Frontend: Please don't prefill new cards in Lovelace's visual card editor

Created on 22 Jul 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: home-assistant/frontend

The request

Everytime I add a new card in Lovelace UI, the card is prefilled with random entities and in case of the entities-card with a useless title "My Title". This is pretty annoying, because I have to remove all this stuff first before I can use the card.
I understand that this is maybe nice for beginners which don't know how editing the UI works. So this behaviour could be connected with advanced mode - if it's off, the cards get prefilled - if it's on, the cards don't get prefilled.

The alternatives

Alternatively only the first time a user adds a new card, the card gets prefilled. But I think that's more complex, because HA would need to set another flag for each user.

Additional information

feature-request

Most helpful comment

We discussed this a bit in chat, think a 'clear' button would make most sense as a compromise on this.

All 4 comments

You can just press the "manual" button at the bottom left if you want an empty config?

Maybe my text wasn't very clear on that, sorry! I don't want an empty card config, but an empty visual editor instead.

We discussed this a bit in chat, think a 'clear' button would make most sense as a compromise on this.

I think that's a good compromise, because it could be useful in other cases, too 馃憤

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