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Help, I'm undecided! (Patreon)

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2016-08-31 15:08:41
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Update: A decision has been made.

Thanks to a friendly contributor 1.3.0 will also have layer up/down buttons in the GCODE viewer, in addition to the layer slider you already know.

I've been fixing a bug over the last couple of hours (unrelated to those buttons I might add) and while continuously staring at the GCODE viewer trying to hunt that bug down I started doubting the current order of the two new buttons...

What do you find more intuitive, up = left and down = right or down = left and up = right? Please help me decide via this quick poll :)

PS: As it has been pointed out in the comments by Ryan, naturally the most intuitive layout would be "Up" above "Down", but that sadly takes up way too much vertical space.

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foosel

Sneaking a peek at the current results I'm seriously tempted to just change the wording to "Previous layer" and "Next layer" and have "Previous" on the left and "Next" on the right - judging by your current 53-to-47-percent rating you people appear to be as undecided as me ;)

Brad Jackson

Moving Slider left = moving layers down; Down button should therefore also be on the left. From a UI design perspective, that seems like a 0-brainer! However, since it seems fairly close to 50/50 on the vote, apparently there are some folks using OctoPrint with 0 brains :) So as a compromise, how about adding a Settings radio for "Layer buttons: L/R or R/L"? Then the 0 brains types can select Left=Up, while those of us with > 0 brains can leave it at the sensible and proper default setting of Left=Down :P

Phil Hord

Oh, bother. It's a tie. Maybe you should have included an option to vote for "either way works for me". Also, I think there is some measurable bias towards your example image which has down on the right, though I doubt it would matter enough to seriously break the tie.

foosel
>>2433759

Yeah... good to know though that I'm not the only once undecided here ;) As things stand now, I'll probably just change the wording to "previous" and "next", that makes things pretty obvious. And long term is probably a redesign of the whole stupid viewer UI ;)

VaSh
>>2433685

100% agree. When I first saw the image I felt something was unnatural but i didn't think about it and I began to read... seems obvious now. Left is previous, right is next. But why are they not just top and bottom of the vertical axis?

Robert Klauco

It's actually quite simple. We are writing (in our area) from left to right. Means right side is the adding side. When you have sliders, moving it to right adds, while moving to left subtracts. And that should be the same login with up/down location - when adding layers (up), you should use button on the right-hand side. When subtracting layers, you should use the left-handed one. At least this is what my friends from UX team always told me ;)

Robert Klauco

Seeing the confusion - I would suggest a small redesign - make the slider on the right-hand side (that shows the layers) a bit smaller and below it add 2 small buttons - "+" and "-". And you are done ;)

cavemancamping

Well, since you asked, just to be a PITA, could it be a user pref config item? I am partial to WASD and like to use custom key bindings for some reason .