Feedback on the floating menus

[dchatel]

Basically, I find it disturbing.

ComfyUI is an app that already deals with nodes represented as boxes that you move around and connect. If the menu becomes floating and/or disconnected like this, it creates more boxes, and now you need to pay some additional attention to discriminate if the box you're looking at is part of the menu or a node.

Sure, it's pretty, but it makes the experience more confusing for me.

I also do not like the login button. I know you have this API stuff going on, but I do not want to use that, and I do not want to be reminded that this option exists. You can have it in the options as usual, but at least give us an option to hide the button.

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[EasyComfyui]

it pretty bad and i had to go back to the old version

[dchatel]

I also just realized something when loading a particular workflow that I had set up such that its main interface use all the available space.

After floating menus, the main interface is obscured by the menus (even panning the workflow down to compensate for the new origin of the canvas).
This shows that, contrary to what they claimed in the commit, this new interface does not increase available space, but decrease it instead.
This is due to the extra padding/margin around the menus. Here a small screenshot when I shaded red a useless part of the new floating menu:

[CCpt5]

Yea, not big on this change. Would take time to get used to.

I mean, what about saving the queue in the event of a crash.....might be better use of time.

[JorgeR81]

This shows that, contrary to what they claimed in the commit, this new interface does not increase available space, but decrease it instead.

This is due to the extra padding/margin around the menus

I wish we had options for smaller padding.

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Maybe even an option to have no gap between the floating panels.

[CoreyCorza]

And the menus still obstruct nodes so what is even the point
Theres just mass amound of dead space that you can't interact with nodes

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[CoreyCorza]

I gave this new change a fair chance but I'm also concluding that I'm not a fan of this change
It just creates all these gaps between panels and makes the graph feel even more visually cluttered

I mean, it looks fine if you've got a template open with 4 nodes
But in a serious workflow with lots of things going on - not good.

[JorgeR81]

And the menus still obstruct nodes so what is even the point

Yeah, they should at least give "semi-transparency" to the areas we can't interact with.

And once you do that, why not add an option for full opacity, so that we can have the Topbar back !

[dchatel]

Here's my idea:

The comfy/run/stop/clear buttons could be about 32 to 48px wide maximum, so a total of 128 to 192px. And the group could be movable and dockable on any border/corner of the screen.
The myworkflow/mysubgraph area doesn't need to be large, just 1.5em max, so it contains the text and a very tiny padding. Custom nodes creators could use that tiny bar to add their own options if they want (like crystools resources monitor).

When opening the comfyui button (the leftmost button)

you get the usual menu, but with the additional "login" option. To be clear, a login button has absolutely NO place anywhere on the main interface as a primary element. It should definitively be moved inside the comfyui menu, if you thought the login options inside the parameters were not enough. And if you really want to bother people with an obvious unmistakable login button, you can have it right in the middle of the screen when you start comfy : "login: yes/no".

When opening the workflow menu:

You have the usual workflow options (save, save as, duplicate workflow, etc...)
then you have a separation line
and after that separation line you have a "opened workflows" dynamic menu similar to what you typically as "opened windows" in the window menu of other applications that can open multiple workspaces at once (eg. photoshop).

[Wprussell]

If we're taking a survey, Mark me down for..

"Startlingly bad".

Cruel_world

[scottmudge]

If they insist on keeping it this way, at least give us the option to disable all API-Node related features/UI elements. Most(?) people aren't ever going to use those, and the 'Login' button is super obtrusive and annoying.

[CoreyCorza]

Its hard to see where nodes end and ui starts now because everything is the same color/shape blending into each other and overlapping on each other, pretty bad design. Its all just visual clutter with no clear visual seperation of elements anymore.

[flynet]

I really don't like such updates, they move settings, every version to new locations. Please STOP doing this !