New UI error

[Archaniel]

Hi gusy, I just tried the new UI beta and I must really say two things:
* wow, new design
* oh crap UX :(
* sooo many "details"

just a quick example the screenshot:

* What am I waiting for ... exactly?
* What is the system doing?
* What is the progress on it?
* What is the purpose of "Previous" and "Next" buttons? Haven't tried it, got scared.
* What is the jail_zfs_dataset for example? Why you didn't do a label, with a nice (i) tooltip explaining the functionality
* Why there is no padding, nor any UX hint that you can actually overwrite that jail_zfs_dataset etc
* What's the point of the icon in jails, which when you hover over just to get the simple PLUS button to add a jail? REALLY?

It's just one screen I was going over and I was in shock. There's no logic and seems like the designers are pure devs without any sense of UI design nor UX - that's BAD. If you are making something new, please make it properly :(

PS: While I was writing this, I'm still in "please wait" state ... no idea what for

 

[Ericloewe]

Are you using 11.1? The new GUI is horribly broken there, all the work is taking place in the nightlies.

 

[Archaniel]

yeh, am on stable branch as my only freenas is a "production" one... I really doubt though that my points will be polished. For that I guess the UI development has progressed too far :/
Question is: is there any "suggestions" forum or somewhere where the aforementioned points could be discussed? Or is the development open for community aswell?

 

[Ericloewe]

Question is: is there any "suggestions" forum

Yes, of course: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-gui-suggestions-and-discussion-thread.58815/

I really doubt though that my points will be polished. For that I guess the UI development has progressed too far

Most of them were fixed a long time ago in the nightlies, IIRC. The new GUI in 11.1 hasn't been updated in any of the 11.1-Ux releases.

 

[Archaniel]

thanks for the link, gonna write my ranting with ideas there :)
Btw: is there any particular reason why not ship the beta-gui part in each stable iteration with at-that-time nightly gui?

 

[Ericloewe]

Yes, the nightlies branch is significantly different and the GUI relies heavily on the middleware, which is being developed in tandem with it. It's not just a matter of throwing in a few isolated changes.