Unable to access Palette Properties

• Jun 28, 2016 - 22:02

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the intent, but my interpretation of the handbook is that right-clicking a palette name in the palette panel should let me access palette properties for that entry. My only choice is 'save palette' -- all others are greyed out. Am I confused? I'm actually just trying to find the 'single palette mode' option but presumably the other features are useful too. Sorry if I'm being dense.


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"Single palette mode" you don't need a cusotm workspace for - you just need to right click the title bar *of the palette window itself*, not a particular palette within the window.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Thanks much, I finally figured this out once I re-anchored the palette window. When it's floating as a separate window, which is how I need to use it on my tall-aspect-ratio tablet, this capability is lost -- the title bar is a normal OS title bar, and right-click has OS-defined behavior. The handbook should perhaps mention this.

I can't think of any way to add the single-palette functionality to the floating window, unless the title row ('Palettes") were included in the frame -- which might not be unreasonable.

Otherwise, I feel there should be some other mechanism provided for turning this option (and similar ones) on and off. The logical place, for me, would be in some global settings or preferences window. I am often trying to locate where a certain feature is controlled, and am frustrated to find that it's not in the first place I choose to look. I would prefer if there were some master list of all settings, and that all these extra right-click mechanisms were shortcuts -- rather than having these semi-hidden mechanisms being "THE" controls. But that's just me.

In reply to by spinality

What OS are you on? For me, the Single Palette option is available whether the palette window is docked or not (Ubuntu 14.04 using xfce4). I guess maybe a limitation in your particular OS / window manager might be preventing this from working.

Anyhow, I assume it works to dock the window long enough to enable the option, then undock it again?

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