Hoping I have the terminology correct

How about multiple dockers side by side? I would like to have the Tool Box docked as a single-icon-wide strip down the left of the screen and then things like brushes, palettes etc between that and the drawing canvas. Of course I would still like to have dockers on the right hand side

My reasoning is that the tool box does not really need a wide layout, I think of Affinity Designer and Photo, Clip Studio Paint, PS etc. While I do not want to be of the "Product X has this so Krita must have it too" school of thought. As a work-around avoid this I have currently stretched mine along the top of the canvas but it is a work-around and leaves Krita slightly out of kilter with the rest of the tools in my work-flow.

Again, not a deal breaker for me, but will help slot Krita more seamlessly into my workflow - as I do not have to look in a "non standard" part of the screen for a tool

Already possible. Just drag(click on the title to start dragging) and drop them into place.

Hey, the interface of Krita is really flexible. Have you tried drag'n'droping them and test how they can magnet?

You have to be careful not to get carried away with this.
https://imgur.com/MHugrMS

****! I feel really silly again

Although I will say that in my defense that perhaps I should have explained what I wasn't "getting" with this. I already had two docks "brushes" and "colours" above each other, on the left (the end result of David's animation). When I tired dragging the tool bar to the left it made a double column on the "upper docker" not vertically across both, as David achieves in his animation.

So if you work the way David does in his animation this works as I want. But this order of operation is not immediately obvious.

Rather my feature request should have been that the dockers stacked vertically, behave as a column. And that boils down to philosophical debates about which behavior is better. This current implementation reminds me of Blender's ability to subdivide windows - great but sometimes too powerful

Thanks for the tips guys

TheraHedwig wrote:Already possible. Just drag(click on the title to start dragging) and drop them into place.

Yes that much is obvious, but it was not until I saw David's animation that I realized I have to change the order of docking the tools. I could not start with two dockers above each other and achieve that same result

One problem is that we totally do not control how the dockers function. The dock widgets are part of Qt: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdockwidget.html.

We used to have, back in 2004, 2005 several different implementations of panels and dockers, and they were all so buggy and maintenance intensive that we heaved a collective sigh of relief, started using Qt's dockers and swore an oath on our keyboards that we'd never go back to a private implementation.