All tags should be visible when mousing over hidden tags icon#417

Tags are very useful, yet also not at all useful if they are obscured and can’t be viewed. Which is currently the case when there are more than 2-4 tags assigned to a printer

There is a tag that shows when there are hidden tags, but mousing over it only reveals the obvious, that there are more tags…. yet with no further information.
Ideally the hover over action should pop out a list of every single tag on that printer. This would make much easier at-a-glance to see i.e. which printer a job should be added to. At the moment it requires backing out and going to the list of printers, click on it and looking at its actual parameters. Not intuitive at all

Posted in Discord, copy-pasted here;

I think the reason we haven’t heard this feedback that much before, is because of 2 things;

1. Heavy users of tags often have more than a few printers, and use the “List” view; here tags get much more space
2. Most often, with auto-tagging and auto-filament assigning, etc., a normal “operator” doesn’t often really care that much about what tags the printer has; as long as it has them, if that makes sense: the tags are used for auto-matching with print queue items, which means the tags aren’t really designed all that much for the user, but more so for “the machine”

But, a part of our mission is to accommodate all workflows. We will gently nudge you in a direction that we think you’ll like, but we won’t force you to do things our way: after all, it’s you who is the expert, and us whose job it is to make the best possible software for you - not for us. So we learn, and feedback like this is how we learn.

Let’s let the suggestion accumulate some more upvotes to see who feels the same. I’ve been there myself, frustrated by the very same thing, and I can tell you that if I had a fix and an “easy” (or just medium-hard) way to achieve what you’re asking in HTML and CSS, I’d do it :joy: It’s of course possible - everything is, but we have to weigh time spent vs. what’s gained.

Thanks again for your suggestion - keep em’ coming!

Ok so I couldn’t really let this one go - as mentioned, I have thought about this myself many times before. So I wanted to give it a quick try and see if I could do it in 30 minutes or so, as I got an idea on a possible approach.

Think it worked out pretty well! Going live, probably later today: then let’s just hope other than just you and me too think this a good idea heh