Hello, just want to share my thoughts about issues in v2 that very much slow down my specific workflow I'm kind of dissapointed, but not because of money and purchase itself, I believe Affinity deserves every penny, I'm a big fan of this software, it completely changes the speed and how I work, I love it with all my heart, and I always force and advertise it to everyone on social media, anyways
I work with huge amount of vector assets (like a library) , it's thousands of vector drawn layered graphic elements, with perfect naming and layering, what I do most part of the day is expanding this library, to work with this I basically need few main things except the drawing - quickly show/hide layers, rename it, and change colors via Global Colors,
unfortunately with v2 it became slow and hard to do i'm wasting my time for several things now, which I didn't had to in v1
1) The UI of the visibility in the layers, the position of show/hide icon is extremely close to the border, this spacing could've been bigger, I need to click that thing more then 600 times a day, can you guess how many times I actually hit it, and not the scroll ? %)) not many.. This icon is now minimalistic, in comparison to checkbox icon in v1, but it's now smaller, and not considered any spacing around, very annoying
2) the delay when changing global colors. In v1 you can see instant live change of global color, in v2 you see nothing unless you click outside the colorpicker box.
This is really annoying, the whole point of global colors is that you can instantly see the affect of colors, but it's not happening now.
3) Basically I could've forget about that and silently go back to v1 to continue my fast workflow that I used to, BUT it's impossible because once document saved in V2 it's impossible to reopen in v1, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT REALLY USING ANY FEATURES FROM NEVER VERSION, if you just open, do nothing and save, it will be unrecognizable for v1 anyways, I feel like this moment was not thought through, it's like "should we do compatible cross-version *.afdesign" files?" "Nah....that's too much of a work, let's just not make it happen, we want to forget all about v1 so don't let the customers use it too"
4) The fourth thing I hate with all my guts, it's in v1 also, I have written an email about it but got ignored, the annoying Rotating Canvas then you hold CMD(on mac) key and scroll the mouse, the problem is when you want to zoom in you need to hold the option key (which is next to the CMD) and scroll the mousewheel to zoom in, often I accidentaly hit the cmd button instead of option, and what I see is that my canvas is rotating like crazy carousel on my screen, and you can't undo it with cmd+z, you need specific hotkey to bring it back together, which Is waste of valueable time. I haven't found how to turn it off completely, it's really annoying this rotating canvas, I never used it once, I don't really understand who uses it in Vector Software, it's understandable in iPad tablet and Affinity Photo, when you draw something and you need rotate the canvas to make your hand movements to be comfortable, but why the heck would you need it in Vector drawing software and why can't I turn it off.
I understand that maybe my workflow is very different from most of the users, most of buyers are drawing some illustrations and stuff, not care if show/hide button is too close to the border, or global colors not very responsive, but it's a gamechanger to me, I'm a loyal customer and I started to use Affinity many years ago, not because it was cheaper then Adobe, or something like that, but because it's better then Adobe for me, it's faster, comfortable, and it fullfill my daily worktasks completely, but if this issues in v2 would be fixed, I will be happy
