Disable or move the "templates not listed" notice, or somehow stop the templates from jumping around so much!
This is a minor issue, but one that happens often enough, and is quite irritating. It goes like this:
- I open the Create Features pane.
- I think that I click on the template I need.
- The "Click here to see templates not listed" notice shows up, pushing the entire templates gallery down
- My click is at this point registered, so what I thought was a click on a template invariably ends up being a click on the layer header, not the template
- The layer header collapses the template group
- After the list of templates changes, that notice goes away, shifting everything up
- I think click on the layer header to expand it again
- The "Click here to see templates not listed" notice shows up again, once more shifting everything down
- My click is registered on the template above the layer heading I wanted
The main problem here seems to be that this message goes away and comes back any time the gallery changes, causing the items in the pane to jump around. And for whatever reason, your click only "counts" after the message appears, so if you're a little quick on the draw, you end up clicking the wrong things all the time. And I don't like it when the solution is, essentially, "work slower".
As I said, minor, but seriously annoying.
Suggested solutions:
- Let me check a box that says "don't show this again", or else give me the ability to turn the message off entirely.
- Put the message at the bottom of the pane so that my contents aren't constantly jumping around
- Leave a static space for this message, similarly preventing the contents form shifting
Perhaps this is fixed in Pro 3.x already, but I'm stuck on 2.9.x at the moment. I'd love to hear that this issue is already addressed!
N.B. The example above is the one currently grinding my gears, but it's far from the only one I've encountered. I'm also aware that there's more than a little "Man yells at cloud" about this, but The Cloud™ is the new big thing, right?
Problem:
Because of Pro's design intent to always try to adapt to what you're doing at any given moment, there always seems to be a ton of refreshing & redrawing of UI elements every time I click something. For example, the notice in the image above: "Click here to see templates not listed."
Nine times in ten, I don't want the unlisted templates. That's why I have editing turned off for and/or the visibility currently turned off for the layers they reference. Oftentimes, I'll even type something in that search box to further limit which options come up.
Sure, I can click that little 'X' to make the banner go away.
But every time I collapse or expand an item or generally do anything in that template list, Pro needs to refresh & redraw the whole pane, and the banner comes back, and I have to 'X' it away again.
I just had a case where I was trying to collapse all the groups except the one I was working in and kept accidentally clicking that banner because it would re-appear every time right under my mouse at the top of the pane. Cue frustration spiral that led to me accidentally clicking that banner even more in my grumpy haste, and making myself even more frustrated. Rinse, repeat.
Idea:
For banners like this where there could be understandably very good reasons why you'd want it to be available and/or reminding you, maybe they could be converted to a toggle switch, instead of a dismissable banner?
There's even arguably space for it, where the red mark is on this image:
Barring that, the ability to dismiss these banners with more finality would be definitely welcome.
