OMD Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 The save window is overlapped by nearby tool palettes, and since this window can't be moved at all, I cannot access the buttons or see part of the window. The export window just before this one cleared the same tool palette no problem. woefi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted April 17 Staff Share Posted April 17 Hi @OMD Welcome to the forums. If you press TAB before opening the Save window does this make any difference? Which version of macOS are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) I've noticed this happens a fair bit as well. I'm running macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 on an M1 Pro MacBook Pro. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's frequent enough to be annoyingly memorable. After a little more reflection, pressing TAB before saving or exporting isn't really a solution, as it's just yet another workaround that hides the entire interface. I have ZERO other applications that have this type of UI/UX problem. Any chance this can be logged as a bug to be addressed in a future update? Shuffling panels around every time I need to save, and then having to shuffle them back (as it's the location where I want to use them) isn't a great user experience. Edited April 17 by Bryan Rieger Added reflection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMD Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 I'm using the latest Mac OS Sonoma 14.4.1. Tab does fix it as a workaround yes, as it removes all the palettes from the screen beforehand. Might be useful to note that moving the layers palette to the other side of my screen (where I prefer it) also causes overlap problems with windows that open on the top left side - like the gradient tool window. I prefer my layers palette on the right side so it can have full screen height. Working with a lot of layers and sharing the screen height on the right side with many other palettes is very difficult, which is why I pulled the layers palette out of the cluster in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woefi Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 I noticed this too, several times (– I'm now on macOS 13.6.6, but it has a history back to macOS 12). -> Even worse, sometimes a dialog (save or export – can't remember) comes right out of the layers panel! ...which forces the panel to slide to the side to have enough space around it... I think I have seen enough to use this occasion to kindly ask the dev team: Please reconsider all UI elements regarding the z-positions and also get rid of the "sliding out" save sheets and use proper dialog windows which you can move around. As much as I love the Affinity Suite and its multiOS approach, the lack of love for the native Mac UI is frustrating at times. Quote Main machine: iMac 2019 (21,5-inch 4k, 6core), 64GB RAM, 1TB nvme + 2TB ssd, running on Mac OS 13; Display setup: 28" 5k Display (primary) + 21,5" iMac4k-Display for studio panels (secondary); Keyboard layout: german apple extended keyboard (aluminium); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 2 hours ago, OMD said: Might be useful to note that moving the layers palette to the other side of my screen (where I prefer it) also causes overlap problems with windows that open on the top left side - like the gradient tool window. It won't do this if you dock the Layers panel to the left of the UI rather than floating it...... Old Bruce 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2449) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2449) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2449) MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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