Hey Plastic team,
I have used the new GUI for a session, and I thought I'd share my thoughts:
- Having only a left side-bar instead of tabs is way better, +1
- With the dark theme I have encountered a lot of contrast issues:
(text overdraw, making the background fade like 90% black could solve it)
(View button, gray on the green)
(both links and change highlights)
(dark button on dark background)
(same as before, really tiring to read)
(I... couldn't say what that image is if I didn't stick my face into the screen)
- There were some smaller bugs I won't list here because I'm sure others will do, but there was one breaking bug; this popup popped up, you press OK, and before you could do anything, it pops up again (and again and again, forever; I had to Alt+F4 2 times and restart the app):
- Headers would be much cooler if they also had dark theme:
- I probably can't explain this properly, but I feel your font causes eye strain (especially bold text), they are kinda hard to read. For example, look at "New" here (changelog excerpt):
- And since it's an all new UI and whatnot... I really wished that auto-update was not a 1990-style one anymore (restarting explorer.exe, slow, uninstall-reinstall), but more like GitHub (or, well, any modern SCM client:
- Options of Changes uses totally different tab styles than the App Preferences (former looking great, the second one... not so much):
In general, it's great that you're unifying your client applications, working on a modern dark theme, and asking for feedback before actually releasing it - awesome! However, it still does feel a bit "off" compared to modern apps like GitKraken or GitHub; which are probably partly caused by the aforementioned issues; I hope the full version will introduce a great, consistent UX with proper colors for all windows / tabs