[Remove Application Frame]

OK so that's a bizarre thing for them to do.

I installed V2 and I'm looking at a software interface from the late 1990s. On Windows. 95.

 

[Remove Application Frame]

"You just go under the menu heading "Window" and choose "Separated Mode"."

Option not in that location in V2.

So far cant see where it was moved to.  Hard to believe it would be removed.

 

[Separated Mode should be a foundational assumption]

6 minutes ago, loukash said:

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/workspaceModes.html > "About 'tearable' document windows"

A.k.a. Windows menu > Float VIew To Window

Yes I know about that thanks, its not the same thing. If I close all files, Im still looking at a big grey box blocking my view of the desktop. Really annoying.

[Android version please]

Its just crazy there isn't an Android version of Affinity.

My two cents.

Yadda yadda about M1 and processors etc. This is a professional tool, Affinity is not supposed to be just winning a drag race for number crunching speeds. I'd be quite happy with my Android tablet coming in a few milliseconds behind Mac, as long as it got the job done in a tolerable time. 

 

 

[Very slow application startup]

Just FYI - startup for V2 Photo on a MacBook M1 is 4 seconds ish. At 4 seconds I'm looking at the app and the open dialogue panel.

[Separated Mode should be a foundational assumption]

Great software overall. Thank you for the amazing one-shot pricing. That said...

Separated mode is a basic, and for a lot of people, essential feature. If I had known this was dropped from V2 it would have made me hesitate a long time before buying as quickly as I did. I'm kind of feeling like there should have been a conspicuous warning somewhere that it was not included in V2, nobody expects features to go backwards in new versions.

Way back in the day, the fact that Mac could run Adobe with just floating toolbars, and no awkward "application window" around them, was a godsend for designers. Those of us who used Windows instead/as well had to contend with the primitive OS requirements of Microsoft which signalled clearly that Windows was not an ideal design/graphics environment. 

Removing the separated mode option is just stunning to me, and signals a return to an awkward, older sort of unpolished era in graphics software.

Even tablets are moving towards floating app windows, and ultimately floating file windows. The ability to provide this will affect whether Affinity is seen as a clunky older software, or a forward-looking app that intends to compete in the future.

Crossing my fingers in hope this huge shortcoming will be addressed in the next update. Seriously, this app window things is just really awkward and annoying, like something that's just always getting in your way as you try to work.