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Expand or contract the entire dock, inclusive of all the panels it contains, by clicking the
double-arrow symbol at the very top of the panel. When the panel is in icon-only or collapsed
tile mode, arrows will point inward, toward the application workspace and away from the edge;
when the panel is expanded, arrows will point outward toward the edge of the screen. You
can also double-click the empty, dark title bar of the dock or Cmd+click/Ctrl+click it to toggle
between expanded and collapsed states.
Arranging Panels
To add a panel to the default dock, drag the panel’s title tab over the empty area of the dock
beneath the lowest panel. When your cursor is in position, a colored horizontal line will appear
across the dock. Release the mouse button to drop the panel into the dock at that point.
Remove panels from the dock by dragging the title or icon (not the gray bar above them)
out from the dock into the empty application area. When you release the mouse, the panel will
become free floating.
Some panels, you’ll notice, are grouped—when you click the title of one to extend it, other
panels are tabbed behind it (see Figure 1.2). These are grouped panels. Collapsed, their grouped
arrangement is indicated by their icons or tiles contained within a light gray rectangle, with
a common gray bar atop them. If you do drag the gray bar away from the dock, you’ll detach
the entire group of panels. Once detached, they will be a free-floating group of tabbed panels.
Grouped panels, both on the dock and free floating, are one-at-a-time views. In other words, if
the Stroke and Color panels are grouped (as they are in the default Essentials workspace), you
can view only one or the other, not both simultaneously.
Rearrange panels in the dock by dragging their icons or tiles vertically. A horizontal line will
indicate the new location of the panel should you drop it. A rule between the panel groups, in
the dark area of the dock background, will reposition the panel or group to that point outside
other groups. Dropping it within the area of a group of icons or tiles, however, will add the
panel to the group. Dragging the gray bar of a grouped set of panels will reposition the entire
group or merge it into an existing group.
Figure 1.2
Grouped panels
extended with
other groups
collapsed
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