tuomas_h

Apologies for the late reply, didn't receive a notification. This is on 10.14.6 Mojave, and I'm seeing the issue in Publisher and Photo as well, not just Designer. All updated to 1.9.1 through the App Store. I have another machine that's running 10.15.7 Catalina and the issue is not present there, so seems like it's specific to Mojave.

Unfortunately I'm seeing this bug again in Affinity Designer 1.9.0 downloaded from the Mac App Store.

This is because I use the "graphite" accent colour in Mac OS. This results in dark grey window controls that would otherwise be red, yellow and green.

Thanks for your reply. On Issue 1: It does affect any action in the window – selecting a value from a dropdown menu, or ticking a checkbox, focus changes to the document window. Also happens when stepping values in text fields up or down using arrow keys – I need to refocus the text field again after every step. The paragraph panel does appear to behave identically. I can type in values just fine – it appears the issue is with any action that immediately results in an update (in the style, document, etc). Thanks for the workarounds also, maybe someone will find them useful. My apologies for reporting issues that have already been reported – I did not notice these.

I'm currently dipping my toes in Publisher, looking to switch from InDesign, and would prefer to use it in Separated Mode with floating panels because that's how I'm used to working. However, I'm experiencing difficulties using the application in this mode. Issue 1: When editing styles (character style, paragraph style, group style), the focus changes away from the style editor window back to the document after every interaction. At best this is a minor annoyance, but it makes some things frustrating or almost impossible to accomplish, such as operating the slider when changing line width for a decoration. See the screen recording (second video) for a demonstration. Notice how after every change I make to a setting unfocuses the editor and focuses the document window, despite the fact that there's nothing to do in the document. Issue 2: When multiple documents are open and some of them are minimised to the Dock, editing any text in the document I'm working on will unminimise those documents. Also, if these documents are already unminimised, editing text will focus one of the other documents. See the screen recording (first video) for a demonstration. I have three open documents, and in the beginning I'll minimise two of those. In the document that's left I have simply a text box into which I'm attempting to type random characters. Issue 3: Text editing feels more sluggish in Separated Mode. An unrelated issue – happens both separated and non-separated mode – that's visible at the end of first video, is when deleting text with the backspace key, the Edit menu always flashes as if I was using a keyboard shortcut. Deleting text should not flash the Edit menu – it doesn't do that in any other Mac applications that also use the backspace key for deleting objects when not editing text. Affinity Publisher 1.8.3, Mac OS X 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro Late 2013. Thanks for your time. Document_Focus.mov Style_Focus.mov

I think this perfectly illustrates why the option to reverse Command and Option modifiers for this purpose would be beneficial. It's practically muscle memory, and having to constantly fight it in those few applications that are doing things differently – for a benefit that is not yet apparent to me as a new Affinity Designer user – results in increased cognitive load and frustration when using such an application. I see the explanation about ergonomics and how the "left hand falls on the standard Mac keyboard", but as a left-handed person (always using the pointing device with the left hand) I'm having a hard time buying this argument. How come the "industry standard" modifier assignment supposedly only works for single keys? In my experience, it works fine with at least three keys at once: holding Shift for constraining proportions, holding Option to scale from the centre, and holding Command to prevent snapping. I just tried this in Keynote, and had no problems performing the desired action, and also didn't find it more uncomfortable. At least in my use I need to resize from centre way more often than to resize without snapping, and I find it much nicer that the standard key to do that is closer to the Shift key. If anything, this is to illustrate that what works for some people in terms of ergonomics and workflow, may not work for others – particularly when we're talking about a tool that has many different user groups, each with more or less different kinds of needs. I, like nblck vote for consistency within the platform and putting that powerful muscle memory to use – add a preference to swap Option and Command for resize/drawing actions. It would make Designer feel that much more at home on the Mac. Thanks, likewise, for considering