Settings / preferences from Designer 1 to Designer 2 not migrated like I would've expected

[LuvMyDesignTools]

Windows OS, said yes when asked to migrate during installation. default installation.

Just tracking the stupid little things that are hindering a fast and pleasant project start in Designer 2 instead of continuing in Designer 1:

• Designer 1 setup to Symbols panel down with the transform panel, assets panel open; had to go find both of them in Designer 2 (both under Windows tab). Had to drag Symbols where I wanted it. Assets opened into default space the same between two versions, but Designer 1 maintains the assets panel view of my category that I want to keep open and Designer 2 returns to default category across sessions.
• Snapping preferences didn't carry over. This one's pretty annoying but easy to fix. Enable snapping at View->Snapping and select the ones you want. Seems like this could've been migrated rather than making me enable and go through the checkboxes. Designer 2 in order to re-establish look-and-feel that I'm used to. Again, not a big deal, but certainly could've been migrated. Similar for rulers on by default the way I had it set in Designer 1. Grid settings should really be a user interface setting rather than a per document / per artboard preset. 
• Customize Toolbar - I didn't have any tool customizations, so can't say whether this migrated or not. But I do like icon and text turned on and I had to do that manually in Designer 2. Just confirmed that I do have it set that way in Designer 1, but it didn't migrate over. 
• Certain preferences for new documents should really be maintained or give me an opportunity to set up as defaults... New document setting to exclude margins or set them to 0 keeps getting reset. Either allow me to set my preference for items on new document panel, or maintain my last choice. I use inches, so that default is working for me, but I did notice as an experiment that if I open a new document and change units to pixels and then close down and re-open and create another new document, inches is back as my default unit. Un-checkbox to include margins is also not being maintained. In poking around a little more, it does look like these are probably all tied to setting up a preset, which I never used in Designer 1 and therefore wasn't accustomed to doing in Designer 2. Will look into this further.

[walt.farrell]

43 minutes ago, LuvMyDesignTools said:

but Designer 1 maintains the assets panel view of my category that I want to keep open and Designer 2 returns to default category across sessions.

I had not noticed that. Thanks for mentioning it. We should check whether that is intended, or a bug.

If it helps, Designer 2 does not return to the Default category. It returns to the alphabetically first category, or the oldest category, depending on the sort order. So, if you have a particular one you always want to start on, you can just give it a name that sorts first, perhaps rename it to start with a - or _ character.

47 minutes ago, LuvMyDesignTools said:

Customize Toolbar - I didn't have any tool customizations, so can't say whether this migrated or not. But I do like icon and text turned on and I had to do that manually in Designer 2. Just confirmed that I do have it set that way in Designer 1, but it didn't migrate over. 

I think that Tools, and Tool Bar, and Studio, changed enough that they did not want to carry them over automatically.

48 minutes ago, LuvMyDesignTools said:

Certain preferences for new documents should really be maintained or give me an opportunity to set up as defaults... New document setting to exclude margins or set them to 0 keeps getting reset. Either allow me to set my preference for items on new document panel, or maintain my last choice. I use inches, so that default is working for me, but I did notice as an experiment that if I open a new document and change units to pixels and then close down and re-open and create another new document, inches is back as my default unit. Un-checkbox to include margins is also not being maintained. In poking around a little more, it does look like these are probably all tied to setting up a preset, which I never used in Designer 1 and therefore wasn't accustomed to doing in Designer 2. Will look into this further.

You can create your own Document Presets, with the settings you want. You can even, in V2, update one of the pre-installed Presets, which was difficult (if possible) to do in V1.