If you install the old version from here it won’t try to automatically update to the new UI on restart.
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new UI 100% real terrible
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I have to agree with all the previous comments. The new UI is unusable and the previous version with a hot bar separating concerns clean an nicely was much better with respect to navigation. Please bring back the old UI or, at least, let users decided what UI layout to choose from. Maybe there are users who like the new UI. Anyway I am clearly missing some configuration options.
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Hello everyone, my Lens was also automatically updated to the latest version. The experience has been truly disappointing. I was used to adding clusters using the kubeconfig files and managing them on the hotbar with icons and memorable abbreviations. After being automatically updated to the latest version, it’s been very difficult to manage, and the UI feels cluttered. I hope the developers will bring back the hotbar feature with larger icons
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also the long pause for tooltips is sooooo long it’s annoying
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Thank you all for your valuable feedback! We truly appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken to share your thoughts with us. For your convenience, please refer to our dedicated thread on READ FIRST! Lens (The New UI / UX) Known Issues for the latest updates and resolutions regarding the new UI/UX. Your input helps us make Lens better for everyone!
Thank you for sharing your feedback @fatsolko ! Lens uses a standard tooltip delay of approximately 2 seconds, similar to many other widely-used software applications. However, if there are specific areas in Lens where the tooltip delay feels significantly longer, we’d love to hear about them so we can investigate further.
We appreciate your input and look forward to your response!
in the old version, when I hover over the green square of the container, the tooltip appears quickly, it feels like up to 0.5s and this is very good. In the current version this is unbearably long
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Thanks for sharing. We’ll definitely address this.
Could you post a screen recording of this behavior (maybe as a separate thread here on the forums)? This is not known issue for us.
CTRL+P (cluster search) might help here, did you already try that?
This is not fair to make addicted over years to a nice, simple and convenient UI with somewhat modern design and then release a complete overhaul that looks like an enterprise app from 10 years back.
The UI is just terrible in overall, it doesn’t look like a fancy app anymore, it’s not catchy. I’d guess primarily because of new navigation bar with its complex tree view, and the small font size. The tabs experience is also annoying - I wonder if majority of users really asked for that.
I understand it may sound like regular “oh they changed the app, bring it back”, but the UX changes are just like switching to completely different audience. The functionality looks same to me as before, but there is no joy using it anymore. Like with any enterprise software. It’s sad.
Update: actually I must admit that the workload details view looks better than before.
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Really curious about the reason for the change. When users are accustomed to a certain way of operating, a sudden change in user experience can lead to disastrous results.
Thanks to @a.bauer 's prev version, saved my day!
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The issue is that the legacy UI had excellent discoverability and really helped to mitigate the complexity if Kubernetes. It was useful both for power users and novice developers who need to migrate away from Docker-centric workflows. I can’t advocate for purchasing licenses if I can’t make the novice use case.
The goal of having enhanced discoverability of EKS clusters is valid, but if you could make that work with the legacy UI it would be a huge win. It should be an orthogonal feature that you can toggle in the UI, and there needs to be a UI element that does what the Hotbar did even if you implement it in a different way. Also with regard to larger font support, some people require that for accessibility reasons.
how do i disable auto-update every time i restart the panel ? i don’t want to go to the horrible new UI, i want to work in version 8 ?
That’s horrible, very slowness and it’s a mess when you need to work with multiple clusters at many companies or organizations, it’s hard when you are working with many resources with multi clusters comparing between environments and you have a mess of tabs opened and for that reasong it’s draining your memory, please take back the old version
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It’s hard to say in words how bad is the new version, it is unusable, I have no idea what UI guys were thinking.
I keep hearing things like “we will improve that, work on that feature” There is no such thing, the only possible improvement would be to admit this change was a total failure and revert to the old version.
I actually panicked when I started my upgraded lens after holiday, I practically couldn’t use it at all
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Just reverted to the old version as described here. Thanks @jakolehm for the instructions. Please include changes to keep cluster resources together like this post.
Resources grouped together from many clusters/namespaces only separated by a tab seems too make it very easy to make a critical mistake. I like the tabs and the new look, but this makes it difficult to determine what K8’s resource you are operating on if many tabs are open at the same time. Again really like the tabs, just need to group cluster resources together, I simply do not like the mixing of many different cluster resources. Please create better separation at the cluster level.
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Personally, I reverted to the last version of Lens with the old UI (Lens.2024.11.62028-latest.exe), as the latest version is completely unusable for managing all the clusters I handle.
However, this .exe file now runs as a standalone application instead of an installer. The startup process is slower, and I can no longer find the location of the Lens metrics manifests.
I need to modify the taints and the images or versions, but this seems to no longer be possible.
Am I missing something?
I also would love the hot-bar (or something similar) to come back! New UI is just too painful to navigate many clusters.
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How do we disable the auto-update feature in the old version of Lens (2024.8.291605)?
A few weeks ago, I used Lens without any problems, but now it updates itself during startup, and I have to roll it back each time.
Why is the Lens team forcing us to upgrade? Fix all the UI problems first!