I like the Properties Panel idea And Hiding the Control Bars on top to maybe look less daunting to newcomers but What if It has a DropDown arrow. A small panel tucked inside on top of Indesign while having a dropdown arrow in the middle so when the mouse is clicked/hovered on top it falls down occupying the same amt of space. Can also be used on every other Panel the Right one as well. Just Hover the Mouse to the extreme Right and the Panel shows up and when not more viewing space for the file. I m not saying to make this a primary feature but to have an option for this kind of workspace. The Top Control Bar Dropdown arrow can have a tooltip Want More Controls?

It is very sad that Adobe relies so heavily on third party developer to fix issues for services that we CC subscribers pay for already. It is very dissapppointing that I have to search the internet for an app or plugin to do something that should be built into a product such as Indesign. I should not have to purchase anything that creates a function that this software should provide based on the context of what it is supposed to do. Indesign is in all forms a layout and typeset application that for the steep cost should provide the ability to layout any sort of information, even something like creating a manual that contains math equations. I should not have to purchase anything else in order to be able to put this into my publication. Again this is sad that we even have to request this function in a tool that anyone with any common sense would think would already be built into this program... please keep up with your products and what they do and the functions they should provide, especially since you want me to pay monthly.

I have too many old thumbnail showing in my InDesign screen. Some are useless items, such as drafts, that I saved, but later deleted. The file is deleted, but the thumbnail is still there. I also want to have some thumbnails from 3 years ago, not go searching for them among my files later. Why don't you let us delete thumbnails of deleted files? Why do they even show up, if we deleted the file? This is a bad either/or decision we shouldn't be forced into. It's quite inconvenient. Now I'm afraid to save a draft and and have even more thumbnails I can't get rid of. Am I missing something here, or do you programmers think this is a good idea, to make us have 100 thumbnails? Oh, just use the file folder is your response, but then why even have thumbnails? Because, obviously, because thumbnails are so convenient. But only the ones which we want to use, not a list of all of them, forever, including every draft we saved and have since deleted.

During tight deadlines and rapid delivery cadences, the ability to track down and recover the InDesign file with updates in the event that InDesign crashed is troublesome.

The current process is to track down the document within the path below (link available for more recovery methods) and the probability that all updates are available is in question.

• Mac OS X: Users/[User Name]/Library/Cache/Adobe InDesign/Version[#.0]/InDesign Recovery

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-document-recovery.html

However, this raises the need to easier more intuitive access to working files if we do in fact need to embrace the inevitability of crash occurrences. If adobe is not enhancing the InDesign product due to phasing out the product or low prioritization with competing business demands. The enterprise users need to be made aware of this in order to prioritize seeking other similar products that enable us to meet our business demands that require working with InDesign.