[RFC] Modern UI redesign proposal (early beta)

[bastonus]

I am working on a UI redesign to reduce visual clutter and improve mobile usability. The new layout uses tabbed navigation for liturgical categories and a modal for global settings.

This is an early draft. The UI structure is built, but some doesn't work well, and many features disappeared

• Live Preview: modern_propers.html
• Fork: bastonus/jgabc

What was implemented yet:

• support dark/light mode
• 4 tabs that auto select the masses
• settings (many bugs here)
• player for notes

Does this visual direction align with the project?

[bbloomf]

Wow, this really great. I'm not sure whether it aligns with the project, since I haven't been doing much to maintain it recently. I had initially written it as a tool to help out one of my brothers, and then I was singing weekly with a schola at Mass myself, and I really had just made it work for me. Now that there are a bunch of other people using it, I'm not really sure how to know what would please everyone, and at the very least, this is a big change.

Remember too that you're welcome to have your own fork of it if you'd like, or maybe make the old style to be one of the global options?

[bastonus]

I didnt think about my own goal myself, but keeping the old interface in a setting is not that hard. My goal is absolutely to make all features of the old interface enter in a minimalist modern one at today's standards. The goal is also to make a more global application that helps follow mass even if you're not used to reading chant notes. Not only for scholas.

As future features if I have time I would also like to merge your other project compline in the app.

I could make only a fork if my app goes too far away from your first project to keep things clean, but for the moment my goal is only to change the interface not the backend.

For the moment it is not ready to production so I keep on working on my first goal first. It could be only a popup at the beginning of a future update that prompt the user to visit the new interface, and feel free to come back to the old one at any moment ?