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XD's "Preferences" menu is grayed out. Why not just make it disappear until XD is ready to have a Preferences menu.

It's a bad experience to see something that you can't touch. What a tease! Well, at lease in the case of XD, the grayed out "Preferences" menu is a bad experience.

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  • Jacquie T commented  ·   ·  Report

    figma is so much better than XD - and im a day one XD user. i just got a file from a mac user and my menus are grey with white fading at the edges - that cant be the design! im looking for dark mode, any mode, to change the colour of the ui or something - fairly disheartening.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is absolutely NOT a Mac platform limitation, plenty of Mac apps have no preferences menu item, including some stock Apple ones (stocks, system preferences, etc), and tons of third-party ones (docker desktop, etc).

    Even Adobe's own (now defunct) Flash Player.app bundled with Animate doesn't have a preferences menu.

    So clearly it is possibile to remove this menu item from XD rather than just disabling it.

  • XG commented  ·   ·  Report

    To clarify -- the actual problem here is that XD does not have preferences, in either Windows or Mac.

    The "Apple limitation" stated here means that Apple requires them to have a preferences menu, so Adobe includes the menu option and leaves it greyed out.

    It seems like a bigger UX fail to not have any preferences at all.

    The feature request to add actual Preferences for XD is here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/33361459-preferences

  • Sam commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is so odd that Preferences appear in Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and all of my other Adobe programs. I wonder why Apple only seems to target XD for this feature.

  • Dumi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Apple + Adobe === The Muppet Show

  • Ridin Dinesh commented  ·   ·  Report

    giving me more and more reasons to shift to Figma. Adobe XD keep up your game or you going to lose many.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Makes no sense at all. What makes XD different to all othert Adobe apps?

  • tapps commented  ·   ·  Report

    So are you saying that only PC users can access their preferences in XD, and mac users will never have access to a preferences area because of a mac limitation? That seems strange to me...