- It happens on the Mac app
- Open a doc full of frames/symbols in different areas of the canvas - now try to reach a piece that is laying in the canvas in the same height of the new “contextual toolbar”, in an empty area - without any tools - you just can’t grab it! Even the new toolbar being minimal and empty for the most part, it senses the mouse reach over the entire area (inexistent, transparent bar) horizontally and it won’t allow me to pick the items on the canvas that are “behind”. You literally have to move the canvas, zoom in/out, to click the items… you can see it in a quick demo print attached.
- This shows again how inefficient this bar is. It does not make sense this toolbar at all - the only thing that would make sense here is this to be less obstructive when working in a canvas full of elements but if it does not allow me to enjoy the “plus” area it gives me, it’s pointless.
Hi @mica, this is by design so you can drag to move the app window, otherwise it’d be not so easy to do so — earlier in development this area used to be clickable to select layers and we got consistent feedback about how difficult that made moving the app window around.
App windows should be draggable by the area along their top, and ours is no exception. This is in line with other apps with content that bleeds to the edges with transparent or translucent toolbars, like Maps, Freeform, among others.
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So why don’t make use of the “empty” space by having tabs there or allowing us to custom the toolbar as before? It just does not make sense!
The available space is variable (window is resizable), and number of buttons is variable, so we can’t guarantee there’s enough space for them. Plus, we’d never mix tabs and tools in the same row, that’s mixing apples and oranges.
Just not trivial to do this with a toolbar that adapts to the selection (e.g. frame vs. shapes vs. image) or the mode (e.g. vector editing), I’m sorry. If there’s toolbar buttons that you miss have 1-click access to, let us know so we can consider elevating them.