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OG 5, 6, 7 can live (be installed) on the same machine, no problem.
OG 5 and 6 should not be open (launched, running) at the same time. They use the same workspaces, so if you have the same doc open (accidentally), it gets confused, and it will confuse you even more. So, they can be open at the same time, but I advise against it for sanity reasons.
I have gotten into the habit of closing all docs in version X before opening version
Y. Because the last thing I want when opening version Y is for it to automatically (it does) open the docs I had open with version X.
FYI, I am sticking to OG 5, the GUI is better; the context handling is better, and it has less bugs. There is another thread Reasons for Sticking with OG5 , that Ken has opened, for that purpose. I have not provided a complete list yet.
To be perfectly honest, I would stick to OG 4, except for one nasty problem: it does not render on Retinas. OG 5 has a couple of major problems, serious dramas, that OG 4 does not have. But the OG 5 GUI is much better than 6 and 7, and I have gotten used to OG 5 and its quirks.
Yessiree bob. I could not have said it better myself.
Years ago, I was responsible for getting OG into every customer site that I consulted at. Now I cannot recommend it, because it is so broken.
It appears that the different GUI components are written by different people, who do not speak to each other.
There is no overall GUI design, no cohesion.
When you switch from one tool or palette to another, the interaction required is quite different. ESC means one here, another thing there, and a third thing somewhere else. That is just one example.
They do not seem to understand that all these changes between versions actually affect productivity. Each version has substantial changes to the GUI, which either removes features or (as in your example) splits functionality across two tools.
They have also lost the sense, the meaning, of context. The various effects are labelled “contextual”, but that “contextual” is in name only, it has no context. V6 has somewhat more understanding of context, and V5 has somewhat more again. The point is, as you say, in every progressive version, the product is losing functionality, specifically functionality that affects productivity. Loss of context means having to enter more keystrokes in the later version, to perform the same action that one did in the previous version.
I too, welcome improvements. But not removal of features. And not loss of functionality.
They’ve killed the goose that laid the golden egg, for sure. They are going after the whiz bang market, which is only interested in the look, the image. Not serious work.
Yes. It is telling, when the fix is a return to the operation of the previous version. Perhaps they can just save the expense of breaking it in the first place.
That point manipulation thing (I will refrain from calling it a tool) is a train wreck, it has to be fixed. But more important, they must not subtract anything the Selection tool currently does.
Cheers
