diff --git a/docs/ui-parity.md b/docs/ui-parity.md index 88180c647..825e0717b 100644 --- a/docs/ui-parity.md +++ b/docs/ui-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # UI and interaction parity -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (Selection colors shows from one distinct colour when a selected layer has children, and from two otherwise, measured in Figma's web app on 2026-11-09 (#2188); the main menu and its submenus stay inside the window, moving up to fit and scrolling when taller (#2217); locked layers ignore the arrow keys and a locked parent's children can't be locked on their own (#1560); the left rail's and tab strip's icons are larger, 20 pt (#553); pick select: Tab while the keyboard selection box shows (or the chord again) puts a pink outline on a layer and the keys walk the layer tree from it, as Accessibility at Figma says (#1836); scrubbing a field faster or slower by the pointer's height, with a notice of the speed, as the help center's Scrub fields says (#1837); component rows in the Layers panel at AA contrast in the theme's component tint, with the rows inside a selected component in a tone of its row (#1903); Cmd/Ctrl-click on a padding field sets all four sides with the value typed, a documented auto layout shortcut; a fill per region of a vector: with regions selected in edit mode, the Fill section and the fill commands edit those regions' own fills, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); the Fill section of a text whose characters were coloured differently while editing shows mixed content, characters that all share fills the layer doesn't have show those, and a layer-level fill edit reaches every character (#1856); a number field scrubs when dragged with Alt held, as the help center's scrub section says, not only by its label; reuse visible layer selection roots (M8); ; with a shape or frame tool chosen and nothing selected, the arrows show a placement crosshair in the middle of the view and move it, and Enter places there, as Accessibility at Figma says (#1839); text direction per paragraph: Text ▸ Text direction forces a paragraph left to right or right to left, as Add right-to-left text says (#1830), with `text.direction`, `node.set textDirection`, the Type settings control once a right-to-left script is in the text, inspect, the CSS `direction` and the `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality`; the boolean operation menu in the Design panel leads each entry with an original icon drawn in code, a filled preview of the result (#2003); a press on the open gradient's handles or stops on the canvas keeps the colour picker open through the drag, as its own control (#1852); a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; outlines for the selection, mask outlines; arc fields, live boolean editing, shape builder on strokes, one-sided widths; fields select their text on focus; Typography spacing icons support scrubbing (#373); CSS colour names in hex fields; a rename selects the whole name, so typing replaces it; Escape or Enter after a pen path stays on the same vector (#760); IME composition kept on through idle frames of a text edit, candidates at the caret (#747); Selection colors for mixed selections and smart-selection spacing (#753); submenus with a hover delay and a safe triangle; the Actions palette's tabs, ranked search, highlight and recents; menu items that ask for a value; editor fixes from the community batches) · **Target:** Figma Design UI3 (desktop app 126.10.7) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-10 · **Change:** minor (Selection colors shows from one distinct colour when a selected layer has children, and from two otherwise, measured in Figma's web app on 2026-11-09 on a frame, a group and plain rectangles; instances and components were not measured (#2188); the main menu and its submenus stay inside the window, moving up to fit and scrolling when taller (#2217); locked layers ignore the arrow keys and a locked parent's children can't be locked on their own (#1560); the left rail's and tab strip's icons are larger, 20 pt (#553); pick select: Tab while the keyboard selection box shows (or the chord again) puts a pink outline on a layer and the keys walk the layer tree from it, as Accessibility at Figma says (#1836); scrubbing a field faster or slower by the pointer's height, with a notice of the speed, as the help center's Scrub fields says (#1837); component rows in the Layers panel at AA contrast in the theme's component tint, with the rows inside a selected component in a tone of its row (#1903); Cmd/Ctrl-click on a padding field sets all four sides with the value typed, a documented auto layout shortcut; a fill per region of a vector: with regions selected in edit mode, the Fill section and the fill commands edit those regions' own fills, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); the Fill section of a text whose characters were coloured differently while editing shows mixed content, characters that all share fills the layer doesn't have show those, and a layer-level fill edit reaches every character (#1856); a number field scrubs when dragged with Alt held, as the help center's scrub section says, not only by its label; reuse visible layer selection roots (M8); ; with a shape or frame tool chosen and nothing selected, the arrows show a placement crosshair in the middle of the view and move it, and Enter places there, as