File lost when switching

[LondonSquirrel]

In APub... Why are Lock and Unlock both enabled? It's an OR operation, they can't both be valid for a single layer. If a layer is unlocked, Unlock should be greyed out. According to the 'greyed out means unavailable' school of thought, both of these options are available.

[R C-R]

11 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

I have eight apps open... Your information 'there are no other apps open' is clearly wrong.

Are any of them hidden? For example, if you choose "Hide Google Chrome" & then switch to any other app (including Finder) is "Show All" still greyed out?

[LondonSquirrel]

32 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Are any of them hidden? For example, if you choose "Hide Google Chrome" & then switch to any other app (including Finder) is "Show All" still greyed out?

My apologies, I read too quickly. No, none were hidden. I don't hide apps, I use additional desktops instead.

[Unsub Press]

An interesting discussion. 

While, for me, the greyed-out menu item is a perfect solution, that's predicated on some assumptions that, while true for me, may not be for everybody. It's a perfect solution because it prevents an inadvertent loss of work and interruption of workflow.

I agree that it raises some questions, but they're questions I'd generally expect anybody competent to overcome the initial learning curve to use any of these apps to trivially overcome. Where it represents a deviation from expected behaviour, which is what it would almost need to be in order for it to be a problem, the question then becomes 'why is this normally-available function unavailable', which is pretty trivial to answer. In this instance, my first thought would have been to save my work and launch Photo, at which point I'd have received the message concerning the new version, remembered that It was sitting in my downloads folder, and updated, with no loss of work or significant interruption of workflow.