[v-11] UX issues with modules dropdown

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Version 11 has come with two changes that a lot of users complain about in our company.

Issue 1: Two Click Process to Desk

To get to the desk in the past you just had to click the ERPNext logo in the breadcrumb navigation. Now when you click it a module section opens and you have to move your mouse and click a second time to get to the desk. I don’t think its the best design choice to use a home button with such functionality, maybe right next to it can be a button for this and we can have the home button leading home again?

Current Design:

button

Issue 2: Desk Icons and New Tab

You used to be able to do a right-click and “open in new tab” or do a control + click to open in a new tab. This was used a lot to open tabs to work in. Now this is no longer possible. Again this is a usability problem.

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it’s Nice observation from user point of view.

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I second Issue 1

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Double click to desk?

Edit: we will revert it. Not a good experiment.

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What’s the need of going to Desktop, as we are getting all the modules listed in the dropdown?

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Agree on the revert. The E is actually a breadcrumb item, so turning it into a menu/hamburger thing is out of place. Maybe add a hamburger icon to the left for this. Or a down arrow to the right which can be used to open the menu component.

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let say if we create some custom links (shortcuts to report etc…) those are readily available at desktop.

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Yeah, I realised it immediately after making the comment.

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I think the whole thing is that those features or problems are all counter-intuitive and that is not a good UX design.

Issue 1: Two Click Process to Desk

I like the idea in general that we have the ability to see the modules. This was actually missing before, just the ERPNext Home Button [ E ] is not the logical place for it.

Issue 2: Desk Icons and New Tab

Users can use new tab browser functions everywhere except for the desk now, that’s really not smart.