Accessibility at Figma says (#1839); text direction per paragraph: Text ▸ Text direction forces a paragraph left to right or right to left, as Add right-to-left text says (#1830), with `text.direction`, `node.set textDirection`, the Type settings control once a right-to-left script is in the text, inspect, the CSS `direction` and the `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality`; the boolean operation menu in the Design panel leads each entry with an original icon drawn in code, a filled preview of the result (#2003); a press on the open gradient's handles or stops on the canvas keeps the colour picker open through the drag, as its own control (#1852); a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; outlines for the selection, mask outlines; arc fields, live boolean editing, shape builder on strokes, one-sided widths; fields select their text on focus; Typography spacing icons support scrubbing (#373); CSS colour names in hex fields; a rename selects the whole name, so typing replaces it; Escape or Enter after a pen path stays on the same vector (#760); IME composition kept on through idle frames of a text edit, candidates at the caret (#747); Selection colors for mixed selections and smart-selection spacing (#753); submenus with a hover delay and a safe triangle; the Actions palette's tabs, ranked search, highlight and recents; menu items that ask for a value; editor fixes from the community batches) · **Target:** Figma Design UI3 (desktop app 126.10.7) Fine canvas control is what Figma users feel first: handles, snapping, nudging, modifier keys, drag behaviour, numeric precision. This checklist covers the tools, gestures and panels. Status: @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ interaction feel not yet compared. | Smart selection spacing | partial | with layers in a row, a column or an aligned grid selected, the Layout section shows horizontal and vertical spacing ("Mixed" until set; typed, scrubbed, fractional and negative) and pink handles in the gaps on the canvas drag them, one undo step, Escape cancels (`arrange.spacing`; sizes, parents and offsets within each track kept; at most 2,000 layers; flow children, locked layers and layers inside instances left out). A ring at each layer's centre drags it to another place in a regular row, column or complete top-left-aligned grid: the others close up and make room around it with the gaps kept, and with Cmd/Ctrl held the two layers swap places instead, previewed live while dragging (`selection_reorder_tests`; no ring on a layer under 16 px on screen). Not covered: reordering irregular grids, and several marked layers moved together. Checked by its author on macOS and in the app on Windows (#402) | | Selection colors | partial | the Design panel shows the section from two distinct colours, or from one when a selected layer has children (a frame, group, component or instance), and lists their solid and gradient paints (children and text ranges included; hidden paints, masks, images, patterns and boolean operands left out; styles and variables listed apart): editing a colour changes every matching fill and stroke in one undo step, a row selects the layers that use it or applies a color style or color variable of the document, and a row linked to a style or variable detaches it, keeping the color (`selection.colors`, `selection.setPaint`, `selection.applyColorStyle`, `selection.bindColorVariable`, `selection.detachColor`, `selection.selectColor`). A row's Styles menu also offers enabled libraries' published color styles and Create style (`selection.createColorStyle`); no library variables and no new variable from a row (#403) | | Keyboard box selection | done | Alt+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux, or F8 (`select.area`): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows size it (Shift with Cmd/Ctrl: farther), Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested), Escape closes; Tab while the box shows, or the chord again, switches to pick select: a pink outline on the first selected layer (the page's top layer with nothing selected), Tab and Shift+Tab move it between sibling layers in Layers order, Enter into a frame's top child, Shift+Enter out to the parent, Space selects it, Escape or a press on the canvas ends it; `ui.key` takes the same keys (#1836) | -| Selection colors | partial | the Design panel shows the section from two distinct colours, or from one when a selected layer has children (a frame, group, component or instance; a lone layer without children, or several layers without children in one colour, hide it), counting the selected layers' own fills and strokes and their descendants' (measured in Figma's web app, 2026-11-09, #2188), and lists their solid and gradient paints (children and text ranges included; hidden paints, masks, images, patterns and boolean operands left out; styles and variables listed apart): editing a colour changes every matching fill and stroke in one undo step, a row selects the layers that use it or applies a color style or color variable of the document, and a row linked to a style or variable detaches it, keeping the color (`selection.colors`, `selection.setPaint`, `selection.applyColorStyle`, `selection.bindColorVariable`, `selection.detachColor`, `selection.selectColor`). A row's Styles menu also lists each enabled library's published color styles under the library's name (a library that can't