Mac Version – Missing List View in Materials Panel (UI Regression)

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I am a professional SketchUp user working on macOS, and I want to report a significant usability issue with the Materials (Colors) panel.

In the current Mac version of SketchUp, the Materials browser only displays materials as large thumbnail icons (grid view). There is no available option to switch to a list view.

This creates several problems:

  • It is difficult to quickly scan and identify materials by name

  • It slows down workflows when working with large material sets

  • It reduces efficiency compared to previous workflows and the Windows version

On Windows, users still have the ability to toggle between thumbnail view and list view. This inconsistency between platforms is problematic, especially for teams working across both environments.

This appears to be either:

  • A removed feature (regression), or

  • A missing parity feature on macOS

Request:
Please add the ability to toggle between:

  • Thumbnail (grid) view

  • List (text-based) view

This should ideally include:

  • Sortable columns (name, size, etc.)

  • Compact list display for faster navigation

This change would significantly improve usability and bring consistency between Mac and Windows versions of SketchUp.

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Long standing issue among several others with the Mac material picker interface which was built a long time ago on the Mac OS colors management. List view has never been available on Mac. Developers are reportedly working on a new UI that will be universal and the same across both platforms but it is in beta and not yet available in the deployed SketchUp versions. Can’t speak for them about when it will be deployed in standard SketchUp. But as this change is in the pipeline and as the lack of list view has gone uncorrected for all these years despite being constantly requested, I think it’s safe to guess that the Mac version will not get “fixed” rather we will need to wait for the newer universal UI to be released.

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Understood, thanks, Riley.

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