X Lion into Photoshop CS6 when it's officially released? 😄