The new UI is terrible

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#82

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.

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#83

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