zlacker

  > functionality on the left sidebar makes no sense

they really just need to get rid of 'sidebars' and go full-on panel oriented ui so i can put whatever inspector/tool on whatever edge of the window i want; i'm constantly switching between opening panels and closing panels and hunting and pecking for the right panel-within-a-panel with those tiny icons...

>>andrek+(OP)
I'd like an option to make things like inspectors into floating utility panels like used to be common in Mac apps back in the OS X 10.0-10.6 era. This would be really nice for multi-monitor setups… your editors could use the entirety of the main window while inspectors get tossed over to the laptop's built in screen or maybe onto one of those funky vertical strip external displays.

>>cosmic+Tx

  > into floating utility panels

yes, that is another option, and ironicaly iirc project builder (xcode up to v3) and interface builder had this paradigm in use more, then in xcode v4 they just chucked everything into a single window... its like they just gave up and decided to copy visual studio (but worse)