About the new web based controller

[DavidHB]

(23-04-2020 00:47)Alandbush Wrote:  A number of people have expressed an opinion that the user interface is dated and that it should be improved/modernised/etc. No argument, but there have been no suggestions as to what would be acceptable. It seems like we may end up in a ‘don’t like the GUI, try again’ loop.

I'd go a step further than this. I'd say that any discussion has to be about functionality, not pretty colours and so-called design values (which are one of those things on which, for every two 'experts', we get three opinions). This is an interface that we shall use on setup and then maybe not return to for months or years. It will be a beautiful interface if it enables the user to know both its purpose and how to use it as soon as he or she accesses it. Have I a problem with the fact that it is in black and white and text-based? Not in the slightest.

Thinking ahead to the point at which all the properties settings are available in the interface, I think that it would be most useful if each property had a help icon, which accessed a short piece of text explaining the usage and perhaps giving an example, something that might allow the occasional user to set the property without having to read the help files in detail. I think that would make text settings (which I guess will continue to be needed for many MinimServer properties) easier to use.

David