Write it on a Rock

For the most part, I love the new Designer client in 8.5. I absolutely love the way they changed the Design elements area where you can expand the entire list of forms/views/etc and scroll through them instead of just showing a few and having to scroll through each section individually. I like how you can drag-and-drop the "Eclipse Views" around to change where your information is and especially being able to tab them onto a different area. I love the Perspectives you can customize and the new Working Sets for your applications.

There are a few annoyances I've encountered, one of which I think is due to new mail notification in the status bar, but this is probably the one that bugs me the most.


I'm already missing the font dropdown selection from previous versions. Is there a preference out there that I can set so that it will show 10-15 different choices instead of just five? Yes, I'm aware I can click into the dropdown and press "V" to take me to the Vs or "C" to go to the Cs but I'd still like to see more then five fonts when hitting the dropdown.

I typically run the standard version of Notes but every so often I want to get into Notes quickly and I'll launch nlnotes.exe to get the Basic client as it launches so much faster. Today I opened the Basic client hoping to get in to the Designer Client for a quick change to an application and got this message:

This worked fine in 8.0.2 but I guess the overhaul done to the Designer client won't allow this to run on 8.5. Does anyone know if this functionality (launching Basic Designer from a Standard install) is gone for good?