For anyone who wants this banner gone (Everybody it seems haha), You can block the element with ublock origin or whatever ad blocker youre using.  It gets rid of All banner notifications, but if you're like me, you would rather see nothing than have to deal with seeing Action Center Enabled every month.

Cheers

Blocking it is the only way.  Third party contributions are one of the main things that make Unraid great. They're also responsible for a lot of the inconsistent UI and putting things onto the screen that can't be managed nor controlled by the customer.

 

If I wanted banners (for 10 seconds, 1 second, whatever), I'd enable them. The thought that anyone believes "it's not a big deal" is preposterous. Having to use an ad-blocker to manage the UI is a bit ridiculous.

 

Love Unraid, recommend it always, but the #1 thing it needs right now is a major UI overhaul and strict design guidelines to be followed by all third party sw that taps into it.

 

As far as removing Plugins and Docker tabs (mentioned back in 2022), I'd rather see the CA (Apps) tab removed. When I go to the Docker tab, there can be a place there to browse a docker repo (apps) and only dockers.  When I go to Plugins, there can be a place there to browse a plugins repo.  That makes a lot mroe sense and is much easier to manage (cleanly). I absolutely never use any submenu of the CA tab - and haven't in 6+ years.

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by Espressomatic

4 hours ago, Espressomatic said:

Blocking it is the only way.  Third party contributions are one of the main things that make Unraid great. They're also responsible for a lot of the inconsistent UI and putting things onto the screen that can't be managed nor controlled by the customer.

 

If I wanted banners (for 10 seconds, 1 second, whatever), I'd enable them. The thought that anyone believes "it's not a big deal" is preposterous. Having to use an ad-blocker to manage the UI is a bit ridiculous.

 

Love Unraid, recommend it always, but the #1 thing it needs right now is a major UI overhaul and strict design guidelines to be followed by all third party sw that taps into it.

 

As far as removing Plugins and Docker tabs (mentioned back in 2022), I'd rather see the CA (Apps) tab removed. When I go to the Docker tab, there can be a place there to browse a docker repo (apps) and only dockers.  When I go to Plugins, there can be a place there to browse a plugins repo.  That makes a lot mroe sense and is much easier to manage (cleanly). I absolutely never use any submenu of the CA tab - and haven't in 6+ years.

You can also click the "x" on the banner and it disappears and won't appear again for 90 days unless you clear out your cookies.

4 hours ago, Espressomatic said:

needs right now is a major UI overhaul

Good things coming apparently.  FWIW, Apps did actually have a professional UX guy mock up how it should work.  (As I'm not a UI guy)

3 hours ago, Squid said:

You can also click the "x" on the banner and it disappears and won't appear again for 90 days unless you clear out your cookies.

Good things coming apparently.  FWIW, Apps did actually have a professional UX guy mock up how it should work.  (As I'm not a UI guy)

I do not want to have to click the X every 90 days. I just don’t want the banner at all. Is there a reason why there isn’t a config option to disable it entirely? 

As has been said, there should be development guidelines that prevent this kind of intrusive UI behavior by add-ons in the first place.

1 hour ago, DarkKnight said:

As has been said, there should be development guidelines that prevent this kind of intrusive UI behavior by add-ons in the first place.

Especially considering there's a set of preferences that control notifications. Maybe instead of a banner, a notification conforming to those already able to be controlled, might be more appropriate.

 

Earlier this year it seemed like any day I opened the Unraid UI there was a banner at the top of the screen telling me that an update to Unassigned Devices was available. I already had automatic updates enabled, but whatever the frequency of the updates, they still weren't often nor quick enough to prevent a banner from showing up.

 

Don't get me wrong, it's an annoyance, but I'm not trying to disparage or downplay the usefulness of the tools that pop these up, like CA and UD. They're great. And these annoyances don't come close to degrading the UI to the point where I'd abandon the platform or anything like that. If I wanted a terrible and next-to-unusable UI, I'd hook myself up with a Proxmox-Portainer masochist sandwich.

 

 

Edited July 22, 20241 yr by Espressomatic

This could be significantly improved by changing the wording of the alert.

 

Until I googled and found this thread, I had no idea what "Action Center Enabled" meant.

 

You might consider rewording it to something like "[x] app updates available", or even "[x] apps require your attention".