be read offers none), and a linked row's menu switches it to another style; a library style is copied in, linked and read-only, in the same undo step (`selection.applyColorStyle` with `library`). Create style on an ordinary row asks for a name (the next free "Color n" first) and makes a style of the row's whole paint, gradients, opacity, blend mode and variables bound to gradient stops included, linked to every fill and stroke the row stands for in one undo step; a name in use keeps the window open (`selection.createColorStyle`). Text ranges with fills of their own take the style's value, without a link. No library variables from there, and no new variable from a row (#403) | +| Selection colors | partial | the Design panel shows the section from two distinct colours, or from one when a selected layer has children (a frame, group, component or instance; a lone layer without children, or several layers without children in one colour, hide it), counting the selected layers' own fills and strokes and their descendants' (measured in Figma's web app, 2026-11-09, #2188, on frames, groups and rectangles only; the rule for components and instances is not measured), and lists their solid and gradient paints (children and text ranges included; hidden paints, masks, images, patterns and boolean operands left out; styles and variables listed apart): editing a colour changes every matching fill and stroke in one undo step, a row selects the layers that use it or applies a color style or color variable of the document, and a row linked to a style or variable detaches it, keeping the color (`selection.colors`, `selection.setPaint`, `selection.applyColorStyle`, `selection.bindColorVariable`, `selection.detachColor`, `selection.selectColor`). A row's Styles menu also lists each enabled library's published color styles under the library's name (a library that can't be read offers none), and a linked row's menu switches it to another style; a library style is copied in, linked and read-only, in the same undo step (`selection.applyColorStyle` with `library`). Create style on an ordinary row asks for a name (the next free "Color n" first) and makes a style of the row's whole paint, gradients, opacity, blend mode and variables bound to gradient stops included, linked to every fill and stroke the row stands for in one undo step; a name in use keeps the window open (`selection.createColorStyle`). Text ranges with fills of their own take the style's value, without a link. No library variables from there, and no new variable from a row (#403) | | Keyboard box selection | done | Alt+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux, or F8 (`select.area`): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows size it (Shift with Cmd/Ctrl: farther), Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested), Escape closes | ## Tools @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| -| 2026-11-09 | patch | M3, #2188: Selection colors shows for a selection holding a layer with children (a frame, group, component or instance) from one distinct colour, and for layers without children only from two, as measured in Figma's web app on 2026-11-09: a frame holding one red rectangle, a group of two red rectangles and a frame with a lone black-stroked rectangle show one row; one red rectangle, two red rectangles and a childless green frame show none; a red and a blue loose rectangle show two. Tests: `selection_colors_tests`. Counts unchanged | +| 2026-11-09 | patch | M3, #2188: Selection colors shows for a selection holding a layer with children (a frame, group, component or instance) from one distinct colour, and for layers without children only from two; measured in Figma's web app on 2026-11-09 for the examples below only, and instance and component behaviour was not measured: a frame holding one red rectangle, a group of two red rectangles and a frame with a lone black-stroked rectangle show one row; one red rectangle, two red rectangles and a childless green frame show none; a red and a blue loose rectangle show two. Tests: `selection_colors_tests`. Counts unchanged | | 2026-11-10 | patch | M5, #1560: locked layers follow Figma's rules (Lock and unlock layers; measured in Figma's web app): a locked layer selected in the Layers panel ignores the arrow keys and the nudge commands while its properties still edit, and a child of a locked layer keeps its padlock inert (the Layers panel padlock, Lock/Unlock and `object.toggleLock` without a value no longer lock the child on its own) | | 2026-11-10 | patch | #2217: the main menu's submenus (Object, say) ran past the window's bottom, behind the taskbar, with the lowest commands out of reach, because submenus were not constrained to the window (to keep them beside their row). Every menu panel now scrolls when taller than the window less 8 pt margins, and a submenu is held within the window's height (moved up, never above the top) while keeping its place beside its row, so menu-aim is unchanged. Tests: `menu_overflow_tests.rs`. Numbers unchanged. | | 2026-11-02 | patch | Shortcuts: a Cmd/Ctrl-click on a padding field (the horizontal or vertical pair, or a side with Individual padding open) makes the value typed go to all four sides, in one undo step (Guide to auto layout, Keyboard shortcut guide); a plain click still edits that axis or side alone. A documented gesture row: 134 documented, 133 bound. Test: `padding_individual_tests` |