List of possible UX/UI improvements (StéphaneB)

[pierre-gilles]

Hi @StephaneB

I was waiting for some feedback before making my own so as not to monopolize the discussion, but if no one jumps in, I’ll go ahead

Dashboard

@StephaneB

when a column already contains several modules and you want to add one in second position, it’s a shame to see it added at the very bottom and then see it moved up afterwards

Could this be solved by an easier drag & drop that would « compress » the size of widgets, like we do on mobile for example?

@StephaneB

Either by defining them in my profile, or by reusing the settings of the last added chart.

I see two things:

• First, we could set default settings instead of leaving quite a few parameters « empty »
• Indeed, we could save the last settings of the last chart, that doesn’t bother me!

@StephaneB

In a « scenes » module, I would like to be able to define the display order if I show several, rather than alphabetical order

That’s totally possible!

@StephaneB

It would be practical to be able to filter the dropdown by room, or by device type…

On one hand I agree, but on the other I struggle to see how we can fit that in such little space. If we add a search bar + a filter-by-device-type bar, that adds quite a bit of height

But it’s worth investigating, I agree with the comment!

@StephaneB

• we cannot simply move an entire column. For example move the right one to the center.

Why not!

@StephaneB

This is the case for example when you leave Gladys for a few minutes to other apps and come back: the values or graphs are not up to date, and will only be updated if a new value is received.

I think the opposite: it should be automatic, indeed currently we don’t handle refresh when you come back to the application, and we could handle it fairly easily. I vote for it!

@StephaneB

Or even change more values for an almost regular scale (only x3 or x4): « 30min, 2h, 6h, 24h, 3j, 10j, 30j, 3m, 1a »

Why not, but then we lose the last hour?

I’m really not against changing it but we need to gather the needs of other Gladys users.

Okay to start the debate on a specific topic.

@StephaneB

In a graph, the box that appears when you hover the graph with the mouse is too often placed above the cursor, so you no longer see where the cursor is

Why not change that indeed (as far as possible, we use ApexChart, I don’t know if it’s configurable)

Scenes

@StephaneB

the search starts after the first letter typed and erases the second character when the result arrives…

You’re not the first to complain, I created a GitHub issue, it’s a bug:

Scene: when typing fast on the search bar, the letters are messed up and replaced

@StephaneB

It forces you to copy the title to paste it afterwards, it would be more practical if the title were prefilled with a « copie de [titre de la scène initiale] »

The problem with that is that the title then becomes the « selector » (unique identifier of the scene), and so you’ll end up with scenes called « copie-de-detection-mouvement-entree », instead of the proper name of your scene. Knowing that the selector is immutable.

Afterwards, it’s a choice, we can say we don’t care about the selector, but then it creates little points of frustration, for example if you use the Gladys API to trigger scenes, then to identify your scene you’ll have this title which doesn’t correspond to the current name of your scene.

Now, which point of frustration is stronger?

@StephaneB

when you want to add a step in the middle of a scene, you have to add it at the bottom then move it up. It would be more practical to be able to insert a step.

Why not!

@StephaneB

It would be comfortable to have on the left or right of the scene a ‹ menu › presenting the different steps

As a result, we lose screen width on the scene view which is often already compressed! To be seen, I’d welcome a mockup

Other scenario creation software can be a source of inspiration (eg: Zapier, Apple Shortcuts)

@StephaneB

And it would be practical to be able to give, if desired, a name to each step so that it’s more readable than a simple list of step numbers

I’m afraid that would complicate the scene creation interface a lot, which in my opinion is already complicated…

I’d like you to check if this is something that’s possible in other scenario-creation softwares, and if so how they do it (Apple Shortcuts, Zapier)

@StephaneB

you have to go through all the steps to adjust… the renumbering should ‹ propagate › by itself…

Yes! There’s already a feature request for that I believe (I think it was @lmilcent who created it but I don’t remember). I’d like you to find it and upvote

@StephaneB

I know there’s already a request for evolution, but I’ll still mention this need: the absence of « if… then… else… » forces duplication of many scenes

I know, and I’m the first to find this limitation inconvenient ^^

For now, no one has found a solution.

I’d be keen to know how other scenario-creation softwares do it (Apple Shortcuts, Zapier)

Zigbee2Mqtt

@StephaneB

It would be practical that adding a device displays a window asking me to confirm which indicators I want to log or not

I understand the problem, but I’m not a fan of that solution.

Maybe that view could be simplified so that logging is more visible at a glance?

@StephaneB

the « allow pairing » button is not correctly synchronized with what I see in the Zigbee interface

Indeed, I don’t think the synchronization is done both ways / nor that the current implementation supports the new pairing mode with expiration that appeared in Zigbee2mqtt after Gladys integration