Thank you Stephen - sorry, not making myself clear enough. I like the LCH panel as BIG as possible* and in NX2 it seems confined by the size of the edit list; so to get it wider one needs to stretch the whole edit list sideways? Also it was the image window I am worried about, the edges look ominously grey rather than trad mac blue bubbles on white?

*I rarely have pics with lovely clear edges and bright colours like this, so the curve in LCH becomes a series of undulating steps, but precisely matched to parts of a landscape
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...1&d=1212566130
Note F2,4,5 tools which I rarely touch minimised and out of way and F2 & F6 where they are handy - I don't think you can pull them out of the tool-bar in NX2? Nor have tool settings as squarish floating windows?