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When maximized GUI editor (Shift+ESC or double click over tab), pallete and properties should not be hidden. Doing so make feature almost unusable (except by reposition of components visually, but developers take too little time on repositioning than defining properties and adding components).
Desired behaviour could be achived using SDI mode, and the "Pallete in toolbar" option, but should be one way to define properties window as "always on top" or enable a "properties" panel inside form editor, so it's not hidden by form edit window. A non elegant workaround is working in MDI mode and minimize all secondary windows. But, in any way, Properties will fill a large unecessary lateral or bottom area.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 73766 ***