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Hi Kobold,
It's already possible to choose the number of decimal places you want to display with the latest Beta. You can get it from here (usually pinned at the top).
You can find the settings in Affinity Designer Beta ▸ Preferences, User Interface section, Decimal Places for Unit Types.

Almost 70 years ago, when American government schools still taught English literature, I read the following lines by a famous English poet:
The old order changeth, yielding place to new,|
And God fulfills Himself in many ways
lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, change on my university campus was rapid and anxiety inducing. As soon as you learned how to do your job well with one piece of software on one platform, you were expected to learn to do your job in quite a different way with different software on a different platform. So we evolved from IBM/GML Script on the mainframe to PC-Write to Word Perfect to Word and perhaps beyond. We changed from mainframe computers managed by others to desktop appliances with floppy disks to desktop computer systems with hard drives that we were expected to manage ourselves. We went from printing on a giant laser printer two miles away in the computing center with a one-day turnaround time to printing on dot-matrix printers on our desktop to printing to networked laser printers in our offices.
I found it invigorating. I loved the wonderful complexity of it all. Many did not.
I encouraged my staff to think: "What joy to awake each morning in a world so filled with things to learn."
It turns out that even on university campuses, learning new things is not something people look forward to.
During those times we fought many wars of ideology and practicality over competing products: YTerm/Kermit, Word/Wordperfect, Mac/Windows, Token Ring/Ethernet, Gopher/Web.
My experience in those wars led me to formulate:
Granddaddy's Principles of the Compelling Reason
1.) When a person is satisfied using software that is good enough, only a compelling reason will persuade that person to change to different software 
2.) When a person is dissatisfied using particular software, then only a compelling reason will persuade that person to continue using that software 
I asked recently in these forums if disgruntled users of Affinity had a compelling reason to continue using Affinity.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201189-each-document-should-remember-export-location/&do=findComment&comment=1190038
 
Apparently Serif company owners found a compelling reason to sell the company to a larger competitor. Perhaps they thought that Affinity does not provide a compelling reason for its users to continue using the software.
Comments in these forums following the surprise announcement that Serif had been sold suggests that many Affinity users will find compelling reasons to change to a different product. How many will find a compelling reason to continue using Affinity is unknown.

My hope is that the products will continue to be available as stand alone products with no sub. And they will probably also get integrated into the subs that Canva offers. Hopefully the extra capital will enable even more development of tools for us. It would be great if they can see the value in keeping both the non sub products as well as any they might offer in the Canva subs. Time will tell. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Thank you for confirming @walt.farrell that I will still have the ability to re-download and use the V1 apps! I look forward to upgrading when I can

You should keep V1 installed until after you've installed and run V2 so it can migrate some of your content from the V1 apps. You can keep it installed longer if you want. And if you do delete the V1 apps, you can get them from Serif later if you purchased from Serif, or from Apple or Microsoft if you purchased from them originally.

+1 vote for this feature.

I also would appreciate having this feature as it would save me from having to use trial and error with the current stroke profile pressure graph to thin out or thicken the stroke in specific areas on a line. Having a tool similar to Illustrator's and CorelDraw's stroke width tool would be more straightforward and accurate for quickly making variable stroke thickness.

+1 vote for a vector fill pattern feature to be implemented into Affinity Designer as well.

I found using bitmap fills as a workaround unideal as it requires more steps and is ultimately not as easy to edit as Illustrator's Vector Pattern fill feature.

I certainly hope this feature is later added to Affinity Designer V2 if it hasn't been already (I'm still using V1).

I really really really mis this the most in Affinity Designer! Just a decent vector pattern tool.

+1 It's a very useful basic tool for flexibility in vector graphics.

+1 for this. the little pressure profile window is a pain to use with lot's of pressure points

Having this feature would save me the additional steps of exporting a bitmap image every time I need to edit my patterns that are defined using Affinity Designer's Bitmap Fill workaround.

As well, it's important for those like myself who use Affinity Designer art in vector animation programs where vector art is required for all assets so that they maintain their crisp quality no matter how large they appear on screen.

I add my vote to this too!  +1

+1!
I think the bitmap fill works okayish (but for me raster images kinda defeat the purpose of a vector based tool). I mostly use masks + groups for that purpose, but creating a style with a vector pattern would be sooo much more convenient - I really dearly wish for this feature! 🫰

Please add a functionality that duplicates Photoshop's canvas rotate feature using a shortcut and multitouch gestures to your desktop/windows app. This feature should not permanently change the documents bound like cropping would do, but rotate the view to make certain lines/strokes more easily reachable. Currently the lack of this feature slightly impedes my ability to work quick and acurate with affinity, as i am using a graphics tablet, not a tablet/touch device with an active screen.

(As I had this discussion before, where this misconception came up, just rotating the graphics tablet wouldn't do it, since you are not looking at your tablet, but your screen and you rely on your muscle memory. I might have been doing it wrong though for a decade)

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Hello,
Yes, absolutely, having to use a keyboard key and the scroll wheel is not effective when drawing with a graphics tablet.
THANKS

+1 vote for this feature.

I also would appreciate having this feature as it would save me from having to use trial and error with the current stroke profile pressure graph to thin out or thicken the stroke in specific areas on a line. Having a tool similar to Illustrator's and CorelDraw's stroke width tool would be more straightforward and accurate for quickly making variable stroke thickness.

I'm just going to keep bumping this feature request whenever it surfaces. 
Vector pattern fill is one of the few features of Illustrator that I really miss. I used it regularly and frequently notice its absence.

+1 vote for this feature.

I also would appreciate having this feature as it would save me from having to use trial and error with the current stroke profile pressure graph to thin out or thicken the stroke in specific areas on a line. Having a tool similar to Illustrator's and CorelDraw's stroke width tool would be more straightforward and accurate for quickly making variable stroke thickness.

This has been asked for since 2014. Six years later we still have the tiny, imprecise and often fiddly pressure graph. 

Previous requests:
1. 
 
2. 
3. 
 

As far as I can tell stroke with control options have not improved from v1. Please add stroke width tool.

Some examples:
 
 

In other words planned obsolescence. It's getting really tiresome. Everyone is so worried about plastic grocery bags but there is a ton more waste that from planned obsolescence, in my opinion. I actually probably won't buy an apple computer next time and it's the only type I have ever bought since I started using computers.

This is a must have as far as my work goes.  I've been doing hacks to get around it - but at a cost of many hours, literally.  I vote +1

Just reposting this v1 feature request in the v2 feedback forum.
Would be good to know if implementing this feature is even possible, I assume the inner software architecture doesn't allow it (only bitmaps) and it might only be possible with a hacky and unstable implementation, but if you can confirm it at least we can close the question with a definite answer.
Here's the v1 thread: 
 

It has not (yet) been added to V2 but if you want to add your support for that, try the Feedback & Suggestions forum. Leaving a "+1" here in the Questions forum won't do much good since the developers as a rule do not follow topics here since that would take time better spent on actual product development.

Quite. As always, proper vector fills (filling a vector shape with a vector pattern) is a pretty fundamental feature. That is the subject of this 13 page post. The lack of this feature if you need it (as I and many others do) makes it impossible to transition to the otherwise capable AffinityDesigner.
The whole point of using a vector illustration package must be to be able to do everything with vectors. Hatching using a bitmap fill, for example, is definitely no substitute.

Just wanted to add another voice asking for vector pattern fills. It's one of the few features of Illustrator that I really miss. I used it regularly and frequently notice its absence.