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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on May 7, 2025

Option to choose pop-up window placement for optimized experience

I think it would be easier to focus on and work with the GUI if different kinds of menus and clickable links would be at the same place (and stop moving around on screen) even when changing between different "views".

For example, when looking at the volumes on "Volumes" and sub-menu "Volumes", when right-clicking on a volume and choosing the option "Properties", there is a pop-up window presenting the volume properties whith several "sections", for example "Volume Overview", "Copy 0" and "Snapshots". Since all these sections contain different amount of information they are all of different sizes. And since the pop-up windows is centered on the GUI-screen this leads to clickable sections moving around on screen.

When opening the volume-properties dialog, it opens on "Volume Overview" and when clicking on "Copy 0" that "section" is smaller, so in order to click on any other "section" I first need to move the mouse down.
If clicking on "Snapshots" that is a larger "section" so the pop-up window gets bigger and I need to move focus and the mouse up in order to be able to click on any other "section".
It's a lot of moving-the-mouse-around just to view all contents.

I think it would be a more smooth experience if it was possible to choose a TOP-LEFT anchored pop-up window, so when the pop-up windows needs to be larger it can expand to the right and down without influencing the clickable "sections" on this pop-up windows. That means that the pop-up window is not centered on the GUI-screen.

I long for a click-optimized GUI! :-)

Idea priority Low