@jakolehm Basically New UI imho is not that bad, but something should be done with keyboard navigation.
Suggestion:
1)use cmd+w on Mac not to close tabs ,but to close opened resources. Like when you’re browsing pods, opened some couple of pod logs/terminal. Closing them with CMD+W would be much more expected behavior than closing “tab”
2)separate keybinding for opening tab , like CMD+shift+W on Mac.
3)cmd+arrows to navigate between opened resources tabs(like pod logs/shells)
4)cmd+shift+arrows to navigate between top tabs
5)add an ability to open second lens window, to allow user to open other cluster in another window, to not add mess between environments. Use case: devops working with prod and a test environment, IMHO it would be much safer if he would know:here I’m working on a prod, here I’m working with test. It would help to avoid some mistakes that could be done if everything opened in a single window.
You saved my life (and my Lens subscription)!
I agree with you. I still can’t enjoy the new UI!
I agree and we are already working on this while we move Dock out from the main tabs.
Let’s see what we can do here but I agree that there is plenty of room for improvements.
This is on the roadmap but it will take some time before we get there.
Lens new UI is terrible. Why to change something that is already working? Why don’t devs ask users (who are devs too) what they need?
Hello everyone!
I have been reading this thread to check how the community is reacting to this new UI and I want to give my feedback on some of this topics:
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The UI, in general, is barely usable compared to the older one.
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Navigation between cluster was WAY more clear in the older UI using the hotbar. Clicking on the cluster you wanted to manage 1 time, and changing with another click, was simple, but useful. Now you can manage all your clusters from the same view, but it has lost its smoothness and there is a need to remember which color each cluster was. You could call me picky, but I prefer to click 1 time and change my context instead of 2-3 clicks to a small icon or remembering (or checking) colors.
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The general idea of tabs is ok if used with contexts. It is annoying to drill inside a cluster and get drilled out when clicking a tab from another cluster. You also get the cluster list expanded, therefore you have to do more clicks to get back to desired cluster. Just like terminals are attached to the context of a tab, tabs should be attached to a cluster context if you are drilled into it.
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Tooltips appear too slowly compared to old ui.
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The font used for the navigator panel is quite small, but I guess it comes from the new interface of this panel to reduce scrolling.
New release is out with contextual tab filtering and many other improvements / fixes: Lens 2025.2.141554-latest - Release
Preview of the upcoming Hotbar UI (please ignore the flicker, it will be fixed before a release):
Is the cluster under “Local Kubeconfigs”?
Ah, the hotbar feature is still an upcoming feature.
I’ve just tried this version and it’s MUCH better than before! Thank you!
Can’t wait for the version with hotbar.
Hello again!!!
I just want to give a Kudos to the team. That tab-context change made a lot of difference in my day-to-day work!!!
Thanks!!
I’m back again just to say that the UI is still dreadful in March of 2025. Seriously I have never been so angry at a piece of software before in my life.
Why do some actions open new tabs? Why do some actions replace a tab? Why do some actions jump me to an already open tab? Why, when I click a resource, does it change the namespace I have selected!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I HATE THIS SO MUCH
I think the features are fine except the auto open tab is quite messy. I think whether to open a new tab or not should be decided by the user, not the software.
For example, on mac os when I want to open a folder in a new tab, I just right click on that folder and select “Open in new tab”
I updated to the latest version ~1 month ago and really like the drill into feature; this allows the resources to be grouped by cluster vs all together. Took short time to get use to it but really like it now.
This seems to have become the de facto feedback thread for the new UI, so here’s my feedback:
- Scrolling long lists of resources sometimes seems to not want to stay at the very bottom. I scroll and after scrolling stops the view scrolls up about half to 3/4 of an item. This makes interacting with the last list item quite annoying at times.
- When a resource is selected and the details flyout is open, selecting a different resource lacks visual feedback that the flyout has updated. With the old UI in most cases the content was shifting around because at least annotations/labels were practically never the same size on different resources. With the new UI having them collapsed by default there is no longer a shift.
- Tabs are kinda useless and confusing. On more than one occasion have I accidentally been interacting with the wrong namespace because they are not synced across tabs anymore. What I would like to see is the tabs acting to group namespace selections together, instead of being per resource kind.
- Pod logs no longer auto scroll to the latest messages when scrolled to the very end. Multiple times already have I been waiting for some debug messages to show up in response to something I did in my deployed app, only to realize the messages have already been printed, they were just below the current scroll position.
- Before I could switch between pod logs and deployment logs within the same tab. Now pod logs and deployment logs open separate tabs. I can work with that, but it clutters up the terminal tabs. I do however like the ability to select which of the pods from the deployment log will be shown.
EDIT: Forgot one more thing: When editing secrets, the cursor always jumps to the end of the text field after pressing a key. This makes making changes in the middle of a secret basically impossible.
Also, I’m on version 2025.2.141554-latest