OK that was my other guess. But in the old UI when you focus the text field, it selects all of the text. So you’re just re-typing the full value in both cases? Is it just a matter of seeing what the old value was right when you type? Or do you hit the arrow key to append values?
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Clicking once in the old menu selects the full text, in this case the number, but double clicking focuses the selection to to the right of the decimal. The new UI doesn’t allow that as it overwrites the full text as CSJ clarified.
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this
would be awesome if the old behavior stays, thank you
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Got it! Thanks for the clarifications.
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big fan of this! however, my 2 (or 3) cents:
I liked the old UI so much because it was functionality > looks. This is the opposite, or at least from what I can tell. It feels a lot less “cramped”, which is good for some people, but personally I feel it wastes a lot of space now. You could argue that the old one did that too, as there was a huge empty layout to the right, but that’s not what I meant - the buttons now are way too far apart. Customizable padding would be wonderful.
My second nitpick: verticality. You can’t stack buttons like the old ui anymore. This was super useful for tools you use occasionally, but not a lot - like the Lock tool or Anchor tool. These now, without an option to make them smaller or compacter, are the same size as the other buttons. This not only removes visual distinction between “common” and “less common”, but also takes away space for other buttons you’d use more often.
Also, labels do not use vertical space, either. See: (example buttons, i dont use these a lot)
With labels
Without labels
It’s just so much more compact. I like this a lot more.
With verticality and smaller padding: (I forgot to reduce padding for the Select tool, mb)
So much more compact, and now you have a lot more space for other tools on the right.
These are sort of invalid examples, as it’s only so few tools, but this was night and day for me.
Third: the plugins list. I have a lot of plugins, so this might just be a me-only issue, but this is awful.
You can’t scroll in the list, either, so about half of my plugins are just straight up inaccessible now. Please add back horizontal scrolling, or at least make this dropdown scrollable.
Additionally, toolbar text doesn’t exist anymore.
That’s all the complaints I have. If these were added, I would be quite content with the new UI, but as of right now, it’s a nightmare to use and adapt to. I’ll have to switch back. Thank you for all your work though!
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bumping this but first
hi linux user here
i⠀ know roblox doesnt really focus too much on the linux community because god forbid they spend money and also the “hacking issues”, so ive been using vinegar, but what ive noticed with nextgen is that the tooltips are creating physical windows that dont behave well with my window manager
(or something like a tooltip behaviour option)
^ old version didnt do this, all extra tooltips were kept inside the main window, thats basically my only concern with actual functionality
i⠀ really dont wanna have this forced on me if it doesnt work with my machine, and for me this entire thing just seems like making things worse for the sake of it
adding on to what the person above said
completely agree, this new update seems to serve more aesthetics than functionality, the compressed “suboptions” were super nice because if i needed more niche actions, i wouldnt have to open an entire context menu, every tool was just there, and it didnt take up space
there was a very clear distinction between what was important and what wasnt, but if it wasnt important, it was still there, and thats awesome
now you kinda have to decide on if the action youre doing is common enough to keep it in a whole slot
the padding regardless is a bit too large, for both the main bits of the topbar and the little stuff at the top
every action in the main part of the topbar takes up too much space, id love for it to be customizable
(yes this is left-aligned)
for the little stuff at the top, there is a great distance between the computer icon and the left side of the home page, a lot of my muscle memory comes from the current version of studio, so the fact its a little bit off messes me up still sometimes
also totally agree with the plugins list, i have no clue why you guys removed the horizontal scrollbar, this combined with the tooltip issue i mentioned prior sucks to navigate personally
customization
i think its awesome that you guys are adding functionality to the studio which allows people to customize the topbar to their needs, but it sucks when its not in the areas which people are asking for
the best thing i can wish for is the ability to code your own ui, especially now that its using luau, but i also understand that takes time and effort
i just think some stylization from the user would definitely help the issue of others not liking the ui, because then theyre able to change it if they want to
to me it seems like imposing arbitrary ui tastes onto users, and thats disappointing to see when they liked the old one, obviously tools need to evolve but i dont understand why the frontend has to change along with it
either way…
i like the concepts behind it, i just think there are some things that need fixing, i can tell you guys are hard at work and thats great, but youre giving changes to a community where a large portion of them dont want it
and <you, the op> are taking time to listen to the people and thats awesome, thanks a million its the bare minimum from roblox really, i just have trouble adjusting when “essential” features are missing
thanks a mil
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With this reworked UI are we also gonna get the possibility to make keywords such as “local”, “else” etc. in the script editor not be bold? :o
Where am I complaining in that message? I just asked since they seem to be big on customizability in this new UI…
Is it possible to move the “Home”, “Model” etc. buttons to the left instead of them being in the middle?
right click it and open the editor panel it’s an option on the bottom………
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Cannot stop running the game. This has happened twice. Why?
Edit: looks like I can play in this screenshot, but I literally cant.
Thank you!
But no way to remove the big padding between each button, right?
Why is there no “Manage plugins” and “Plugins folder” in the “Plugins” tab? It was pretty useful.
Now I’m forced to make a custom tab, add those two buttons and then manually add every plugin again.
Found a bug
When I try to add “Save to File” and “Save to File As” to a custom tab, it just doesn’t do anything.
It only happen with those two.
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I guess my next biggest problem is the tooltips. It’s not the end of the world, but they prevent other apps from running optimally while they are shown, since my computer limits their FPS. The tooltips also do not provide me any useful information and so they block content.
Would y’all consider adding a disable tooltips button in the same area where you can hide and show labels? Thanks @MeshOfPaul
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I managed to find and reproduce this issue:
Hover over a button until the hover shows, then move your mouse fast to the minimize button (works too with taskbar but it’s easier to reproduce on purpose with the minimize button)
Make sure to hover over other items too while your mouse is heading to the minimize button, and then minimize the page, reopen it and then when you go to different apps like chrome (without minimizing, just opening the app ontop of roblox studio
) the issue will be present.
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Also I noticed that a lot of things are missing, especially stuff I use a lot like:
- Snap to Parts Toggle
- Show Orientation Indicator in the context menu
Also:
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On the plugin list, if you have a ton of plugins like I used to, there’s no scroll wheel that appears and it just goes off the page, making it impossible to reach some plugins without going through and disabling the others.
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I also noticed that when you playtest and exit the playtest, it resets back to the “Home” tab instead of staying on your custom tab, this isn’t great for me because everything I need is on my custom tab and it’s very annoying to have to switch back to it because I playtest a LOT
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And for a suggestion, I’m thinking a way to maybe hide the existing pre-made tabs using a settings menu maybe if you have like no use for them, even as a scripter I never really use the script tab, and all the features that I did use in there are in the custom tab, so it’d be useful to just hide it to save space.
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40 now wdym you only have to name your posts if you reply to much without others replying noone is gonna read your edits as they already by the newest posts and if you cant handle seing to much spreeded replys just leave then
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I’d rather we make tooltips work well and be useful! We’ve been fiddling with the timing as well as the rendering issues.
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Thanks! I’ll keep sharing these with our engineers.
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