I just updated to Acorn 8.3 on a Mac still running MacOS 14.2 (Sonoma), and the tools pane on the left of the screen has suddenly changed into a fixed position palette that slightly overlaps the image, which makes it impossible to work on the upper left corner of the image. Is there anyway to disable this feature? If not, is there a way to move the palette? I’ve been unable to drag it off the image.
Thanks,
Barry
The same happens for me (but using MacOS Sequoia). It looks like an error, as the tools palette gets no longer correctly integrated into the Acorn window. But for the meantime, if you activate the fourth option in the general settings (see screenshot below; my system is in German language), you will get separate windows for the tools palette (but also for the inspectors) and you may move the tools palette.
Thank, I had totally forgotten about that options. Its a nice work around until this gets fixed.
The way this is laid out is on purpose. Apple’s apps moving forward have this little gap to … show content or something, I don’t know. It’s a thing. Is it a good thing? Some people really don’t think so. Here’s Apple’s Preview app doing the same:
It’s part of the “Liquid Glass” UI conventions.
At any rate, images should be respecting the palette overlap, and not opening up under it, and when you use Zoom to Fit (⌘0), it’ll fit so it’s not under there. Of course if you pan your image to the left, it’ll go under the tools palette just like it would previously, only now there’s not a giant blank bar spanning from the bottom of the tool palette to the bottom of the screen. Now there’s more image to see.
That makes sense. I figured it was due to the “Liquid Glass” UI changes, just for some reason I didn’t expect to see a difference on systems that use the older UI. I’ve just got to start thinking of it as exposing more of the image, not blocking part of it…
Thank you Gus for this explanation - it’s helpful for the whole change to “Liquid Glass” in MacOS.
Jürg
