Mostly amazing updates this week, especially whiteboard creator automation permissions, whiteboard collections and duplicating entity views (relation views next please!)
Except I absolutely hate how every single entity in the sidebar is now required to have an icon. There’s so much more unnecessary visual clutter now!
Like, considering before the update we had no icons in our menu, to wake up to this is crazy:
Can you go back to not showing an icon for an entity, unless it’s explicitly been given one?
Or add a configuration option inside of folders (similar to the field toggles in list views) where you can hide the icon? We have no need to see the database abbreviation 50 times.
Entities always had an icon, but previously it also served as the expand/collapse function (if that was needed) so it’s more the case that this functionality has been separated out.
In the case of your image, the entities in the upper half are basically the same as before (although the previous ‘square dot’ icon is now a db letter icon) and the entities in the lower half have gained a chevron to their left.
Semantics aside, there’s now 2 icons next to entities that used to have 1 and the addition of the new icon is very visually intrusive for us, which is a step backwards in my opinion.
I understand that technically you’ve always used an icon next to an entity, but before it had a functional purpose, either acting as a bullet or expansion indicator.
The arrow icon is functionally unchanged from before, so no complaints there, but the database abbreviation icon provides no functional value (for us) besides making the sidebar feel more cluttered so I really hope we can suppress it somehow.
I think this is a good call. I’ve seen the who double-duty thing really confuse new team members.
However, I agree with @interr0bangr that the DB icon is now just really overwhelming. I actually found the small squares distracting and now this is even worse (in my opinion). I think having the ability to show icon/emoji (if not empty) as well as to turn the DB icon on and off in the configuration is a really good idea.
