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Add Dockable Dialogs in the User Interface

Add Dockable Dialogs in the User Interface

Recently, Autodesk released a public Poll about Sketchbook's experience.
I decided to put "User Interface" in the first spot, as I'm not very satisfied with the current User Interface where all the dialogs are floating everywhere.
Used to work with GIMP or Inkscape, I've decided to sort of "design" a concept of how Sketchbook could look if Autodesk implemented the idea of docking all the dialogs in whatever position we want.
So I've designed this UI with Inkscape and I'm hopping Autodesk to listen to this petition.
If you're a user, please let me know what do you think about this idea.

Here it is:
Sketchbook Layout.png

 

A: This is where the Copic Marker Tab should be. It can be closed to make more room if the user decides to use the Color Wheel instead.

B: This is where we can manage our brush sets and brush configuration.

C: This is the dockable dialog, where instead of having a vertical strip with all the brushes, we have instead a horizontal grid with 10 or 8 brushes per line. This will allow the user to show more brushes at once.
The tabs with numbers suggests each brush set. This will prevent the user from opening the brush library and pin the brush set the user wants to use. With the brush sets displayed all in numbered tabs, we can select whatever brush set we want to use by clicking at that tab.

😧 The layers can be either docked in the Copic Marker place, in that way, the user can see more layers at once.

E: The color wheel should be JUST the color wheel. If possible, add tabs to show custom palette.

Having dockable dialogs could improve the user's workflow by having everything on one side all times. 
This suggestion is aimed to display MORE tools and at the same time it occupies LESS room than having all the dialogs floating everywhere. This User Interface could prevent missing dialogs (such as the Brush Library not appearing sometimes) because it'll be docked at all times regardless if the user is using a hi dpi display or a small display.

2 Comments
Anonymous
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Hi, I would love to see some improvements to the user interface!

Big yes to dockable dialogs, but also dialog boxes we can reduce, like the brush library, it is too big and sure can benefit from a scalable frame, just like the layers box.

Also when I use split-screen on tablet mode the dialog boxes stay where they were before the window is shrunk so I have to manually drag them to my workspace, except for the top toolbar, it is not shrinkable so it keeps sticking out.

Dockable dialogs would certainly help fix those issues.

Anonymous
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YES! FINALLY AN ANSWER!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that Sketchbook needs Dockable Dialogs.
Or at the very, very least, the option to dock'em.

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