No Visual Feedback to Indicate a Style Selection in the Styles Panel...

[Hangman]

There is no visual feedback to indicate a style selection in the Styles Panel on Mac, unlike on Windows...

Mac Left | Windows Right

[GarryP]

Unless I’m not correctly understanding what’s been said, what you seem to be calling a bug here is what someone else is asking for elsewhere: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/212738-styles-keep-being-selected/

Or, to put that another way, what you want here was being called a bug there.

[Hangman]

Hi @GarryP,

This was more to do with the fact that on Mac there is no indication at all when selecting Styles... On Windows, you see a light blue highlight indicating the physical selection, on Mac, there is no highlight at all.

This should probably be added (if not already included) to AF-3891 where we have the same issue with the Assets and Symbols palettes...

The post you linked to I would say is a different issue but I'm equally unsure what the expected behaviour is since if you have either a Style, Asset or Symbol selected in their respective panels, drawing a new shape that uses the default light grey fill leaves the last selected Style, Asset or Symbol selected again in their respective panels...

[GarryP]

I guess this may be one of those things that’s probably best left with Serif to sort out which way they want to do things.

I hardly ever use Styles, and I don’t use Assets or Symbols much, so I don’t really have a preference either way.

[Hangman]

Absolutely... part of the equation is understanding what the expected behaviour is in the first place...

[stokerg]

Hi @Hangman,

I've logged this with the Developers to and linked it to AF-3891  

Personally, with these areas of the app, I think they should match on both Operating Systems as it just makes for a more unified look of the app.

 

[Hangman]

Hi @stokerg,

Thanks for logging and linking...  

1 minute ago, stokerg said:

Personally, with these areas of the app, I think they should match on both Operating Systems as it just makes for a more unified look of the app.

I completely agree, I would advocate the Windows approach for these three particular panels, i.e., a selection shows the Asset, Symbol or Style with a system coloured highlight to indicate what is actually selected in the respective panels...