Hi Mark,But updating the UI, "who uses drawers anymore?" ... I really couldn't care less about that. For me NWP's drawer with its tabs and the ability to have more than one palette under each tab suits me fine; all that matters is that I know where to find the things that I need, not whether the UI conforms to this year's fashion. I don't find the floating palette system in say Pages or Keynote any more functional than NWP's drawer.
I am with you when it comes to floating palettes. And while I was the one who started complaining here about the drawer, I have to say that I like the general idea of having the palettes docked there at the side of the window. It just isn't that elegant when going into full screen, which I find desirable for writing because I have the attention span of a gold fish. Rather than floating palettes, I basically thought of something like the tool-drawer but as a panel inside the window, like the right hand info area of the Scrivener window. I think a bunch of apps have started to adopt that approach. I find that to replicate the functionality of the tool drawer rather well. It is basically the same thing except it is inside the window rather than at the side and kind of behind it. That way it plays well with full screen view which is good for people like me wh... oh, what's that on twitter...