Apologies, not sure how to properly respond to an old thread. (Maybe that's the idea.) I was looking through the archives before posting some usability comments about the UI and turned up a couple of threads in September.
If we did automatically open the configuration screen when a processor was dropped on the canvas, a quick press of ESC seems to back out nicely. A possible compromise for the processor configuration could be a double-click to open behavior, as it seems this action is not currently assigned. Better yet, a user-configurable double click action (start/stop, configure, data provenance, etc) would be nice. The other enhancements mentioned would be great as well. Rob Moran <[email protected]>SubjectRe: [DISCUSS] Feature proposal: Streamline visual flow designDateThu, 10 Sep 2015 19:09:44 GMT So far there seems to be a couple in agreement to leave the add processor behavior as is. My use of *inconsistency* was referring the simple fact that behavior is different. Add a processor - no dialog; draw a connection - same type of dialog appears to take action. Perhaps we design a more intuitive way to quickly “configure” a connection when drawn. It could be a small in-place editor <http://ui-patterns.com/patterns/InplaceEditor> that appears when the connection is drawn allowing a quick, localized configuration to take place.
