How to hide tab bar and application...

Hello all!

Please help! Maybe someone have idea how to disable both?

It is only waste of space imo. Will not use them for sure...

Never opening more than 2-3 docs and than can easy use shortcut ctrl+`. Tabbed pages are good in web browser imho... Application bar is also just useless and (as menu itself) too fat. Most of those are in menu and have shortcuts. New features could be in menu as well.

Don't know why interface changed so much. And why this direction.

I know monitors are bigger nowdays etc - but are wider rather than higher.

Also - maybe new interface is great and ppl love it - but would be nice to have a choice. Some may prefere maximize workspace...



M.
How to hide tab bar and application...
Hi Michael,



I like the tabs, but tend to agree with you on the rest. You can turn off the tabs in the preferences, interface section. Mac users can turn off the Application Frame, and, I think, the application bar, but we windows users are not as lucky. :(



Make your feelings known as a feature request here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform



If enough of us scream early enough, maybe we can get some changes for CS5 before the interface team decides what's best for us.
How to hide tab bar and application...
Speaking as a Mac user, if I couldn't turn off the app frame and app bar, I might have stayed with CS3 -- it would have been a hard choice to make because GREP styles are to die for.



Thanks also to the noallcaps trick:



http://indesignsecrets.com/dont-like-all-caps-in-the-interface-try-this-for-some -relief.php



my CS3 and CS4 look so much alike, I sometimes have to pause a moment to work out which one I'm using.



Dave

I love the fact that it's an option. As someone who uses both but is

primarily a Windows user, I find it one of the best new features in the UI.



That said, I agree with the decision to leave it off by default to keep

the hardcore Mac users happy.



Bob

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Didn't you get that new monitor, yet? :)



Bob

Yeah.



The box is sitting in the middle of the living room floor. I'm still shoveling out the office trying to find room on the desk, and the past few days the printer has taken a higher priority than setting up the monitor. No joy there, unfortunately. $1000 for a refurb turned out to be the most cost-effective solution. :(

Thanks for responses...

Yes - mac users can be really happy. What about PC? What was wrong with classical menu?

Are designers really works with several documents the same time? So need to use tabs? Well maybe. But those who works with just one or two don't need it really. (Maybe easy solution could be: one doc = no tab, more = tabbed, would be more natural imvho. As well as turning it off for PC users as well.)



So really no trick similar to 'noallcaps'? Notabsbar? Noapplicationbar?



''You can turn off the tabs in the preferences, interface section.''



Yes, I can - but no more place coz of this... Window isn't maximized in fact - is floating, what also personally I don't like. Anyway - it is the same size and use the same space as before... If u make next one doc it is even smaller, to show bottom one. Maximizing it to full screen... hiding menu and docked 'control panel' (OK this docked menu can float, np - but where is menu?).



As for maximized letter size document in CS3 vs CS4 it's 131% to 129% on my lcd. Sure - it is not much maybe. But why it must be less? Why to change smthng what was good and aesthetic solution. And why not allow people to use it in classical way? Are Mac users (''to keep the hardcore Mac users happy'') better than others? :(



M.

There's a limit to what can be offered as far as options. FWIW, I love

the new interface and feel lost when I have to go back to CS3.



Bob

I really hated it at first, but it has grown on me, and for the most part I like it now and get frustrated with things like panels covering documents in CS3. And even if I didn't like it, I'd probably accept some pain as a tradeoff for the new smart guides and the proportional frame dragging when placing an image. Too many good things about CS4 to let yourself be held back over the interface.