Window: Shift+Tab shows and hides the panels but leaves the toolbar and the Control bar

Shift+Tab ran Tab's command and hid the toolbar and the Control bar
along with the panels. egui matches a chord without Shift when Shift
is also held.

A new UI command, window.panels (default Shift+Tab), shows and hides
the dock and the floating panels and leaves the toolbar and the
Control bar as they are. The shortcut table tries chords with more
modifiers first, so Tab's chord no longer takes Shift+Tab. Hiding the
panels with Tab or Shift+Tab also closes a panel popped out of the
icon column, which stayed on screen at the window's right edge.

Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv

@@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ lighting	Light	Světlo
 	Options for Selection…	Možnosti výběru…
 	Panel Options…	Možnosti panelu…
 	Panels	Panely
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Panely kromě nástrojů a ovládacího panelu
 	Perspective Plane Options…	Možnosti perspektivní roviny…
 	Placement Options…	Možnosti umístění…
 	Plug-in…	Zásuvný modul…

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.tsv

@@ -1968,6 +1968,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Bedienfeldmenü
 	Panel Options…	Bedienfeldoptionen…
 	Panels	Bedienfelder
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Bedienfelder außer Werkzeugen und Steuerung
 	Paragraph	Absatz
 	Paragraph Style	Absatzformat
 	Paragraph Style Options	Absatzformatoptionen

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv

@@ -2017,6 +2017,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Menú del panel
 	Panel Options…	Opciones del panel…
 	Panels	Paneles
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Paneles excepto Herramientas y Control
 	Paragraph	Párrafo
 	Paragraph Style	Estilo de párrafo
 	Paragraph Style Options	Opciones de estilo de párrafo

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.tsv

@@ -2014,6 +2014,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Menu du panneau
 	Panel Options…	Options du panneau…
 	Panels	Panneaux
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Panneaux sauf Outils et Contrôle
 	Paragraph	Paragraphe
 	Paragraph Style	Style de paragraphe
 	Paragraph Style Options	Options de style de paragraphe

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/hu.tsv

@@ -2475,6 +2475,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Panelmenü
 	Panel Options…	Panel beállításai…
 	Panels	Panelek
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Panelek az Eszközök és a Vezérlősáv kivételével
 	Paragraph	Bekezdés
 	Paragraph Style	Bekezdésstílus
 	Paragraph Style Options	Bekezdésstílus beállításai

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv

@@ -2019,6 +2019,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Menu del pannello
 	Panel Options…	Opzioni pannello…
 	Panels	Pannelli
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Pannelli tranne Strumenti e Controllo
 	Paragraph	Paragrafo
 	Paragraph Style	Stile paragrafo
 	Paragraph Style Options	Opzioni stile paragrafo

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv

@@ -2094,6 +2094,7 @@
 	Panel Options…	パネルオプション…
 	Panel menu	パネルメニュー
 	Panels	パネル
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	ツールとコントロール以外のパネル
 	Paragraph Style Options	段落スタイルオプション
 	Password	パスワード
 	Paste Offset	ペースト位置のオフセット

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.tsv

@@ -2089,6 +2089,7 @@
 	Panel Options…	패널 옵션…
 	Panel menu	패널 메뉴
 	Panels	패널
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	도구와 컨트롤을 제외한 패널
 	Paragraph Style Options	단락 스타일 옵션
 	Password	암호
 	Paste Offset	붙여넣기 간격

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.tsv

@@ -841,6 +841,7 @@ lighting	Light	Światło
 	Options for Selection…	Opcje zaznaczenia…
 	Panel Options…	Opcje panelu…
 	Panels	Panele
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Panele oprócz narzędzi i sterowania
 	Perspective Plane Options…	Opcje płaszczyzny perspektywy…
 	Placement Options…	Opcje umieszczania…
 	Plug-in…	Wtyczka…

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv

@@ -1654,6 +1654,7 @@
 	Panel Options…	Opções do Painel…
 	Panel menu	Menu do painel
 	Panels	Painéis
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Painéis exceto Ferramentas e Controle
 	Paragraph	Parágrafo
 	Paragraph Style Options	Opções de Estilo de Parágrafo
 	Paragraph Styles	Estilos de Parágrafo

