Al_H

As soon as I opened the new version I searched the issue and found your plugin and installed it. It is much appreciated!!! I still think the GUI should make sense from Ultimaker so thought I'd post here as well but am not going to hold my breath for them to make improvements anytime soon.

I just upgraded from 3.x to 4.3 and was sad to see that the GUI got worse in my opinion. I really appreciate Cura, and it's growth as an increasingly useful tool over time, so I am wondering if there are upsides I'm missing when I look at the 4.3 user interface. I am glad I did not uninstall the 3.x version I was using, but it's a shame to give up other improvements to have a user interface that is less awkward to use. I really don't understand the extreme desire in any production product to prioritize form over function, but especially in the maker world. Can someone (anyone) explain the value of wasting space, with an uneasy contrasting purple bar no less, across the whole the top of the screen to accomplish what was done with a convenient drop down before? Or why the slice button can get lost behind a floating sidebar? Or, and probably most annoying, the settings font shrunk despite being able to fewer settings on the screen at any one time. It feels as though the user interface is shifting from a tool to a soft play toy, which is fine if efficiency and usability remains, but the changes feel awkward and not conducive to smooth work flow or user comfort. Thanks for any insight. Thanks!

I'd like to point out that the programs that use the "normal" style of viewing and navigation are the ones we are using in the moments before we need to use Cura and sometimes need to go back and forth between modeling and slicing programs in short intervals but for long periods. It is a pain to go back and forth between viewing modes minute to minute. Training our brains to make the strange switch repeatedly shouldn't necessary to avoid frequent white screens just after a painfully slow loading of Cura or a layer view. Maybe there could be some user options available to help Cura fit in better to the 3d design and print work flow. At least for me, those specific angles are important in Cura too. Why wouldn't Cura be as easy to use alongside the design programs we build our 3d prints in as is humanly possible? Also, very glad to hear layer view should be improving. It is currently unbearable at times and always unpleasant.