Any way to disable the menu animations? Grasshopper 1 UX is great because its simple and straight forward. All the flashes and pops probably is good for a beginner that needs the extra stimulation, but for us that needs to work on complex graphs, we don’t need the UX to look like some tiktok app.
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Which menu animations specifically?
Morning David,
- The Hover “swipe” animation over adjacent menus on top
- The “blink” animation when nodes are connected
Trying to achieve distraction-free UI, especially on windows 11 nowadays with ads and notifications, etc.
On another note:
Can the ruler marks be added back to number sliders? It gives a visual cue for adjustments despite how arbitrary it may seem.
Thank you
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I agree. It would be great to have an option to turn #1 and #2 off. In my case, the “swipe” menu unrolling also seems inconsistent - sometimes I get a cascade radiating from the mouse, sometimes the whole menu’s worth of icons appears at once.
(I guess the difference is due to hovering the mouse over the canvas OR clicking on another menu tab, but I’d prefer to avoid a speedbump manifesting because of any of those choices.)
If I could vote, I like to avoid anything in the UI that delays the updating of information.
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Ah, I misunderstood “menu” in that case. I can absolutely add options to adjust the timing on those, or indeed switch them off entirely. Haven’t really started with settings yet as it is not at all clear which of these things will survive to the beta phase. I thought the tab-panel-hover-preview would be handy, but I get annoyed by it occasionally as well. However it does allow you to more quickly search for a component without the need to click or change the state of the UI. So it’s not a useless animation.
The animation at the start of the ‘preview mode’ begins as soon as the mouse moves over any unselected tab, and it rolls back when the mouse re-enters the currently selected tab or if it leaves the tab area altogether. During this mode the faded preview switches immediately depending on the tab the mouse is currently over.
It actually runs when the current position of the mouse would result in a connection being made if you were to let go here. There’s no animation for the actual connection, because there’s already a visual clue for the connection being made which is the change in wire line style.
But sure, I understand you might not want to see this stuff. Any fluff like this which manages to survive into 2.0-Beta will need to become part of options/settings. And even though there’s no UI for this yet, I have been trying to make sure that it’s all in principle user-configurable.
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