Stacked palettes disconnecting over time.

[mattspace]

This problem effects all my 2.6.0 Affinity apps.

I have all my palettes out on my second, and third (portrait) displays, they're stacked in long columns - one palette magnetically attached to the bottom of the one above, etc. So you can grab the drag point of the top palette, and the whole column can be moved as a single unit.

I am finding that after a couple of days of sleep / wake cycles etc, the palettes have inevitably disconnected from each other. They're still in roughly the same positions, though they seem to all have randomly changed in dimensions by a couple of pixels.

The only way I can really express this, is the magnetic effect with which the palettes connect just seems unreasonably weak. Affinity's palettes are an order of magnitude less strongly connected to each other, in terms of:

• the eagerness with which they jump to connect
• the amount of time you have to hold them to initiate a break to split them apart

...than any other applications with dockable palettes I've ever used.

I don't know if it's some problem Affinity has coping with sleep / wake cycles (because we know Affinity DOES have a problem coping with display disconnect / reconnect events associated with sleep / wake) that other applications don't have a problem handling, but no other apps I use have their palettes do this fractional resizing thing, and none of them have their docked palettes just disconnect from each other on their own.

I don't know what other information I can provide...

Action: Palettes are docked to each other on secondary screens.

Expected result: they stay connected to each other, and the same size. Dragging the top palette drags all the connected palettes as a group.

Observed result: they change sizes randomly by fractional amounts, which seems to break their connection to each other. Though they remain in roughly the same place on screen, dragging the top palette will reveal it is not connected to any others.

[MEB]

Hi @mattspace,
Thanks for your feedback. I’ve seen a few reports of panels growing by a few pixels (to the right and bottom) when placed outside the app window after each app restart -even on a single display - or possibly after waking from sleep (I’m not sure which). This seems to match the ‘randomly changing sizes’ you mentioned in your post and could very well be the cause of the disconnection between panels, as you suspect. I’ll try to reproduce the issue here and log it for the dev team to investigate.