I will say the layout direction icon is harder to scan than just arrows.
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I often need to reposition elements manually with stack layout disabled, but using Command+Option+Drag to move them around suddenly moves them into and out of different groups/stacks in the hierarchy. I never want this, the hierarchy is the source of truth for how my document is constructed and it getting modified out under me is really frustrating (besides straightforward converting groups to stacks and such). I don’t see any options in settings for this.
Using just the arrow keys does not trigger this behavior, so I presume it’s a bug to have it apply while using Command+Option+Drag, but I definitely still want to be able to turn this off as it’s just not needed for my workflow.
Honestly, the editor UI itself feels altogether really outdated. This is in stark contrast to Sketch’s website UI, which is super modern and clean.
When I jumped into 2025.1 to test for a couple hours, as someone who does almost all their 2D design work in Figma nowadays, one of the biggest surprises (after I smiled being able to use my middle mouse button 
) was at how dated the UI felt. I’m working on Editor UI myself for the Godot Engine, so this is something that I’m particularly in tune with. There are several little details that really just didn’t feel good. Oh and I forgot that new files always open in new windows, then after you can bundle them into tabs, which feels very strange for me.
Huge thanks for setting zero coordinates of the first frame 
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Hey Eric. As you know, it is a native app, so the behavior of opening new files depends on macOS settings. You can change from “prefer tabs when opening documents” in macos settings. Also I don’t agree with you that the interface is outdated, I feel like I’m using a native macOS app, but that’s my opinion (:
Folks — just a kind reminder to stay on topic here. This one in particular is about the beta and the features in it. All feedback is welcome, of course, but if it doesn’t relate specifically to the beta, please do start a separate topic.
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Hey Yunus — oh that’s hilarious, I already found that setting [to open new docs as tabs] and changed it specifically for this reason, but completely forgot 
In case anybody’s curious, it’s settings > desktop & dock > prefer tabs when opening documents > always
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But that will make every document to be open in a Tab. For instance, CMD-N will open new finder tabs instead of a new finder window.
Yeah, that’s my personal preference. Also it’s just one extra key for new window:
⌥+⌘+N.
(also, I’ll stop talking about this @freddiewrites )
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Hey - would you please be able to provide a little bit more info, or a video of what you’re seeing? I’m trying to reproduce it here but it sounds like you must have quite a complex set up involving nested stacks, etc.
What are you trying/wanting to do with command-option-drag exactly? Command dragging on a layer will currently ignore layout but this could change.
Hello, is there any shortcut to activate stack on multiple frame at once ?
Currently if I select 4 frames and press CMD L to activate stack layout, it creates a stack including 4 of those frames.
What I wish to do is to activate stack layout for each layout I have selected, keeping them separated, something to speed up a repetitive process.
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+1
I just experience the same issue this morning. Glad someone already added this request.
I agree with the recommendation from victor – should be able to select multiple frames and turn them into stacks, not put them into a stack.
Just started using the beta for the first time (turns out having a newborn doesn’t leave much time for exploring beta software 
) and wanted to say stacks are a huge improvement over Smart Layout. My initial experience has been great. I’ll share feedback soon, but for now, kudos to the team
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I’m working with a project which main background color is very close to the canvas “off-white”. Can we have the Artboard shadow back on the topmost frames? Adding a design shadow feels wrong (it scales with zoom) and it would get included when exporting. Alternatively having more options for the canvas colour could work too, but it would need to be set per document or page.
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I’ve been wanting per document/page backgrounds. I feel it’s especially necessary now they’ve moved to frames over arrboards
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We wanted to keep the menus more manageable, and this one was removed because we felt it didn’t serve a clear purpose.
@christophersybico, may I know why you use this setting?
A post was merged into an existing topic: Respect Aspect Ratio when possible
I understand, yes. The previous shadows associated with artboards would conflict with frames which now have stylistic properties.
It’s not something we can do for this release, but we are investigating being able to customise the page colour behind the white frames which would allow you to adjust the contrast between the page, and frames.
Workaround for now would be to draw a large rectangle or frame behind everything and give it a colour, or select “dark canvas” from the app’s preferences.
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Just to clarify Chris, are you looking at allowing the canvas colour to be modifiable on a per page basis and not just allowing a custom global colour? (A custom global colour would also be great)
Aware it’s early days etc