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This looks clear, does yours not look like this? if you only see gray it might be a bug that the Devs would want to look into.

Ok, now show us some that are off along with the ones that are on, so we can see a COMPARISON

Those layers are obviously off because if you have them on, they are white, unless there's something wrong with the rending of the UI on computer. The difference is pretty obvious as shown below. Why don't you show us your on-vs-off comparison so we can see the difference in contrast on your system. Showing 3 of the same thing offers no point of comparison.

yes, they're off because the dot is gray, not bright white. This is not hard.

If professional software costing $100 is too much to spend on your business or side hustle, then you probably need to find a different business or side hustle. You get the entire suite forever for half the cost of a single month of Adobe, quit complaining and pay for your tools. Cheapskates.

You're the confident one. I'd like to see this theory for sure. Have you considered the idea that some of us hold our pencil in our right hand, and use our left hands to interact with UI elements? Even if the original location is not the most convenient according to a yet undisclosed UI theory, the original poster's workflow along with mine (regardless of how you may judge them) are still being interrupted by the absence of this button. Adding it back to where it has been for years will not hurt the experience for those who do not want to use it. Open your mind a bit, kid.

OK, so hear me out. The option to double tap the apple pencil is available in the settings. Currently it allows you to set double tap actions per tool. Could you add the option to universally activate the 3 finger swipe menu with a Pencil double tap? This would negate the need to raise your pencil and change you hand orientation to activate this menu, since double tapping the pencil is such an easy action. Thoughts?

Adobe's implementation creates onscreen menu clutter that may cover smaller objects located below the currently selected object, making them hard to interact with and breaking up workflow. Adobe's implementation is a neat idea, but is more obtrusive than useful in practice. In the new UI, the node tool has the trash icon in the top context menu when the tool is selected (a confirmed missing feature from the selection tool that will likely be fixed in 2.1). I agree lower left is a bit of a reach, but icons hovering over the work area at all times is not the solution. The top context bar is an easy-to-reach place for functions such as this. Though personally, my muscle memory is so used to the bottom left that I don't find it inconvenient, and since there's room, adding it back can't hurt.

I put in a bug report about the missing trash icon, they said it should probably be there and they're looking into it. It most certainly needs to be there, deleting should be a one tap process and not under a sub menu.

It used to be on the bottom left, I put in a request to get it back and they said they weren't sure why it wasn't there. Likely an unintentional omission.

I like compact mode, i can leave it open and it doesn't take up as much horizontal space on the workflow.

A more robust cat tool would definitely be appreciated, haha!

Hmm, I kinda like the flat UI design in the side panels, but I miss the color a bit. Though I see what people are saying about the icons feeling a bit more childish. Honestly, I'm kind of torn on the UI icons. I think some of the icons look better and some look worse: - Pen, pencil, knife, ruler, transparency - these look good - Contour, round corner, zoom - A bit of a step down but not too intrusive - Gradient - better shape but vibrant color would be nice like the old one - Dropper Tool - really hate it, should be redone

Seriously, I think the responsiveness of Affinity's development and support team is one of the primary reasons i use this software! You guys are amazing!

Upon further inspection, I found that the trash Icon DOES appear on the top context menu, but only when using the NODE tool. When you are using the selection tool, the trash icon is missing, leaving no apple pencil-based way to delete selected items. Moving the trash icon to the context bar from the bottom left corner does make sense (though not ideal for MY muscle memory, haha)... but it definitely needs to appear while using the selection arrow tool.

Hi! Version 2.0 is amazing! The new context items at the top are so much easier to use... but there is one missing function that is already causing me a bit of grief. This probably isn't a bug, but it kinda feels like an unintentional omission. On V1, there was a trash icon on the bottom left that made for an easy way to quickly delete anything selected. On V2, it appears to be missing, and the only way to delete an object is to pick up the pencil and three-finger swipe down for the new menu, which throws off the fluidity of the fast illustration style I've become accustomed to. If I ask really nicely, can this be put back? Pleeeaaassseee? haha. Thanks so much!

Yes, works as in your video on the pop-out menu only. The same "space vertical/space horizontal" buttons are still grayed out when added to the toolbar. Seems like a bug.

Hi! Title says it all, i would like to be able to distribute or space evenly these selected nodes, but the distribute and spacing options are grayed out. The alignment buttons work great on selected nodes. Obviously distribute left, top, side, etc wont work, but distribute center/spacing seems like it should work just fine. Can you activate this on the next version?

I'm gonna toss a bump on this one too. There's a box in the stroke pallet that says "scale with object", would really love to see this same checkbox added to the context bar for rounded corners to scale with object on a per object basis (preferably on by default).

Maybe I should have worded it as: "It's a toggle, if it's not working the way you want, click it again"

Old thread but I figured it out, and thought I'd share the solution incase of passerby's happening upon it. On the bottom left of the layers pallet is this stack of paper looking icon, that tooltips to "edit all layers" - if you turn this on it only lets you edit the layer you have selected, turn it off and all layers are fair game!

Sure, here is a video. First 10 seconds or so shows me trying to open .afdeisgn files from icloud. Both from the files app (which opens them in Photo), and from inside affinity designer (which opens them correctly, but notice how all the afd files have afp icons). Second 5 seconds or so shows me opening from 'on my ipad' - afd files open in afp and have purple icons. Last 5 seconds show me delete photo, and files return to opening in designer correctly and have the correct icons My_project_2.mp4

For some reason, and for a long time now (months at this point), when i have Affinity Photo installed on my ipad, it steals the file associations for .afdesign files away from Designer. The icon shows as the purple icon for designer files, and if i tap them to open them, they open in photo. If i delete Af Photo, the Designer files return to having their proper blue icons and open in designer, but if i reinstall Photo, they revert back to opening in the wrong application. I've attached a screenshot of my iCloud drive files on my iPad showing .afdesign files with purple photo icons. It's a weird bug for sure. I've tried removing all files from the icloud folders, deleting the icloud folders, reinstalling the apps and recreating the icloud folders by saving new files in the apps, but photo still takes over afdesign file associations on ipad. Desktop is obviously unaffected.

When you copy(cut) and paste on the main canvas or any artboard, the item pastes in-place, exactly where copied item is, this is the expected behavior. When you copy/paste outside of an artboard in the gray pasteboard area, the pasted item respects the Y(vertical) axis position but arbitrarily places itself on the X axis in a seemingly random spot. It would be great to be able to have the same "paste in place" functionality outside of the artboards also. Screen_Recording_2020-04-24_at_8_38.15_AM.mov

Omg I’m an idiot, I just messed around with it and found out that you can click the end nodes a second time to grab just the one. Wow, nevermind my last question.