This is what I did to get a few important tools ready all the time on my 5k iMac.
Created a palette for the left dock and put these tools in it:
- move/zoom (open)
- histogram (open)
- presets (mostly closed - duplicates the button in the upper righthand corner. Just for preset editing)
- exif (mostly closed)
- keywords (mostly closed)
- local corrections (open)
- hsl (open)
These settings work without scrolling with the film strip hight I usually set (ca. 16 images)
Creating custom palettes can really help to set up the most convenient working environment and I like DPL’s implementation which I find to be straight forward and easy to use.