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The height of the lines in the navigator are too tall, 26px for a 9pt font. (This one is non uniform, some times the UI is more compact?) same for Sites, 61px. Repo 101px These changes make working on larger projects tedious by requiring constant scrolling. Back a few versions we had a very twisty-oriented, click-heavy UI. Now we are all in on scrolling. The happy medium is a single-twisty UI where the overview is compact but the drill down is powerful. -- The Find/Replace moved to the left side of the edit window obscuring my code. At least it could share the vertical space with "Save". -- The stage buttons on git-status are not flush to the selections. This has a big impact because this UI is 'compound-action'. First you select all of the commits with the little box, then you unselect some and finally stage them all. To accomplish this the user is moving from button to button. Each move takes time dependent on the button size and distance (Fitt's law). Moving the Stage button to the far right makes the operation take even more time --- For some reason I cannot pinpoint, it's now much harder to notice when files are unstaged versus staged. I find myself trying to type a commit message, only to realize that the files are not staged.
thanks for taking the time to enter this bug, John. Addressing these concerns will probably get distributed into separate bugs. Vertical spacing was not tuned for 0.4. We have some specs from our visual designer but I didn't do any work to follow those blueprints. I'll be tuning layout in 0.5 and will look at the blueprints as well as your feedback. We definitely know that vertical space is at a premium. I've copied the git status comments into bug 349328. Some of what's happened (section commands moving to the right) is in trying to combine section titles with commands (hence left/right). This is good feedback. There is also work planned in bug 339500 and bug 359730
(In reply to comment #0) > The height of the lines in the navigator are too tall, 26px for a 9pt font. > (This one is non uniform, some times the UI is more compact?) > same for Sites, 61px. > Repo 101px > > These changes make working on larger projects tedious by requiring constant > scrolling. How do you find it right now, John? We've made the font a bit smaller, etc. and the chevrons (which were causing extra space) are gone. > > Back a few versions we had a very twisty-oriented, click-heavy UI. Now we are > all in on scrolling. The happy medium is a single-twisty UI where the overview > is compact but the drill down is powerful. > > -- > The Find/Replace moved to the left side of the edit window obscuring my code. > At least it could share the vertical space with "Save". Plugin commands can be added that move across that toolbar (I typically have 2-3 extra commands showing there). The right side is used for other messages (such as "not found.") So I don't see moving it there.... > -- > > The stage buttons on git-status are not flush to the selections. This has a big > impact because this UI is 'compound-action'. First you select all of the > commits with the little box, then you unselect some and finally stage them all. > To accomplish this the user is moving from button to button. Each move takes > time dependent on the button size and distance (Fitt's law). Moving the Stage > button to the far right makes the operation take even more time > --- > For some reason I cannot pinpoint, it's now much harder to notice when files > are unstaged versus staged. I find myself trying to type a commit message, only > to realize that the files are not staged. The new git status page has a different presentation for all of this, and the issues are different, so I think it would be best if you could open new bugs regarding the git status workflow.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > The height of the lines in the navigator are too tall, 26px for a 9pt font. > > (This one is non uniform, some times the UI is more compact?) > > same for Sites, 61px. > > Repo 101px > > > > These changes make working on larger projects tedious by requiring constant > > scrolling. > > How do you find it right now, John? We've made the font a bit smaller, etc. > and the chevrons (which were causing extra space) are gone. Much better thanks!
(In reply to comment #3) > > How do you find it right now, John? We've made the font a bit smaller, etc. > > and the chevrons (which were causing extra space) are gone. > > Much better thanks! I'm going to consider this fixed. I assume you'll have feedback on the new git status page so please open new bugs there.