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.tsv

@@ -2015,6 +2015,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Меню панели
 	Panel Options…	Параметры панели…
 	Panels	Панели
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Панели, кроме инструментов и панели Control
 	Paragraph	Абзац
 	Paragraph Style	Стиль абзаца
 	Paragraph Style Options	Параметры стиля абзаца

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.tsv

@@ -2011,6 +2011,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Меню панелі
 	Panel Options…	Параметри панелі…
 	Panels	Панелі
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Панелі, крім інструментів і панелі керування
 	Paragraph	Абзац
 	Paragraph Style	Стиль абзацу
 	Paragraph Style Options	Параметри стилю абзацу

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.tsv

@@ -2268,6 +2268,7 @@
 	Panel menu	Menu bảng
 	Panel Options…	Tùy chọn bảng…
 	Panels	Bảng
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	Bảng trừ Công cụ và Điều khiển
 	Paragraph	Đoạn văn
 	Paragraph Style	Kiểu đoạn văn
 	Paragraph Style Options	Tùy chọn kiểu đoạn văn

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv

@@ -1906,6 +1906,7 @@
 	Panel menu	面板菜单
 	Panel Options…	面板选项…
 	Panels	面板
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	除工具和控制栏外的面板
 	Paragraph	段落
 	Paragraph Style	段落样式
 	Paragraph Style Options	段落样式选项

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv

@@ -1996,6 +1996,7 @@
 	Panel menu	面板選單
 	Panel Options…	面板選項…
 	Panels	面板
+	Panels Except Tools and Control	除工具與控制以外的面板
 	Paragraph	段落
 	Paragraph Style	段落樣式
 	Paragraph Style Options	段落樣式選項

crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs

@@ -307,6 +307,12 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
     ),
     ("window.taskBar.reset", "Reset Bar Position", "", "{} unpin the Contextual Task Bar and put it back under the selection"),
     ("window.dock", "Panels", "Tab", "{} show/hide all panels"),
+    (
+        "window.panels",
+        "Panels Except Tools and Control",
+        "Shift+Tab",
+        "{} show/hide the dock and the floating panels (hiding them closes a panel popped out of the icon column), leaving the toolbar and the Control bar as they are; returns whether the panels show",
+    ),
     ("window.panel", "Show Panel", "", "{panel: id} e.g. layers, swatches, stroke (case-insensitive; display labels like \"Layers\" work too)"),
     (
         "window.panel.layout",
@@ -1225,6 +1231,17 @@ pub fn run_ui_command(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, id: &str, p: &Value) -> Option<R
             app.ui.dock = on;
             app.ui.toolbar = on;
             app.ui.control_bar = on;
+            if !on {
+                app.ui.open_panel = None;
+            }
+            Ok(json!(on))
+        }
+        "window.panels" => {
+            let on = !app.ui.dock;
+            app.ui.dock = on;
+            if !on {
+                app.ui.open_panel = None;
+            }
             Ok(json!(on))
         }
         "window.collapseDock" => opt_bool(p, "collapsed").map(|collapsed| {

crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs

@@ -697,6 +697,68 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(doc["layers"][0]["children"][0]["name"], "a\tb");
     }
 
