Arranging objects

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

when multiple objects are selected, arrange options are shown on the Context Toolbar, but not all of them. Why should we have to click on the Arrange icon if we want to distribute objects or choose additional options? Wasn't there enough room on the Context Toolbar?

[MEB]

Hi Petar Petrenko,

There's way too much options available between aligning and spacing objects so only the most commonly used were placed in the context toolbar (eventually). In any case if you right-click the main toolbar and select Customise Toolbar... you can create a group with the ones you find more useful to you.

[R C-R]

15 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Wasn't there enough room on the Context Toolbar?

As MEB said, you can customize the main toolbar & add individual buttons for the align/distribute options if you want. But considering that there are 14 of them (!!) you are likely to run out of room for all of them even if you have a 27" display, like I do.

[Petar Petrenko]

As you can see a half of them are already on the context tool bar. There is enough room.

 

 

[R C-R]

18 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

As you can see a half of them are already on the context tool bar. There is enough room.

On your 3840 px wide screen there is room for the 14 individual buttons, but certainly not for all the options available in the Alignment menu on the main toolbar. On narrower displays, it is unlikely all 14 buttons could always be displayed without pushing some of the other buttons off the Context toolbar, making them accessible only by clicking on the 'overflow' double chevron button.

 

Also consider that the main toolbar Alignment menu can be used with the Layers panel to align or distribute selected layers even when the Move tool is not active & that the window containing the toolbars may not be sized to the full width of the display.

[Petar Petrenko]

They can borrow some ideas from the software giants like Adobe and Quark. Their context toolbars are in two rows and there is still enough workspace.

[R C-R]

There are many things they could do. What they have chosen to do is to limit the Context toolbar items to the most often used ones that fit comfortably on most displays & to maximize the workspace area. If you want to request that they do something different, i think you already know where to post that. 

[Petar Petrenko]

On 3/24/2018 at 9:30 AM, R C-R said:

On your 3840 px wide screen there is room for the 14 individual buttons, but certainly not for all the options available in the Alignment menu on the main toolbar. On narrower displays, it is unlikely all 14 buttons could always be displayed without pushing some of the other buttons off the Context toolbar, making them accessible only by clicking on the 'overflow' double chevron button.

 

Also consider that the main toolbar Alignment menu can be used with the Layers panel to align or distribute selected layers even when the Move tool is not active & that the window containing the toolbars may not be sized to the full width of the display.

 

It will not take more room then the buttons from the pen tool need.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, Petar Petrenko said:

It will not take more room then the buttons from the pen tool need.

On my setup, it certainly would take more room than is available to show all 14 buttons using my preferred workspace window size, which is set to be narrower than the full screen width so I can float the Layers panel next to it (& at full screen height) without that panel obscuring anything in the workspace window.

 

Keep in mind that there are many different ways the app can be set up with various combinations of floating & docked panels, & that the Context toolbar is designed to make a few of the most frequently used functions associated with the various tools available as buttons for quick access. For that to work well with narrower display windows, they have chosen to limit the number of buttons. As I said, if you want to see more of them, make a feature request.

[Petar Petrenko]

38 minutes ago, R C-R said:

On my setup, it certainly would take more room than is available to show all 14 buttons using my preferred workspace window size, which is set to be narrower than the full screen width so I can float the Layers panel next to it (& at full screen height) without that panel obscuring anything in the workspace window.

 

Keep in mind that there are many different ways the app can be set up with various combinations of floating & docked panels, & that the Context toolbar is designed to make a few of the most frequently used functions associated with the various tools available as buttons for quick access. For that to work well with narrower display windows, they have chosen to limit the number of buttons. As I said, if you want to see more of them, make a feature request.

 

And who decides which functions are used more frequently? I, for example, use distribute functions as frequently as align ones.

[R C-R]

31 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

And who decides which functions are used more frequently? I, for example, use distribute functions as frequently as align ones.

As I keep saying, if you want these functions to appear on the Move Tool Context toolbar, submit a feature request for that. If enough other users '+1' your request, maybe that will be added in some future update.