Just found out about this little program Tablet Pro that lets you create custom touch keypad with custom shortcuts key. Check out its Photoshop demo on its youtube channel, it looks very promising for tablet PC like surface pro. The free demo installation is a bit confusing, you need to download two installations from two different places. One from MS store, and the other one by sign up their email subscription.

It could potentially replace Docking mode at least for now. I'm still experiencing the docking mode reset to blank randomly, I've gone back to the classic mode for now.