+    /// Shift+Tab shows and hides the panels and leaves the toolbar and the Control bar as they are,
+    /// while Tab hides all three. Hiding the panels closes a panel popped out of the icon column.
+    /// In a focused field neither key shows or hides anything.
+    #[test]
+    fn shift_tab_hides_the_panels_but_not_the_toolbar_or_the_control_bar() {
+        let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(vectorcraft_engine::Session::new(), Default::default());
+        app.session.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 200, "height": 200})).unwrap();
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        let screen = egui::Rect::from_min_size(egui::Pos2::ZERO, egui::vec2(1600.0, 850.0));
+        let run = |app: &mut VectorcraftApp, events: Vec<egui::Event>| {
+            let mut out = ctx.run_ui(egui::RawInput { events, screen_rect: Some(screen), ..Default::default() }, |ui| {
+                app.logic(ui.ctx());
+                app.ui(ui);
+            });
+            out.textures_delta.clear();
+        };
+        let press = |modifiers| egui::Event::Key { key: Key::Tab, physical_key: None, pressed: true, repeat: false, modifiers };
+        let shown = |app: &VectorcraftApp| (app.ui.dock, app.ui.toolbar, app.ui.control_bar);
+        app.ui.control_bar = true;
+        for _ in 0..3 {
+            run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        }
+        assert_eq!(shown(&app), (true, true, true));
+        app.run("window.panel", json!({"panel": "color"})).unwrap();
+        run(&mut app, vec![press(Modifiers::SHIFT)]);
+        run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(shown(&app), (false, true, true), "Shift+Tab hid the panels only");
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.open_panel, None, "and the panel popped out of the icon column");
+        run(&mut app, vec![press(Modifiers::SHIFT)]);
+        run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(shown(&app), (true, true, true), "a second Shift+Tab shows them again");
+        app.run("window.panel", json!({"panel": "color"})).unwrap();
+        run(&mut app, vec![press(Modifiers::NONE)]);
+        run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(shown(&app), (false, false, false), "Tab hides the toolbar and the Control bar too");
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.open_panel, None);
+        run(&mut app, vec![press(Modifiers::NONE)]);
+        run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(shown(&app), (true, true, true));
+        // A field of the Color panel has the keyboard focus: Shift+Tab and Tab do not show or hide anything.
+        app.run("window.panel", json!({"panel": "color"})).unwrap();
+        for _ in 0..3 {
+            run(&mut app, vec![]);
+        }
+        let fields: Vec<(egui::Id, egui::Rect)> = ctx.viewport(|vp| {
+            vp.prev_pass.widgets.layers().flat_map(|(_, w)| w.iter()).filter(|w| w.sense.senses_click()).map(|w| (w.id, w.rect)).collect()
+        });
+        let (id, rect) =
+            fields.into_iter().find(|&(id, _)| egui::TextEdit::load_state(&ctx, id).is_some()).unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("no field on screen"));
+        let click =
+            |pressed| egui::Event::PointerButton { pos: rect.center(), button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: Modifiers::NONE };
+        run(&mut app, vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(rect.center()), click(true)]);
+        run(&mut app, vec![click(false)]);
+        assert!(ctx.memory(|m| m.has_focus(id)), "the field has the keyboard");
+        for modifiers in [Modifiers::SHIFT, Modifiers::NONE] {
+            run(&mut app, vec![press(modifiers)]);
+            run(&mut app, vec![]);
+            assert_eq!(shown(&app), (true, true, true), "{modifiers:?}");
+            assert_eq!(app.ui.open_panel.as_deref(), Some("color"), "{modifiers:?}");
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn copy_and_paste_events_use_the_system_clipboard() {
         let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(vectorcraft_engine::Session::new(), Default::default());

docs/target-app-parity.md

@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur
   - The Control bar's underlined Transform link opens the Transform panel in a popover under it (reference point, X/Y/W/H, Rotate and Shear with their icons and angle presets, flips, shape properties, Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects), as its Stroke link does the Stroke panel; X/Y/W/H also show inline while the bar has room. The reference point locator is nine squares, the outer eight joined around the box.
   - In isolation mode the Control bar has an Exit Isolation Mode button (`object.exitIsolation`), except while a pattern is edited. Outside isolation mode, with one group, compound path, path, image, mesh or placed file selected, it has an Isolate Selected Object button (`object.isolate`), which also isolates a path inside a group that Direct Selection selected.
   - Tab shows and hides the panels (in the Type tool it types a tab) without moving the keyboard focus onto a field, so the next shortcut or letter still works; in dialogs and panel fields it moves between fields.
+  - Shift+Tab (`window.panels`) shows and hides the dock and the floating panels and leaves the toolbar and the Control bar as they are; hiding the panels with Tab or Shift+Tab also closes a panel popped out of the icon column.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
   - Shortcut sets other apps save as text (`.kys`) open in Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window. It matches each entry to a tool, command or panel by name and decodes the file's key and modifier codes where VectorCraft's default shortcuts agree on them; the user answers the rest, and Apply fills the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog's working set. The answers are kept with the preferences for the next import (`shortcutSet.read`, `importMatches.*`).
   - On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.