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I agree completely with this. The old way was better -- in fact, it was one of the best time savers in the app. It is also <ahem> the way Photoshop & most other apps behave, & for good reason.
 
BTW, if you must change things like this in updates, please include that in the description of the update on the Mac App Store. I spent several hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my system when I noticed I could no longer marquee zoom unless I selected the zoom tool & held down the alt key.

Don't feel alone. I wear glasses, but unless I slide the UI Gamma to max, that dotted spacer icon is just about invisible, & even then just barely so.
 
(Yet another reason we really, really, reaaaaalllly, need higher contrast options for UI elements, not just for the Tools panel but for the Toolbar as well. At least the panel tools have nice, high contrast black backgrounds when selected, but up in the Toolbar, it can be difficult to tell the dark grey 'selected' items from the light grey 'unselected' ones, particularly if the gamma is cranked up.)

Don't feel alone. I wear glasses, but unless I slide the UI Gamma to max, that dotted spacer icon is just about invisible, & even then just barely so.
 
(Yet another reason we really, really, reaaaaalllly, need higher contrast options for UI elements, not just for the Tools panel but for the Toolbar as well. At least the panel tools have nice, high contrast black backgrounds when selected, but up in the Toolbar, it can be difficult to tell the dark grey 'selected' items from the light grey 'unselected' ones, particularly if the gamma is cranked up.)

Hello everyone.
 
I'm just a retired old geezer with almost zero artistic skills but a decades old interest in technical drawing. I used to use Freehand with a Powermac running OS 8 for that (back when it was a Macromedia product). I have looked for years for an affordable vector drawing app that runs on modern Macs. For a while I tried making do with Freehand MX running in "Rosetta" emulation mode on an Intel Mac but when Apple dropped support for Rosetta with the release of OS 10.7 Lion, that became even more impractical than it already had become.
 
To be honest about it, I had never heard of Serif until I read about Affinity Designer being the Mac App Store runner up. Being cheap cautious I downloaded the trial version but it only took playing with it for about ten minutes to convince me my search was over & to visit the store & buy it.  :)
 
I have only used it for about a week & only explored a fraction of what it can do but it has already become my favorite drawing app of all time.

Hello everyone.
 
I'm just a retired old geezer with almost zero artistic skills but a decades old interest in technical drawing. I used to use Freehand with a Powermac running OS 8 for that (back when it was a Macromedia product). I have looked for years for an affordable vector drawing app that runs on modern Macs. For a while I tried making do with Freehand MX running in "Rosetta" emulation mode on an Intel Mac but when Apple dropped support for Rosetta with the release of OS 10.7 Lion, that became even more impractical than it already had become.
 
To be honest about it, I had never heard of Serif until I read about Affinity Designer being the Mac App Store runner up. Being cheap cautious I downloaded the trial version but it only took playing with it for about ten minutes to convince me my search was over & to visit the store & buy it.  :)
 
I have only used it for about a week & only explored a fraction of what it can do but it has already become my favorite drawing app of all time.

Hello everyone.
 
I'm just a retired old geezer with almost zero artistic skills but a decades old interest in technical drawing. I used to use Freehand with a Powermac running OS 8 for that (back when it was a Macromedia product). I have looked for years for an affordable vector drawing app that runs on modern Macs. For a while I tried making do with Freehand MX running in "Rosetta" emulation mode on an Intel Mac but when Apple dropped support for Rosetta with the release of OS 10.7 Lion, that became even more impractical than it already had become.
 
To be honest about it, I had never heard of Serif until I read about Affinity Designer being the Mac App Store runner up. Being cheap cautious I downloaded the trial version but it only took playing with it for about ten minutes to convince me my search was over & to visit the store & buy it.  :)
 
I have only used it for about a week & only explored a fraction of what it can do but it has already become my favorite drawing app of all time.

Hello everyone.
 
I'm just a retired old geezer with almost zero artistic skills but a decades old interest in technical drawing. I used to use Freehand with a Powermac running OS 8 for that (back when it was a Macromedia product). I have looked for years for an affordable vector drawing app that runs on modern Macs. For a while I tried making do with Freehand MX running in "Rosetta" emulation mode on an Intel Mac but when Apple dropped support for Rosetta with the release of OS 10.7 Lion, that became even more impractical than it already had become.
 
To be honest about it, I had never heard of Serif until I read about Affinity Designer being the Mac App Store runner up. Being cheap cautious I downloaded the trial version but it only took playing with it for about ten minutes to convince me my search was over & to visit the store & buy it.  :)
 
I have only used it for about a week & only explored a fraction of what it can do but it has already become my favorite drawing app of all time.

Yosemite style...mockup
 
Obviously less than half done but you get the idea :)