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#124 Buttons look like disabled

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nobody
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2026-03-28
2026-02-17
sf-login
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Hi,
every time I try to select item from recent list and then click "Scan" I think that this button is disabled because of gray color. So I do double click on recent list item.
It will be nice to paint three buttons' labels to black color like labels in recent list or title/subtitle on the left to avoid doubts.
Thank you.

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  • Erwin Bonsma

    Erwin Bonsma - 2026-02-22

    Thanks for the report.

    I agree that the start window is not super-intuitive, as the buttons indeed look quite dark when enabled. However, in disabled state, the buttons look even darker, which you can see after "clearing history".

    I did make some improvements though:

    1. The help button is changed to match Apple's UI guidelines.
    2. The Scan button disappeared all together. It is not needed. All scans can be activated via double-click. This matches the behavior of XCode.
    3. The text "Select Other Folder" has been renamed to "Scan Other Folder". This more clearly indicates that all actions here trigger a scan.

    See attached the resulting UI. Hopefully you'll agree that this improves usability.

     
    • sf-login

      sf-login - 2026-02-24

      Thank you for new design.
      However, I think that general purpose utility should not match guidelines for developers' IDE.
      I will prefer to keep Scan button intact.

       
  • Erwin Bonsma

    Erwin Bonsma - 2026-03-21

    I made some further tweaks. The Scan button is back again, but now as the default button. So it is promimently visible. Furthermore, there's now always a row selected in the history table, so with just arrow keys and return you can initiate a scan. Hopefully you'll like this. It is part of Version 3.6.4 released today.

     
  • sf-login

    sf-login - 2026-03-27

    Wow! It looks nice, thank you!

     
  • Erwin Bonsma

    Erwin Bonsma - 2026-03-28
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Erwin Bonsma

    Erwin Bonsma - 2026-03-28

    Glad to hear you like it. Once again, thanks for the suggestion. It is for a large part the feedback from users that got the app to where it is today.

     

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