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Completely agree, I am not a fan of the new layout. I use this daily for my job and it's so hard to use now. Also, with pinning the layers, if I have to refresh the page all the pins go away. I have to then re-pin everything again. Waste of time.
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@Suty It would be really nice if there was a way to have a "compact" option for the menu. Being able to change font sizes and remove the images for layers to create a text based experience would be incredible.
These menus take up a ton of space on the screen when they swing out, making it really hard to change between layers while also viewing the map (mostly on mobile). Desktop has much more space, but same principle, a lot of screen space is consumed by these large menus compared to a compact text menu.
I know several threads existed where people left the same kind of feedback when this design was rolled out to mobile initially.
Are there any plans to create a more compact layout option? Or is there a more appropriate way to suggest that feedback?
Thank you.
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@Suty
About your new UI, as we say in french "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" which I could translate by "the better is the enemy of good".
The new left menu with these Christmas balls are unreadable. Give me back the icons and the altitude slider ! -
@Suty this is the worst development yet, it sucks balls sorry. The other gripe I have is that the zoom function is now hidden as I choose to view mostly wind an rain along the bottom panel with the ability to zoom in and out as I wish. I can no longer do that as zooming is hidden below the panel. Can I revert to the previous UI which was simple to use and effective?
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@Suty Can we please get back the static altitude slider (desktop)?
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I can only support Demetris comments, I also think those beach balls are a great disadvantage compared to the earlier menus.
(1) The beach balls pop up in a random order and are not anymore ordered like the previous submenus. You could put 3 different items that which would appear when you click "Rain" or " Wind" or "sea temperature" which would pop up when you hit the major icon.
Now, it became difficult to spot even the icons previously activated. As an older person, I (and many others) cannot discern patterns in tiles or beach balls easily and those are much inferiour for easy recognition compared even to alphabetical tables or a restricted number of contatn items with submenues of related items.
(2) The beach balls are a major distraction and luckily do comply to the Windy appearance on the mobile (for lack of space). The color design does not help at all in recognizing anything.
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New menu with icons instead of text is HORRIBLE!!! All the icons looks the same which was not the case with the text menu.
Also where is the altitude slider which I use all the time?
Go back to the previous layout or at least give us an option to do that.
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@wirelessenabled said in Appearance:
Also where is the altitude slider which I use all the time?
The altitude slider is shown by a Plane icon.
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On a small screen (iPad) with the new web UI you need to use it in portrait mode to see all icons.
Otherwise in landscape mode, the icons are NOT displayed with text. They are unreadable and the “Plane” icon is missing
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Some features are nice, joining the menus helps but the new menu and the large horrible confusing colorful icon backgrounds are a waste of space. The grouping of icons are missing, what happend? A minimalistic grouped menu options should be a quick job for you to restore/add for desktop users
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@idefix37 Thank you for reporting this, I already forwarded it to colleagues.
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@rsjorgenamundsen Did you check group of layers, that sort layers in groups based on the topic?
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Hi ! not happy at all with the new version of the desktop ! a computer is not a mobile phone, it is confusing. Please offer the possibility to have the choice at least. Here is a example of how it looks when you have geographics names near by the logos, not clear at all..
Thanks
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@Suty said in Appearance:
@GrigoryA Also, regarding the plugin system, we informed all developers of them 2 months ago about the new implementation.
Dear @Suty,
Thank you, please can I ask for what is meant by "new implementation"?
The reason for asking is that it would be helpful to understand what support we can give Victor to have the plugin made compatible again soon.
Best regards Nigel
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@Suty I'm on it.
People can contribute code, good karma, or money via buymeacoffee.com/vic.b
The later option might yield a faster availability :)
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@ivo
I might start to be repetitive, but:- you decided to destroy perfectly working system just because of what? I perfectly understand devs ego to do "state of the art" things just because they can, but it's kindergarden behaviour. Unfortunately this new UI is the state of the wrong art. Did you do any research beforehand? Did you show your brilliant idea to a single paying user and get anything close to "it's exactly what I dream about!"?
- you are not the first company (and for sure not biggest) who shoot itself in the foot for no reason. But why? why would you do it? Could you control your devs ego a bit?
- it's your problem that plugins are not converted to new UI. On what basis did you decide that 2 months is enough time for plugin maintainers? Do you realize that one or other pluging might be the major reason for user to pay for windy? You could easily postpone this new UI till majority of plugings will be converted... And believe me no one will be missing your new UI even if it will be posponed for 20 years..
What you can (easily) do now:
- revert back to prev version for people who ask for it - all of us?
- make windy-2 and satisfy your devs ego there. You may make separate subscription for it, experiment to any level of madness/excellence there. People will switch to new in no time when new will be at least as useful as old one.
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your Sounding implementation is not as useful as one from plugin. Just have a look side by side and spot the diff. -
What happened to the trajetory plugin? This is why our community subscribed to windy!?
