Re: Should FlightGear redesign its UI for Next?

Thanks, James. I'm withholding my work for now. I have an idea: since Next
is still undergoing development, I'll continue to spot pain points and fix
them. And after the current Next becomes stable with in-sim redesign using
Canvas, can we redesign the UI of Launcher, since there aren't any other UI
overhauls competing for resources or attention?

Vào Thứ 4, 5 thg 8, 2026 vào lúc 14:45 James Turner <[email protected]>
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> On 5 Aug 2026, at 04:58, Philips Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The objective is not to eliminate any existing functionality or create a
> new backend for the launcher but rather to make the visual appearance and
> usability better.
>
> What do you think is confusing, old-fashioned, inefficient, or hard to use
> in the existing version of the launcher?
>
> Would a redesign of the launcher be beneficial for Next?
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> In general, next is getting a complete redesign of the in-sim UI using
> Canvas: we have done most of the backend work, and will increasingly be
> working on redesigning the visible dialogs (especially related to settings:
> ) . Because of this rather large, high impact upheaval, I’d prefer to leave
> the launcher alone on next.
>
> That said, we are doing some re-work to fix some pain points around
> aircraft filtering / sorting / searching, right now: Richard did some
> prototyping, and I’m carrying on with the pieces for that. These changes
> are intended to be back-ported once the visual design is settled. (They
> will also add user-ratings to the launcher, again to try and improve the
> aircraft install experience)
>
> For any *specific* usability tweak, we can consider it : especially
> improving key navigation or accessibility would be great. Obviously we
> wouldn’t do a major visual re-design on stable though.
>
> As Isreal said, it would be good to start from some concrete pain points,
> before getting into the visual design territory : that’s exactly what
> motivated the current sorting / filtering UI redesign.
>
> Kind regards,
> James
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Philips Nguyen

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