Trays and their usefulness

[ken]

Trays - Maybe I don't know how to use the Trays and the lack of usability is my fault. I found the old system much better.

So is there anyone out there that find the Trays useful?

Ken

[baz]

Nope, hate 'em.

[boofredlay]

I agree. The only place I personally find them useful is on our big display monitor in the conference room. I place all the palettes in one Tray so I can hide them away when showing clients a design.

[Rich O Brien]

I use the Hide Tray feature to a shortcut key so I can tuck it away and show on demand.

The pinning feature does my head in with it popping in and out on hover.

I also wish the panels in the tray would rollup if i clicked and dragged across them. Or at least be opened via keyboard shortcut.

But i do prefer the tray over the older floating dialogs.

[kaas]

I dislike the trays as well. I could like them IF:

• the shortcut key-toggle would be an actual toggle: open one tray closes the others.
• the shortcut key-toggle work for the pinned side-trays as well: open=open and no autohide (also real toggle so open one side-tray closes all others).
• there were Ruby methods to control the trays (read if open, open/close etc). That way you could fine-tune the behavior yourself
• the trays could be a bit more space efficient - at the moment there's some wasted space (entity info).

[rv1974]

I hate them as well. Needlessly implemented feature nobody asked for. What drives me mad those trays killed my discrete shortcuts for object properties/materials and others toggle

[pbacot]

I find them VERY useful for being ONE SU feature, which I don't want, that is only for Windows.