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May 14, 2021

P: Docking icons for extension panels, plugins, and the Adobe Plugins panel missing on Windows 10

  • May 14, 2021
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The title pretty much says it all.  Installed 22.4 on Windows 10 today, and all the docking icons for third-party extension panels, plugins, and even Adobe's own Plugins panel are missing.  Totally blank.  The plugins listed inside the Adobe's plugins panel have their corresponding icons, but the docking icons for when these items are in a panel dock are gone.  The docking icon for the Adobe Color Theme's panel is also missing.  There may be others.  I've not checked every Adobe panel.  An icon-less panel dock is not very useful.

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Known Participant
June 7, 2021

is the problem fixed?
Is anyone using

Participant
June 7, 2021

Where have all my icons gone?

Where have all my icons gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all my icons gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all my icons gone?
Adobe updates nicked them every one.
Oh, When will they ever learn?
Oh, When will they ever learn?

With apologies to Pete Seeger

hsawires2
Inspiring
June 7, 2021

same problem here however the mouse tip over the blanked icons shows the extension name and the panel appears and functions normally.

Known Participant
June 6, 2021

This is really important,
I don't do any updates just because there is this error.
I'll see if they fix it in I follow.

Inspiring
June 5, 2021

As a CC and Raya Pro user, this fix cannot come soon enough. I rolled back to get the icons back and will be anxiously awaiting a patch or update.

Known Participant
June 4, 2021

I do understand bugs can happen. However the latest versions of photoshop always had problems. Tools suddenly stopped working in new updates. Basic things you use a lot like healing, liquify and others. Editing in 8 bit was fine but 16 bit wasn't.

What I don't understand is these things are released! These means software isn't tested as it should be. What are beta users for? Seems these  people are not taken seriously. Is there any beta testing?

When a lot of people warn about broken functionality you still have this buggy version "released" and online without warning people! We install the latest version thinking everything will work well but it doesn't. Always I need to do roll backs. When you see 22.4.1 then you think the ".1" is the fix but it isn't.

Don't get me wrong. I love photoshop. It's the best photo editor but if one day other software will have the same possibilities as Photoshop people will switch when this kind of adobe behavior continues. 

 

Inspiring
June 4, 2021

@dramenon, but we don't need a date. We need a fix. I'm a developer myself and usually if something breaks, we just revert the PR that caused the issue. In Ps 22.4 case it should've been done the same day the 22.4 was released and 22.5 should've been introduced which basically should've been the 22.3.1 clone. Legal issues have nothing to do here - PMs f-ed up big time and they don't even try to fix the already 3 weeks ongoing situation. I really don't get it why it takes months (yes, that's not the first time this happens) for Adobe to revert a release.. 

Dramenon
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 4, 2021

As a person that has been on both sides of Forums, I understand the reaction "Seems like nothing is happening and Adobe doesn't give a ..."

Would it be helpful to understand the update process? Not sure that it would be meaningful and/or might be more frustrating to hear of all the engineering checkpoints. 

The individuals you interact with on the forums

cannot state,

without a potential legal penalty,

when a fix will be released. 

AxelMatt
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 4, 2021

@dramenon

If you have a fix for this issue the relaese it as soon as possible. Why you'll wait for a future update? The forums are full with angry and frustrated user. They paid their good money and got a update that's buggy.

I'm a ACP (Adobe Community Professional) and get tired of reassuring users in the Adobe Community Forum and explaining that Adobe is working on a fix. Often, ACPs are associated with Adobe and viewed as an employee of Adobe.

Mistakes can happen, but then you should fix them immediately. Adobe should show that they take their users seriously and respect them.    

BR Axel

Adobe Community Professional

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo
CarlosBlue
Participating Frequently
June 4, 2021

In conclusion: Adobe Photoshop is no longer a smart choice for amateur and professional photographers! Bye-Bye Adobe! Hello Affinity, DxO, Skylum, InPixio, TopazLabs!