I will add another clear disadvantage of Rhino 8 WIP’s UI. I consider it a bug, because it behaves in a highly unwanted fashion. It’s an addition to point number 4 from my original post:
4b. Right-clicking on a blank space of a toolbar to “Add or remove toolbars” will add HIDDEN tabs to the vertical docked toolbars, ultimately forcing the user to unlock the original docked tab, move it towards the viewport and eventually be able to see the hidden new tab consisting another toolbar. Then, the user is forced to detach the tab to separate the newly shown toolbar, and then move the original toolbar to its old place and adjust its shape, because 99% of the time it gets lost.
In Rhino 7, this whole struggle is non-existent, because a right-click on a blank space of any toolbar lets the user hover over the “Show toolbar” pop-up window and then show (or hide) any toolbar from the vertical list. Once that’s done, the newly shown toolbar (or multiple toolbars) appears as a floating window inside the viewport, giving the user a convenient way to choose from 4 options:
- Keep the floating window and use it that way, or move it around the viewport, with the ability to quickly close it when it’s no longer needed;
- Drag the floating window and add it as a tab to an existing floating toolbar;
- Drag the floating window and add it as a tab to an existing docked toolbar;
- Drag the floating window and make it a docked toolbar next to an existing docked toolbar.
I suggest to learn from the great UI of Rhino 7 and keep the things simple, user-friendly and with toolbars taking as fewer pixels as possible.
Bug number 12: Just opened Rhino 8 WIP again, first time since I reported all the bugs and downgrades yesterday in this topic, and there are a whole lot of problems that appear for no reason.
First off, nearly all icons lost their RMB command. Then, every toolbar except for the left one lost their tiny triangle at the bottom right corner that opens the linked toolbars. All the custom macros I had in numerous icons also got lost. That’s on top of the bug with the toolbar arrangement which loses its state upon every start of the program.
Also, the issue with the bad rendering of the edges of polysurfaces reported in this topis is till not resolved in the latest Rhino 8 WIP, despite the claim that this particular bug has been finally fixed. Rhino 7 renders those much better.
Check the last one named RH-66088. Still not fixed: