Betaflight-configurator: Usability of the new custom logo feature

Created on 10 Mar 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: betaflight/betaflight-configurator

Some users have sent me their interest for the new feature of this PR https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/pull/935

But after that, they tried to use it and they have a lot of problems. They have sent me a message with the problems found, so I left them here to see if they can be addressed:

  • The first problem is that the messages of the console are ok, but depending on the resolution, size of the window, etc. they are hide under the font manager window:
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  • So the user upload a custom logo, press the button and... nothing happens. A more visible error must appear (new window with the error, a message in the actual window... I don't know).
  • In the image there's a ? but does nothing. The users need some instructions about size of the image, color palette, etc. There are two options: make the ? functional with instructions, or I can see a lot of space in the right of the logo. Maybe a text can be put here and left the logo in the left.

@atomgomba can you verify these comments and if you have time try to address them? As I say, it seems that the feature has taken interest.

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The font management dialog indeed hides the log messages, good point! I'm not familiar with UI concepts here, for eg. I haven't seen a message dialog in the Configurator so far IIRC. Due to lack of established practices (meaning dialog windows aren't common either, probably the Font Manager is the only one), I'm a little bit in doubt about how to display an error message properly in this case. I have to come up with something new that won't stand out too much to break the UX of the current UI. The way of informing the user when a dialog is open is to be decided.

Regarding the ? icon, I can imagine it broke somehow due to changes in CSS styling. Definitely will have a look into that. Thank you for the feedback, @McGiverGim!

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The font management dialog indeed hides the log messages, good point! I'm not familiar with UI concepts here, for eg. I haven't seen a message dialog in the Configurator so far IIRC. Due to lack of established practices (meaning dialog windows aren't common either, probably the Font Manager is the only one), I'm a little bit in doubt about how to display an error message properly in this case. I have to come up with something new that won't stand out too much to break the UX of the current UI. The way of informing the user when a dialog is open is to be decided.

Regarding the ? icon, I can imagine it broke somehow due to changes in CSS styling. Definitely will have a look into that. Thank you for the feedback, @McGiverGim!

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This was fixed some time ago, I close this.

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