Here’s an example to illustrate the punishment replete in the R8 panel logic and implementation as I complained about in #2 above.
I wanted to find more “panels” to explore, so I right click on some gray blank area on the Layers “container” expecting a dropdown. No response. Then I tried again but inadvertently right clicked twice and, surprise, it dislodged the whole “container” into a floater. New size, new appearance, grab bar a different color than the dead gray I double clicked in.
That means I have to grab the correct (better hope I grab the correct shade of gray this time) and drag the window - that now looks different than the one I just accidentally dislodged - halfway down the screen into a sensitive purple highlighted area and HOPE I chose the right purple area to release the mouse in which is ALSO previewed at a new size, not that of the panel’s starting position.
There are many things wrong with this process. I have some suggestions to address some of them.
-give us a way to undo accidental panel dislodging
-if there are to be dead areas in the panels that are designed to prevent dropdown menus for some reason, give it a special dead color and be consistent in preventing all clicking responses. Otherwise open it up for dropdowns like most other places in the UI.
-give us a Panels command (there are already Toolbars and jargon like PackageManager and Containers) to show command line entry for items shown in the Windows > Panels menu
