Version 21.02 - Known Issues

[Moonlight_Mernher]

I will quote some of my previous posts, with IMHO questionabe design choices, that remain in effect in photon:

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The design of buttons that have a long string of text is simply silly. [image] compared to the old: [image] There is absolutely now way for that UI elemnt to display the whole information. No resizing does that. Not even changing global UI scaling. And sure I KNOW THERE’S “NUMBER OF JUMPS IN THERE” but ffs, then either shorten the name to “jumps” or have the button designed so that IT CAN DISPLAY THAT INFO. You have the space for more lateral pixels.

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Fading of names of columns that are not completely visible is a questionable design choice. If I know that not all the name is visible, the last thing i want is to obstruct the name even more. How is that: [image] superior to that? [image] The same logic applies to the overview window. [image] vs [image] Also, the comact setting of the overview forgoes the critical info of the currently applied preset. [what i mean by that: this is the compact mode in photon for overview: [image] …

^ this one is especially egregious imho.

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Splitting the contacts and places into separate windows is actually sensible. The default keybinding is not. All the main windows used to have alt + wqertyasdfc keybinds. Why make the new keybind “L” All of a sudden? Why not Alt+q? It’s not a matter of “BUT LOCATIONS START WITH L”. Yes, and industry starts with I, yet the alt+s is the keybind, as it makes sense in terms of ergonomics. As a bonus, using a “modified input” as opposed to plain letter, allows to the UI to actually cycle the wind…

[for this one, i have new contacts window bound to alt-q; new locations window bound to alt+e; and “local locations” bound to L.]

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The “assets” window rework is questionable as well. You used to have 6 global tabs: [image] Now, we have 3: [image] With the first one now having an addtional button for filtering all/region/constellation. So, in the old UI, i could’'ve had the “system” tab set to current/my main staging; while the region to something else. Swapping between those tabs would REMEMBER that setting [so i did not need to re-apply the filter for the system/region]: [image] [image] [image] Now that functiona…

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Scanning window ui is terribad. These are the most use buttons any explorer pushes on a constant basis: [image] [the slider and center on my position is mosltly only used for on-grid combat scanning normally alt+scroll does the trick] Anyone that does explo a lot, manually recovers probes. They bug out occassionally and not recover or you get back only some of them otherwise [sudden tidi in a system is keen to make it worse]. map open/close button is handy, as when you stop scanning a syst…

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BTW, I find that switching the position of the “loot all” button to the other side of the window, for no apparent reasons, sums up the Photon UI design strategy perfectly.