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De-Duplicate menu names!


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Text > Alignment > Align Left (and rest)

Layer > Alignment > Align Left (etc)

The leaf menu item names are identical. This is a problem because I am unable to assign a keyboard shortcut to the layer items. Seems MacOS will pick the first match it finds, in this case the text items, which are, of course, not the ones I wanted.

Please change one of the menu sets! Maybe Align to Left etc. to disambiguate.

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12 minutes ago, Dampsquid said:

This is a problem because I am unable to assign a keyboard shortcut to the layer items. Seems MacOS will pick the first match it finds

How are you assigning shortcuts? And what shortcuts are you trying to assign?

If you do it via Settings, Shortcuts in the Affinity application I don't understand why there would be a problem, nor why macOS would be getting confused. It just passes the keystroke to the application, which does the interpretation.

-- Walt
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Why not use the built-in shortcut system within the Affinity applications, instead?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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Well... right now, I suppose I've little choice :)

My preference would be as originally intended. Keeping a common workflow / method across all apps makes for simpler care & feeding of the system. I'd rather use a single common OS supported approach instead of a custom per-app method. The problem with layering different solutions to the same fundamental problem is you're more likely to encounter unexpected behaviour, and when you do troubleshooting is much harder.

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