Tschens Posted March 22, 2021 Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 To be honest, the all-in-white layout hurts my eyes. PLEASE give us back the grey background in the thumbnail area. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted March 22, 2021 Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 Please: an option to set the color of the background and the size of the letters and spaces between the tags etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 22, 2021 Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 13 hours ago, Tschens said: the all-in-white layout hurts my eyes. Is it this what the Daminion team calls "A brand new interface of Daminion desktop client."? This is anachronistic: On all other platforms user interfaces are moving to or at least offer an option for a dark mode, but Daminion goes the opposite direction and calls it "brand new". I cannot believe it. For me a good reason for not moving to version 7! 😡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Hello, I do not know if I can still make settings somewhere. If not: what a waste of screen space. The ratio between the size of the thumbnail field, the photo and the font does not fit at all. Regards, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Unfortunately, my maintenance period expired just three days ago 😞 , so I cannot install the test version and won't extend the maintenance unless I see reasonable improvements. In Daminion's page on Facebook, I found a screenshot of the brand new interface. Besides, the terrible white background, some typos in field labels ("Dimention", "Geo Tagget"), the four parts of the Place tag using more space and some changed icons, I cannot recognize big changes or improvements. Can anybody tell me more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l.miklos Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 WilfriedB: "Can anybody tell me more?" The "Tray" name changed to "Favorites" 🙂  Miklos  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 39 minutes ago, l.miklos said: The "Tray" name changed to "Favorites" Thanks Miklos 🙂 I would very be happy, if there were a keyboard shortcut to show/hide the Tray/Favorites, but changing the title might only create confusion for experienced users, while it doesn't improve learning for new users (my opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l.miklos Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 I think, these are only cosmetic changes, not "brand new interface"  Miklos  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tschens Posted March 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 There is no improvement at all. Waste of space, terrible layout etc etc. Obviously, the programmers spent a lot of time for worsening the interface. On the other hand, they ignore several bugs I sent them already 2 years ago which could be fixed very easily within a few minutes by a medium skilled programmer. Shame on you! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalain Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Tschens said: There is no improvement at all. Waste of space, terrible layout etc etc. Obviously, the programmers spent a lot of time for worsening the interface. On the other hand, they ignore several bugs I sent them already 2 years ago which could be fixed very easily within a few minutes by a medium skilled programmer. Shame on you! This is why I stayed with 6.4.0.2120, after this version waste screen space started. Looks like (through screen copy) this V7 is worst. I'm happy with my old version ;-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 Hi, I made some screenshots to show, how different programs show the same amount of 6 thumbnails on the screen. I have a Nvidia GTX1050Ti and the Monitor is a Quato262 Excel (1920x1200). The programs are: Daminion 2416, Adobe Bridge CS6, XnViewMP, digiKam 7.2.0-rc, Metadata++ All TIFF photos are the same used in a photobook. One screenshot shows how Daminion 2416 looks on the Lenovo laptop, AMD Radeon RX640 1920x1080 Regards, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 On 3/23/2021 at 11:27 AM, Uwe said: I do not know if I can still make settings somewhere. If not: what a waste of screen space. The ratio between the size of the thumbnail field, the photo and the font does not fit at all. Hey Uwe. Thanks for the feedback! We will add some changes to avoid impacting to thumbnail size when adding new fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 1 minute ago, Murat said: We will add some changes to avoid impacting to thumbnail size when adding new fields. Murat, how about the anachronistic white background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 1 minute ago, WilfriedB said: Murat, how about the anachronistic white background? Hey Wilfried, I appreciate your feedback! We will consider adding an option to switch background of the thumbnail area to grey. But only in 7.1 or 7.2 version. The release of the 7.0 version is scheduled for early April - we will not have time to make changes by this time.