Issue metadata
Sign in to add a comment
|
The MD bookmark manager has a poor layout and color, which looks uncomfortable
Reported by
kevinshi...@gmail.com,
Aug 6
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/68.0.3440.75 Chrome/68.0.3440.75 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Just open the bookmark manager What is the expected behavior? My eyes don't hurt. What went wrong? The MD bookmark manager is poorly styled and harms eyes. 1. The toolbar uses a *SHIT-BLUE* color which is too bright and distracting, for those who want to FOCUS on managing their bookmarks. This problem also applies to the settings/extensions/history/download pages. The only acceptable one I found is the chrome://flags page. 2. Each item in either left and right columns use up *TOO MUCH* vertical space. As long as the BMM is a tool providing usability, this layout is a horrible drawback. On a 768px-height laptop, I can see 25 items at a time in the legacy BMM; now on a 1080px-height screen, there's only 22 shown - sounds like a joke! 3. On large screens, the margin between the left and right columns is TOO WIDE. This prevents users from interact between folders on the left and links on the right efficiently. Heavy users move links from one folder to another frequently, and now this is unpleasant. 4. URLs don't show on mouse hover, but only on mouse click. This is a reported bug, though currently I can't find its issue number. 5. And some more layout/color issues, for example, the tree indentation... To sum up, when I see the new MD looks, I feel my eyes hurt. Did this work before? Yes Stable 67 Chrome version: 68.0.3440.75 Channel: stable OS Version: 16.04 Xenial Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 30.0 r0 Advises on BMM: 1. bring back the legacy bookmark manager, and make it an option to users, permanently. or: 2. (1) just release the legacy BMM to the webstore, for those who don't feel good with the new MD looks. (2) give us more extension APIs, including "import" and "export" in chrome.bookmarks.*, along with an API to get bookmarks' favicons. (I know how to build something that is pleasant for my eyes, but without necessary platform APIs that can't be done.) Advises on MD: 1. MD is not the silver bullet. They don't fit everywhere. 2. Bad design is worse than no design. SHIT-BLUE is worse than simply white. Also some questions, for personal curiosity: 1. Now that you guys have made so many chrome:// pages MD, when would you apply that to, such as, the devtools? :) 2. What's the cause that you decide to use the SHIT-BLUE?
,
Aug 6
Those match the guidelines of Material Design. As a longtime user of desktop apps, I think MD is terrible on a desktop but I don't see Google/Chromium ever admitting that, their developers seem to like it sincerely. And most people don't care either way. So even though I agree with the criticism, it'll be disregarded as evidenced by dozens of such reports closed with a WontFix status.
,
Aug 6
,
Aug 6
The MD Bookmark MAnager does not even function properly in Chrome 68.0.3440.84 Unable to display all bookmarks in a large collection See screenshot - note whitespace and bookmark count Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Ubuntu 14.04.03 LTS Linux 4.4.0-130-generic x86_64 Acer NV51B laptop w/AMD Dual Core C50 AMD Radeon HD 6250
,
Aug 7
Unable to reproduce the issue on ubuntu 17.10 using chrome latest stable #68.0.3440.84 and latest dev #70.0.3510.2. Attached a screen shot for reference. Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue. ------------ 1. Opened bookmark manager. 2. Did not observe any poor layout or color. reporter@ - Could you please check the issue on latest dev #70.0.3510.2 by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persists or not. Thanks...!!
,
Aug 8
@krajshree@chromium.org Your response is troubling to me on several levels ... First - the Chrome Release Blog https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/ states: Friday, August 3, 2018 The dev channel has been updated to 70.0.3510.0 for Mac & Linux, and 70.0.3510.2 for Windows. So how can I view your assertion as credible - "Unable to reproduce the issue on ubuntu 17.10 using chrome latest stable #68.0.3440.84 and latest dev #70.0.3510.2." ????? Second - my screenshot shows the bookmark manager open to a folder - with a lot of white-space below the last bookmark displayed - and the drop-down display right-clicked on that folder - showing that there are 1304 bookmarks. Your screenshot shows your focus on a drop-down list from what appears to be an NTP - NOT in the bookmark manager tab ... So I don't think you understand my concern at all. Third - if I install the latest Dev release and if the bookmark manager displays everything properly - will we have to wait till the planned release of M70 Stable [estimated mid to late October]? Or would the updated code that remediates the problem hopefully be rolled into a refresh of M68? It seems to me that the Chromium team has been mostly unresponsive or stubbornly resistant to a fair investigation of the concerns that I and many others have regarding the MD bookmark manager. I bisected M67~M68 days ago and there has not been any feedback from the maintainers on the project.
,
Aug 8
I should add - I don't care about the colors your team chose, nor is the vertical spacing much of a concern to me - as these seem to be among the most common complaints voiced by others. I only piled on here because my core concerns have not been properly addressed elsewhere by the Chromium maintainers. I do want to be able to actually manage my bookmarks - and I can't manage them if the bookmark manager doesn't display everything within a folder - a condition that renders that component virtually useless - it's not a bookmark manager if one is unable to manage one's bookmarks. Though I actually haven't coded for some years - I suspect that [if] the display is generated with the assistance of some javascripts - there may be a glitch in how the arrays are handled. I should say that in M68 there is a glitch - the latest M69 Beta doesn't fail to display all of my imported bookmarks - so I'd say we can safely guess that whatever broke the bookmark manager in M68 has been re-mediated in M69. So again - it is my sincere hope that we will see a refresh of M68 - soon - rather than having to wait for the M69 Stable release - to be able to use the bookmark manager.
,
Aug 8
,
Aug 9
The refresh: 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) Revision: 1c32c539ce0065a41cb79da7bfcd2c71af1afe62-refs/branch-heads/3440@{#794} OS: Linux JavaScript: V8 6.8.275.26 Flash: 30.0.0.134 ~google-chrome/PepperFlash/30.0.0.134/libpepflashplayer.so User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36 released Aug 8, does not fix the problem.
,
Sep 6
The release of M69 Stable cured the problem that M68 Stable consistently failed to display all the bookmarks in a large collection [folder]. [I had observed that issue was resolved in M69 Beta and had hoped for a refresh of M68 Stable that included the 'fix' rather than wait till Sept 4]
,
Sep 14
I completely agree. My main complaint is the horrible information density. Even if you Ctrl+minus (changing page zoom level) you still can't get similar density as in the old classic one thanks to the huge amounts of whitespace between each bookmark entry. And of course, the flag to turn off the MD design was finally removed in M69.
,
Nov 16
***UI Mass Triage*** Closing the issue as per c#12, if you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
►
Sign in to add a comment |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Comment 1 by kevinshi...@gmail.com
, Aug 6