Floating toolbar should be in left white space margin

[ostinatofreak]

The floating toolbar in the block-style editor is always covering up what I most recently wrote, which is EXTREMELY bothersome to a writer who is trying to achieve flow of writing (one needs to re-read what they just wrote quite often, but the stupid toolbar is ALWAYS covering it up - words cannot describe how annoying I find this to be). There is a ton of wasted white space in the left and right margins on my landscape-view desktop monitor. Why not make use of this white space and make this floating toolbar a vertical bar in the left margin (instead of the horizontal bar it currently is)?

I'm sure the floating horizontal toolbar is a life-saver for those using smartphones where I assume there is no white space in the left/right margins, but I would wager that most people writing blog articles are not using smartphones to write; they are using desktops and laptops that all have this wasted white space.

[sabernhardt]

Hi and thanks for the report!

Because this involves the block editor, it should be reported on GitHub. Could you open a new issue there?
​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/new/choose

For now, I recommend using the existing "Top toolbar" view to determine whether that works well for you.

[sabernhardt]

Thanks for opening an issue on GitHub!

​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38592

I'll close this ticket now.