Toolbar is one of three choices in the Panel Layout setting (Floating, Minimal, Toolbar). You will find it in Settings, under Appearance, where a small picture of each layout shows how they differ before you switch. Floating is the default.
What it does
The palette becomes a single strip across the top of the canvas. From left to right it holds:
- Selection mode: Select, Hand, Eraser, Laser and the rest, the same choices as the palette's own picker.
- Category: which set of tiles the strip shows, such as Favourites, Shapes or Icons.
- The first ten tiles of that category. Click one to add it, or drag it onto the canvas, exactly as from the palette. Each tile shows its keyboard shortcut in the corner.
- More (the ⋯ button), when the category has more than the strip can hold.
There is no floating Explorer panel. The menu button in the top-left corner opens the Explorer under it, and clicking it again closes it. Every other panel (Layers, Activity, Collaborate and the rest) floats and docks exactly as it does in the Floating layout.
More
More opens the whole category under the button: its search box, every tile, and for Favourites the Edit and Reorder controls. Adding a tile from it closes it again, so the canvas is clear to draw on.
The strip keeps the category you chose for as long as the page is open, including through Zen mode. Opening a diagram starts on Favourites again, like the floating palette.
On a phone
Toolbar is desktop only. On a phone the panels always use the compact button bar from Minimal Panels, whichever layout you picked, and Settings greys out Floating and Toolbar there.
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