[0.17.9] Upgrade Planner is sparse with visual cues

[Gullyn]

The Upgrade Planner offers no information or visual cues of how it is to be used. Clicking on any box - in the left or right columns - opens a dialog box with a title of "Select upgrade" offering no clue of the intended purpose of the columns. Hovering over the boxes doesn't show any tooltip.

Here are my suggestions: A visual cue (arrow?) between the source/target upgrade columns. A tooltip when hovering over the boxes to indicate their purpose. And a title change for the item selector dialog (ie. "Select current item" vs "Select upgrade").

I understand that 0.17 has a lot of focus on new players and I think this dialog needs some basic visual cues.

Thanks

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[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report but this is already known. The GUI hasn't been worked on as part of the GUI update.

[Gullyn]

I'm glad to hear that you're aware of the issues. But for future reference, how do I determine what I should report? I searched up references to the upgrade planner and saw no mentions specifically about the dialog UI. There are a number of other (relatively minor) UI issues I'd like to raise.

[BlueTemplar]

Probably :
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-282
(EDIT : screenshot was garbled)

[Gullyn]

Where can I find a live version of that graph?

[coderpatsy]

I don't think there is one. Regardless, it's not a bad thing to report what you think is a bug even if it gets moved to not a bug. If I were one of the devs I'd be happy the player base is speaking up at all. I know I find myself not bothering to report bugs with other systems, assuming they're already known/being worked on/not worth reporting/etc.

[Serenity]

Is it planned that we can save different configurations with one planner tool like in the mod?