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 3 minutes ago, Murat said: We will consider adding an option to switch background of the thumbnail area to grey. Thanks a lot Murat, but I not only meant the background of the thumbnails, but the entire window instead. Compared to many other applications it just looks 'old fashioned' and hurts the eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 11 minutes ago, WilfriedB said: Thanks a lot Murat, but I not only meant the background of the thumbnails, but the entire window instead. Compared to many other applications it just looks 'old fashioned' and hurts the eyes. Unfortunately, the UI technology that we use allows changing the appearance of any controls except scrollbars. We tried to hack it since Daminion 1.0, but there is no way for this. Therefore we decided to "grey" UI partially ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tschens Posted March 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 Fyi: I am now back at Version 6.8. This was possible without restoring the database. Just install the older Version over the never one and you are fine. I am just wondering if Daminion has beta-testers an if yes, what are they doing? Did really nobody among them comment on the new GUI? Furthermore, why do you post downloads for the beta versions here if it is not possible to react on our feedback? Murat, don't get me/us wrong, we want to help, not complain.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 3 hours ago, Tschens said: This was possible without resoring the database Good to know, thanks Jens! 3 hours ago, Tschens said: if Daminion has beta-testers My understanding: We, the user of this forum are the beta testers, whenever the developers offer us a test build, but I don't know, how much testing of the GUI with independent users is done before that ... 3 hours ago, Tschens said: why do you post downloads for the beta versions here if it is not possible to react on our feedback? Good point! Maybe usability testing does not have high priority ... ? It would confirm the impression I got more and more over time because of inconsistent or incomplete functions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 7 hours ago, Tschens said: I am just wondering if Daminion has beta-testers an if yes, what are they doing? Did really nobody among them comment on the new GUI? Furthermore, why do you post downloads for the beta versions here if it is not possible to react on our feedback? Murat, don't get me/us wrong, we want to help, not complain.  Tschens, I appreciate your input and your feedback! We have internal testing team but they are happy with the new GUI yet  😀 We take into account all user feedbacks but it is not possible to implement all of them or implement them ASAP. If we don't react to a comment here it doesn't mean that we don't read it or don't discuss about it internally. > On the other hand, they ignore several bugs I sent them already 2 years ago which could be fixed very easily within a few minutes by a medium skilled programmer. May I ask you to send a brief info about them to support at daminion.net please. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted March 25, 2021 Report Share Posted March 25, 2021 Hi, For me as a user it would have been better you would have invested more time in developing the existing software. An example: I am using the server version. I want to use OpenStreetmap. But this is only possible in the web client. But linking and grouping do not work with the web client. So I can't take advantage of all the possibilities that the software can actually do. I think a homogenization would have been more urgent than a "new" GUI. Erwin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 Hello, if the "Dark mode" is selected the contrast between the selected thumbnail(s) and all others is low. Regards, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tschens Posted April 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2021 A screenshot from the dark mode would be nice. Just to avoid another install/uninstall procedure. Thx in advance, Tschens 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilfriedB Posted April 9, 2021 Report Share Posted April 9, 2021 On 3/24/2021 at 7:17 PM, Murat said: We have internal testing team but they are happy with the new GUI Murat, just for clarification: I have no doubt, you do a lot of testing before providing an external test version here in the forum. I am also sure, this includes testing the GUI in the sense that it cannot produce crashes and does work as designed. But I am wondering since quite some time, how much you did and do invest in usability studies to verify the design? I could make a long list of inconsistent or inconvenient behaviors of the user interface, but to be honest, I gave up to report those, because I came to the impression, nobody cares about it or doesn't have enough resources to do more on it (which is understandable). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted April 9, 2021 Report Share Posted April 9, 2021 Hi, I'll wait until the license expires and then get the last version. I will then test them and verify whether I change or not. At the moment I'm on 6.8.0.2380 Server and I'm staying there. Wilfried wrote: "I could make a long list of inconsistent or inconvenient behaviors of the user interface, but to be honest, I gave up to report those, because I came to the impression, nobody cares about it or doesn't have enough resources to do more on it (which is understandable). " and I can only sign that. See also my post from March 25th. Maybe some things will improve, at least I hope so. Erwin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalain Posted May 31, 2022 Report Share Posted May 31, 2022 Hi, Sorry to insist but I sometimes try latest Daminion version, by curiosity and if GUI has improved or not. Well here is some comparisons about V6.4 (best User interface IMHO) and latest V7.6 I hope that next versions will waste less space between lines, icons, texts, buttons and so on to give back a better GUI as it was in V6.4. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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