kaffeeundsalz Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Hi everyone, this has bugged me for a while now, but it still seems to be present in the new betas. It seems that at least on my system, the beta versions of all three Affinity applications use accent colors that cannot be changed by the macOS Appearance options in System Settings. In both Designer and Publisher, menu items and some other selected UI elements are always shown in red. In Photo, they're shown in yellow. Now, I'd expect this to happen when in macOS, under System Settings > Appearance > Accent color is set to Multicolor because with this, applications can use their own individual color. However, even when I change this setting to some specific value (like e.g. Blue or Graphite), I am still unable to override the color used in the Affinity betas (but it works for all other apps on my Mac). The release versions of the suite don't show this behavior. Is it only my machine or do you experience this as well? Is there any way to fix this? Cheers kaffeeundsalz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff EmT Posted July 6, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 6, 2023 Hi @kaffeeundsalz I am unable to replicate this myself on the beta, which MacOS version are you using? Quote List of V2 FAQ's | Beta Software Forums | Affinity Photo (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 Hi @EmT! I'm on macOS Ventura 13.4, but just so you know, I'm running it on an unsupported Mac via OCLP. I was however able to resolve the problem by doing a full factory reset of all Affinity beta apps via the Clear User Data dialog. After restarting each app, everything was back to normal. It's sad because now I lost all my settings, brushes, assets etc. But at least it worked. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 26 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said: It's sad because now I lost all my settings, brushes, assets etc. But at least it worked. Perhaps try Settings, Beta Apps, Import from retail? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 Hey @walt.farrell, thanks for reminding me that this feature exists! I just tried it for the first time and it worked surprisingly well. The problem is that I had set up my betas in a significantly different way than the retail versions; for example, I had specific assets for testing purposes and the panel layout was different, too. Thank you anyway for pointing out this option, it's certainly better than starting from scratch! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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