Penpot Grid Layout feedback, join the conversation!

Hi y’all! I am excited with the new features but I am about to assume that Grid Layout do not work the way or for the uses I expected to.

I am designing a website and I wish Grid layout would help me to set a basic grid of colums and lines to order my elements. For now, I notice that I can set the grid, but for some reason it does not work as a space in which the components fits itself. It is actually working the way around: if my component is larger that a column, the grid (and all columns) reajust itself to adapt to the object.

I am doing something wrong? Shouldn’t “grid” works as a basic structure in which you fit elements? Why is it adjusting itself automaticly when I move my objects?

This is happening mostly when I use Fraction (FR) columns. I have a clue that this might be hapenning because of the unit I set. Though, this might be a core issue:

I need a % or a Fraction logic to make a responsive page. However, when I opt for % columns, the system do not respect the paddings I set (using pixels) to calculate percentages. This behavior automaticly let me to chose Fraction columns. However, FR unit seems extremely organic. Here is a picture to illustrate what I am saying:

What if anyone at penpot tries a tutorial on web responsive layout using Grid? Or anyone else on coomunity that figured it out :pray:

Other considerings:
1: Grid layout could automaticly calculate sizes based on paddings and board size. (it would be really really helpull)

2: I am not sure what would be a use case for different units on the same grid. If we are speaking of CSS coding, I imagine devs would get crazy to work on a layout that uses one column in %, two in Fraction and other in pixels. Am I wrong?