The side panel

The Glob List Panel, often shortened to GLP, is the panel beside your canvas. It holds lists, conversations, media and the controls for your current creative workspace.

Its tabs depend on what you are doing. Your Listr entries remain the same as you move between views; the tools beside them change.

Find the right tab#

On the canvas, the available row includes Listr, Chat, Wall, Media and Feed. Features can add their own tabs only when available. Use the labels shown in your row rather than expecting every workspace to show the same set.

The fresh desktop canvas view starts at Listr. Entering a node can bring Wall forward for the place you are standing in; leaving returns to Listr. The Wall tab can show that node's community, posts, recent activity and related nodes. See Walls.

Listr is your saved working list. Media finds artwork and other media; the editor’s Pixl tab is the current drawing’s settings. Those are different places even though both can show Pixls.

Selecting a Pixl on the canvas can bring Media forward with its inspector. Clearing that selection returns to the previous tab if you have not chosen another one in the meantime. Choosing a tab yourself takes precedence over that automatic return.

Changing views keeps each view’s own tab and width choices where the browser can remember them. For example, opening Layers in Pixl Studio does not require you to leave the canvas’s Media tab selected when you return.

Resize the desktop panel#

Rest the pointer on the panel’s left edge for about a second. The edge becomes a resize handle. Drag left to make the panel wider or right to make it narrower.

You can also focus Resize panel with the keyboard. Left and right arrows adjust its width; hold Shift for larger steps. The panel keeps a readable minimum width and leaves part of the window for the canvas.

Passing quickly across the edge does not activate the handle. If you cannot see it, pause there or focus the separator rather than repeatedly dragging across it.

Auto-hide and reveal#

The edge’s Hide panel button switches the desktop panel to auto-hide. The panel slides to the right edge and frees its canvas space.

Move the pointer close to the right edge, away from the corner controls, to peek it open over the canvas. After the pointer leaves, it waits about 1.5 seconds before closing. It stays open while a control inside it has keyboard focus or while you are using a menu or dialog it opened.

Show panel on the collapsed edge, or Keep panel open while it is peeking, returns it to always showing. Ctrl+Shift+L, or Command+Shift+L on a Mac, switches the panel’s visibility mode too.

An action such as opening Pixl Studio can reveal the panel for you without changing your auto-hide choice. If that peek waits for you, enter and leave the panel or press elsewhere to let it close.

The auto-hide choice is remembered in this browser when browser storage is available. Reduced-motion display removes the sliding animation.

Activity pulses#

A waiting mention can pulse the collapsed edge. Showing the panel clears the edge’s indication that a mention arrived while it was hidden.

The Chat tab can pulse for an unseen chat mention. Opening the relevant visible tab clears that tab’s indication. The inbox icon in the chat panel can also pulse while a chat room has unread lines. Open the chat’s room choices to see where the activity is.

These cues tell you where to look. Opening the panel is not the same as reading every conversation or clearing every notification.

Phones and narrow views#

On a phone, the panel can fill the screen instead of sitting beside the canvas. Feed is the default starting panel. Switching to the canvas shows the canvas without a second panel over it. Opening a panel tool brings that screen forward again. The bottom controls are labelled Show canvas and Show Feed. Returning to the full-screen panel can retain another tab you selected there.

Narrow creative-workspace rows omit controls that do not fit. In Pixl Studio, Frames and Palette have no separate narrow-panel tabs; their available controls are in the bottom dock’s Animation and Palette cards. The dock can scroll sideways.

Desktop hover auto-hide does not apply to a finger on a touch screen. Use the panel and canvas controls instead.

When a panel cannot load#

This panel could not load. appears inside a failed panel. Press Try again, or choose another tab and return. The canvas and tab row remain available while the affected panel retries.

If an entry seems missing, clear that tool’s search, type filter and scope. A list can retain those choices while you visit another tab. See Feed, Listr, images, Pixl and Glob Studio for their own controls.