Kobold

Still after days ....... daily switching Mini off ....... and on ........... 4 seconds to start, just checked again!

Heeeeeeeeeeeere ...... we go! Finally, after "not counted years" of super gigantic ultra mega slow startup ........... ............. Affinity Designer now starts in 5 seconds on my Mac Mini! Yeah! Is this a reason to party? Somehow yes, but: Nobody, really nobody may tell me this would not been possible on macOS 14. So on one hand I am very happy, that this now works nice, but I will not forget the "years of shame" being the slowest starting app I ever had, compared to other apps! So the winner is ............... ha ha ................... Affinity Designer, getting the "slow cucumber award" from me, and a small "fast peanut award" for now being fast as it should be! Thanks! :-)

Still the same old Guiness book of records super slow startup time of these apps. Why other apps, also big apps, open way faster, so you can keep working within a few seconds? Example? Pixelmator Pro ........ takes 3 seconds, to be ready, so you can start working with the app. Affinity Designer V2? About 30 seconds! How often you work on a project, but then you have to make a little graphic, and need to use Designer, but ............. you have to wait ...... This is so outdated, so unprofessional, so "vintage style app" ......... but I do not want a vintage app! I want a fast starting and not workflow killing app! Just my thoughts about that!

As soon as they will come with a sub model, I will be out and search for alternatives! 100% sure! 🙂 As simple as that! "planned at this time" says it all about the future plans!

But still I can not understand why the visibility of the tool icons, within an app that is made for productivity, a work horse for many users, ..... is some kind of limited by such "stupid" and not logical decisions, making these icons almost invisible, and so hard to see, if an option is switched on or off. Yes, this is stupid, cause it is a decision that is making app harder to use, often you have to double check, etc. etc. ..... If I build a tool for users, I make this tool as easy to use, as possible. Period! Here this is just not the case. Why not giving us an option for settings for all the icons? That should be way easy to be done. So every user can make his own settings, may be choose own colors .... not to be fancy, but to get visibility ... what should be normal and standard in such an app!

Yes, please give us a button for this. This happens so easily and so fast, and you may not see it in the first moment. I had different dimensions, and had no idea why, then my shape was rotated ............ then I found out what was happening.

When my mouse is on a size button in transform window, and I accidently hit the scroll wheel, the number changes. As I often work with scroll wheel it happens often while working, and to me this is pretty strange. How can I disable this function, so scroll wheel action does not affect the values in transform window?

Thanks man!

Hi Garry ...... document setting is set to mm, and show lines in points is not activated. Pencil lines width is shown in mm, only vector brush remains with px.

Hi, vector brush thickness is shown in px, but I always work in mm only. (only text size is pt) Is there a way to get a mm setting for this thickness as a standard unit? I can type a value plus mm behind that, but that´s just too much to do that every time. Would be nice if there would be a solution for that, so I could change that to mm. Thanks.

Shame on me .......... ha ha ......... I usually open up Affinity Designer via Spotlight, ..... just enter Aff and get the results. And usually I get the beta, the normal version at first places, so did so, and clicked the non beta version. Good you replied, just checked the version, ......... 1.10.6 ........ had the Designer 1 version, where the problem was present like in the previous 2 version. Now checked the updated 2 version, buttons are working fine now. Sorry for the confusion!

Hi, what I do not understand: Today there was an update on App Store ........ but the button problem ist not fixed on this update. So we have to wait for a fix "may be" in the next update. Why was the fix not included in this update, although the beta has the fix since some weeks now?

Yeehaw! Never thought I would see this alive! Two sides: On the one side ....... a bit shame on you, cause such things have to work properly in a prof. app! On the other side, thanks, that it´s finally fixed now. Really, I been so often frustrated about this, thought my mouse is working wrong, my Mini is doing wrong, and what ever ....... Good it is now finally nice working! Thanks!

How can we get info about beta update?

Just checked that on my Macbook Air M1, and got the same problems here. Even bigger problems, as the contour button is only showing reactions on two thirds of its shape. No matter what display settings I choose, it´s the same problem. So is this an apple problem, or an Affinity problem that could be solved by Affinity? This is just a pretty annoying thing, as in all my work with mainly Affinity Designer I been clicking thousands of times with no action happening over the time. I just checked AD1 and it´s the same problem. I wonder why I did not find out earlier, that it´s a button shape problem, not a problem of the whole button not responding. So I guess there is plenty much mac users that for sure have the same problem, and not knowing, why this "damned button" is not responding to their clicks. It´s not the button, it is just not hit the right place inside the button. It would be amazing if you could fix this big problem!