No Floating Windows: workaround?

Still cannot get used to no Floating Windows. Found this thread which reveals that they are definitively no longer an option in L8:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6848865&#6848865
Is there anyone who misses them that has found a good working practise to replace them?

thanks for your reply Mattrixx.. yes - the Event window Floats as does the Loop Browser, Audio Bin all float when opening from the Menu and holding down Option. But crucially the Mixer, Environment, Piano Roll and Score Editor *do not* stay floating after being opened in this way.. which to me is a real nuisance.
*Request to Logic Programmers*: if there is already a facility to open Floating windows on some of the items available in the Window list, could you please extend them to ALL the windows in that list?
Oh and by the way a real useful discovery:
I experimented with different modifier keys on that window list ( ie Control and Shift instead of the old L7 option + window for Floating Window) and guess what:
Control + choice of Window (ie Sample Editor, Piano Roll etc) opens Key Commands taking you to that particular window opening function)....
Now how many of you knew about that .. or care?

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