Add dividers/separators to custom tools panel (or enable stacking/docking them vertically)
It would be nice to be able to visually separate tool groups in custom toolbars since there is no way to stack them vertically. Think "groups" in Microsoft Office apps' "ribbon". We can currently only...
A) Mash all of our tools into one toolbar, with no means of visual organization apart from the order in which they appear (I don't count stacking the tools as "visual organization", since I cannot see them).
B) Snap multiple toolbars together, but not while docked to edge of UI. They will not be movable together like this, and other UI elements can overlap them. Far from ideal.
C) Dock the toolbars together horizontally. This is a massively inefficient use of screen space.
Thanks!
P.S.: This is more of a peeve than anything, why do toolbars occupy all vertical space even when there are no tools there? We're going back to smaller screens now, with touch interfaces, so being able to utilize screen real estate is crucial.
Actually, someone submitted a request for this already titled "Unable to Resize Tool Panels (verticle axis)". It started to receive votes and the mods (groan) closed it since it was worded sort of like a bug report, and mistaken for one. Sorry, but this is why you don't outsource your online presence to non-native-English-speakers. It makes you a punchline.:
Aside: maybe separate the feature requests and bug reports? I would imagine this confusion has happened more than once.
Durham Bell
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I miss dividers.
Please bring them back. -
This related request deserves a vote too:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/43218300-delete-from-recent-files -
...because without these I started thinking about a plugin that just adds several blank tools with lines, to create sub-groups in tool panel, like in this image.
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Ai used to have separators in tool panel, dropped somewhere after 2012, with a major UI redesign.
Now we can customize our tools panels, but we can’t place separators between groups we make.
Please, give them to use.Also look at related request about docked tool panels row stacking:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/41861254-allow-docked-tool-panels-to-stack-one-under-anothe -
Jack Mulholland
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100% Agree, even on a large monitor it starts eating up space quickly. I want all my panels and toolbars docked so they stay in place when I move the window, but it's so much wasted vertical space. Let us snap them vertically!
