Add Legacy shapes/patterns/gradients/swatches in option bar, contextuals etc.

[PECourtejoie]

Two+ years after the arrival of the new useful Shapes Patterns, Gradients or Swatches Panels, users still cannot find the legacy presets as they search in the Option bar local menu, or in the local menu of the Contextual (right-click) click on the image, instead of in the new panels.

Case in point: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/missing-patterns-in-fill-dialog/m-p/1...

We never see such discussions for Brushes, for the legacy option exists in the Option bar local menu, in the local menu when they right-click on the image. (in addition to the Brushes panel)Lgacy in brushes vs no legacy in shapes

Why do they search there? Because, before we got the new folders, that's where all the other sets were found. You cannot beat twenty years of muscle memory...

the old drop down

[PECourtejoie]

Another simple solution would simply be to add the legacy folder in the list to load them.

There are still users struggling to find them when they are looking for them in the obvious locations, where brushes can be found on similar panels, it is such a simple problem to fix where users expect UI consistency... 

[Wilson Laidlaw]

Both Apple and Adobe seem to have a new motto. If it ain't broke: fix it anyway. Just leave things alone guys!

[jane-e]

Managing patterns, shapes, and gradients in their own panels makes a lot of sense to me in the long run and I think it was a good move.

On the other hand, most of the new shapes are silly. If Adobe keeps track of usage, I suspect the talk bubbles are the most popular.

Jane

[PECourtejoie]

Indeed, @jane-e followed by the arrows... but that's just the shapes. How many know about the photographic toning Gradient Maps, created and offered by Steve Weinrebe?

[PECourtejoie]

Another location where that menu would be useful is in the properties panel: I tried to add a photographic toning to an image, added a gradient map from the layers panel, this opened properties that only allow me to re-add the default gradients, or load gradients, but annoyingly enough, not the legacy gradients, forcing the opening of yet another panel (what the new gradient experience is trying to reduce, panel creep)

[PECourtejoie]

There was another thread where a user was pointed to the search bar, he told that he has any.

That made be realize that the simplest fix is to pop up the panel with full functionnality, instead of the drop down, on the option bar, on properties, or when doing a right-click, where all users go, instead of in this additional panel. (Would be curious to see the usage stats.)