Photoshop: Application bar removed in CS6, no more Arrange Documents button

I totally agree and I don't understand why the Arrange Documents button was kept in Illustrator and InDesign, but not in Photoshop...
I hope people in Adobe reads these topics and re-introduce this button as soon as possible!

Chris, a lot of us liked the bar for convenience sake. Why not just make it a user option, like other pallets?

Also, you say all functionality is found elsewhere. I've yet to see my zoom magnification when in full screen mode, where might that be at a glance?

I am also disappointed that the application bar no longer shows Zoom Level as well as Arrange Documents etc. Is there a way to customize this area of the top bar? I also am missing the buttons for Bridge and Mini Bridge.

Bruce, and all, I completely agree! I miss this Arrange Documents icon more than anything! Almost to the point that I prefer to use CS5 still! If I never know about this icon and you showed it to me in CS7, I would be thrilled...so to have it in CS5 but not the new CS6 is a move in the wrong direction of ease of use, user friendliness and faster workflow, which I think CS6 is really all about. Can't image this is missing. If you're like me, you open several documents and switch between them, tile them, zoom and consolidate to one tab all of the time as you work. To have to go to a menu now and then another menu and then a new menu with small icons and text just doesn't seem like a new exciting feature...just a backward step in workflow.

In CS5, my Arrange Documents icon was next to my main menu options, in the same bar, so this isn't an issue of space. See attached image.



Thank you for posting and allowing us to post. I hope Adobe responds with a fixs soon!

Can a moderator turn this thread into a feature request?

It's insulting to see it marked "not a problem" when clearly for many of us it is.

Still can't fathom why the bar wasn't treated like any other pallet, that a user can choose to show or hide.

For those of us who use the Application bar a lot please can we have it back? Its the only thing stopping me using CS6

I too use the zoom bar most of the time, if you could add that back and make it more flexible like the one on bottom left or even better, with drag functionality to zoom in or out [like opacity on layers] it would be worthwhile upgrading !

Not a problem?? NOT. This is STILL A PROBLEM for many of us. i know several people who refuse to use CS6 because of this issue. I think this needs to be escalated to a higher priority and given some real consideration.

I have recently switched over to CS6, although the previous versions (CS3, CS4, CS5...) still live on my Mac, and are still used to some point (CS4, for instance, is the program we use at school). To my big surprise and disappointment, I could not find this Arrange Documents button anywhere in Photoshop CS6, so I started looking on the net (and asking a question on my favourite photography board), only to find out that the Arrange Documents button is missing.
Well, I miss it!

Thanks, Chris, I guess we will have to "live" with this, but in my opinion, as well as in that of the other posters of this thread, this new development (omitting a frequently used button or button bar) is no progress.

Chris, in your responses, I feel like you've never used Photoshop before...such as as a photographer or designer. To say: "there is no reason for space filler buttons that duplicate existing functionality," would be like saying, there's no reason for keyboard shortcuts because we can access those commands in the menu. I find your response to this issue a bit disheartening. Perhaps as a developer, you're taking this quite personally, because we all liked a specific feature that caused no harm to anyone but yet it was removed...and it sounds like, another "team" was responsible for this, and you weren't? So, by us supporting this option, we're really supporting another team...and not yours? Let's not make this political or personal...the fact is, easy to find buttons should not be removed and MORE should be added. (Why don't we just strip the entire UI and go back to menus only? Obviously, that's silly.) This is a step in the wrong direction of user functionality, and that's not an opinion. I would hope Adobe's response to this would be, hey, thanks for the feedback, we're sorry we (somehow) removed a feature that you all really liked, but unfortunately it isn't possible to add it back into this version's UI because of how it's been developed...maybe CS7.....as opposed to, it was filler, no body used it, (basically, you're all stupid, etc)...that's not a concerning or understanding response...especially when not only did we all use it, but multiple us by thousands and thousands...we're just the ones with enough time on our hands to write about it!

I agree with Evan. The VAST majority of users have no idea how to find this forum to voice their opinion on this subject. Right now I have a huge empty space across the top of PSCS6 where the Application Bar used to be. On my 27" monitor there is 14 inches of empty space between Help and Essentials while in CS5 there is Mini Bridge, Bridge, Guides and Rulers, Zoom Controls, Arrange Documents and Screen Mode. Zoom Controls is the one we miss the most since it provided stepped zoom levels that are not available in the View>Zoom dropdown. if you think this was not a useful feature then you need to go back to why it has been is so many prior releases.

Arrange Images also provided custom layouts that are not immediately available in Window>Arrange and allowed us to very rapidly select the combination of views that work the best for the situation at hand.

I can't believe that Adobe jettisoned these features and left an empty space in their place. This needs some escalation and better review.

Recently moving from CS4 to CS6 on Windows 7 and ran into the taskbar clutter issue ( http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh... ). Obviously there has been no solution to it since 2011 ( http://forums.adobe.com/thread/776460 ). So I'm forced to find alternative workarounds. Have been trying out the tabbed view to avoid the taskbar clutter for a few days now. Having to dig into the menu (Window>Arrange>) to arrange my tabs really feels like Word 2003! FGS, it's 2012! Rread about the convenient "application bar" on the web... only to find that it's removed in CS6. This is frustrating! Why make users digging into the menu instead of a handy "arrange documents" button?

Many of us miss the Arrange Documents button. Chris, I hope you realize how arrogant and dismissive you sound: "We know how little the app bar was liked....." How about something a bit more responsive to your customers? I've got over twelve inches of empty space where those buttons could easily reside.

AMEN!