Indicators for status and opened app

[Paul56]

I'm running Designer 1.9.3 on MacBook Pro M1 with Big Sur 11.4.

I have 2 suggestions:

1. Please provide an indication when the content has been changed. Apple usually places a black dot in the red 'close' dot on the upper left of the window. Others, including apple have also placed the word "edited" next to the document name on the window/tab. I see requests for this since 2015. It would be greatly appreciated. Too many times I am taken to a totally different task for indefinite lengths of time and will forget if a change was made or not. Yes I could always save before closing, but ... Please...

2. Please provide an indication the app is open. When Designer is selected from the Dock, I receive NO feedback. So I select it again, and again... Finally I check the top bar, which I have set to hide between uses, and there is the app, waiting. All other apps I've ever used provide some feedback like opening a blank window or the last window. Something should occur indicating the selection was seen and performed. Since I hide my top bar, there is no indication the app is open. Please give me something, a blank window, the 'New Document' or 'Open' dialog boxes, even the 'About' would be better than nothing. 

I hope you agree these would be a benefit. Thank you for your time.

 

[Old Bruce]

For number one there is an asterisk in the file name on the top tool bar to indicate an unsaved file.

 

For number two all I can offer is to have one of the panels undocked, that will show regardless of the main window showing when you switch to it.

[walt.farrell]

If the App was not running, then you should get (a) the Splash screen and then (b) the Welcome screen when you start it. So if you click on it in the dock, and don't get those, you could safely assume that it was already running.

Or, I think, you could not run in Separated mode.

This part of your post might make a good Feature Request, by the way, but I don't think it's a bug.

[Paul56]

Thank you for the responses.

1. I now see the '*'. Thank you very much for that one. I wish they'd also add the dot to the close circle.

2. I wasn't very clear with this one. The app is open with its windows closed when I select it from the Dock. In that case there is no indication the app was brought to the front or that anything occurred.

I realize neither of these are bugs, but I was unable to locate where to enter suggestions. I am open to that information.

[walt.farrell]

25 minutes ago, Paul56 said:

2. I wasn't very clear with this one. The app is open with its windows closed when I select it from the Dock. In that case there is no indication the app was brought to the front or that anything occurred.

My point was that, as you have chosen to Hide the current indication that the app was brought to the front, you might change your expectations and when nothing happens you might assumie that it worked, and you don't know simply because you've hidden that indicator

Or that you use the mode (non-Separated) that will give you a more clear indication. Or that rather than closing all the windows, you close the app completely when working in Separated mode.

These are all workarounds, of course, but pragmatically I think you'll need one, as I doubt there will be a change soon in this behavior.

27 minutes ago, Paul56 said:

I realize neither of these are bugs, but I was unable to locate where to enter suggestions. I am open to that information.

Suggestions go in the Feature Requests and Suggestions section of the forum. I see that a moderator has already moved this one for you, so there's nothing more for you to do in that regard.

[Paul56]

Thank you for the workarounds. I've already decide to 'assume' it worked.