GalMap Bookmarks cannot be deleted....

SpaceTrash67 · May 20, 2021

Theres an icon to ADD a bookmark to a system....I'll be damned if I can find a way to DELETE it....So I have all these systems BM for a sector survey - and my 100 Bookmarks are used up - and now I can't (easily) delete them ("Go to Bookmark Manager" is a non-answer thank you very much)

<Edit: Attach YouTube Video of current 'best practice'>

Also filed an Issue Tracker:
Issue Tracker: Deleting GalMap Bookmarks cumbersome

Vikestart · May 20, 2021

I believe you have to delete them via the Bookmarks menu (upper icon the left side).

IMO they should just turn that 'Add' button into a toggle, making it add or remove an entity as a bookmark depending on whether it's already a bookmark or not.

SpaceTrash67 · May 20, 2021

I'm all ears (and eyes): please show via screenshots....Nothing there

Vikestart · May 20, 2021

SpaceTrash67 said:
I'm all ears (and eyes): please show via screenshots....Nothing there

Ydiss · May 20, 2021

Yup, this isn't an issue. Still not being able to plot directly to a bookmark is though. Can plot to the system but not the actual location.

I love the new galmap personally, I just hope they add this as soon as possible because it's a big ommission for me.

SpaceTrash67 · May 20, 2021

This is ridiculous - it would be like saying on your mobile device: to edit a phone number - reboot - enter your mothers' maiden name - derive the square root of pi....

This used to take TWO (2) clicks: 1 - select star / 2 - select DELETE....

It now takes FIVE clicks - as well as a good scroll to find what system you are in ...

SpaceTrash67 · May 20, 2021

PS - If you choose the "Copy system name" on the lower right - counting the 'Paste' command - it's EIGHT (8) steps to delete a Bookmark....

Asphe · May 20, 2021

Ydiss said:
Yup, this isn't an issue. Still not being able to plot directly to a bookmark is though. Can plot to the system but not the actual location.

I love the new galmap personally, I just hope they add this as soon as possible because it's a big ommission for me.

Yeah, I can see where they are going with this and it will be great one day. Unfortunately all the booksmarks in 'Station'/etc... next to useless? I'm sure it's a bug they'll get to one day.

I'd like to see Custom Categories in Manage Bookmarks too. Or even just a 'SHOW ALL' settings.

SpaceTrash67 · May 20, 2021

I fired up Horizons this morning instead - what is so difficult about adding in the “Delete Bookmark” along the right edge of the GalMap??

I’d say this is the “poster-child” of glaring UI issues that people have been having throughout...I like - and look forward to any graphical updates over the existing Horizons one - but what Odyssey has given us is “Form over function”...and it impacts the player experience...

SpaceTrash67 · May 23, 2021

Just added a brief video of how the current 'best practice' for deleting a bookmark from the GalMap works in Odyssey...This takes @ 5 seconds in Horizons:

Also filed an Issue Tracker:
Issue Tracker: Deleting GalMap Bookmarks cumbersome

Evoflash · May 24, 2021

THIS IS PANTS FDEV. PANTS.

WHY?

Bigmaec · May 24, 2021

Oh look, a galmap issue

SpaceTrash67 · May 24, 2021

Bigmaec said:
Oh look, a galmap issue

Do I like everything in the new GalMap UI? No. Do I give FDev creative license to "spruce things up" - sure....(The Station services interfaces in Horizons ARE dated looking...Clunky - but functional...)

There were other UI functionality issues 'discovered' during the Alpha...and those were fixed...This is just a "one-way, dead-end street" oversight on the UI - and needs fixing....full stop.

Bigmaec · May 24, 2021

SpaceTrash67 said:
Do I like everything in the new GalMap UI? No. Do I give FDev creative license to "spruce things up" - sure....(The Station services interfaces in Horizons ARE dated looking...Clunky - but functional...)

There were other UI functionality issues 'discovered' during the Alpha...and those were fixed...This is just a "one-way, dead-end street" oversight on the UI - and needs fixing....full stop.

Yes of course. I'm ridiculing FD for every bug and worse UI they put into everything. It's amazing, there are so many things worse, it's like they did this by design.

Cmdr BrinBrown · Dec 21, 2022

I have read the above.

I still cannot delete bookmarks

BB

martin77 · Dec 22, 2022

SpaceTrash67 said:
I fired up Horizons this morning instead - what is so difficult about adding in the “Delete Bookmark” along the right edge of the GalMap??

I’d say this is the “poster-child” of glaring UI issues that people have been having throughout...I like - and look forward to any graphical updates over the existing Horizons one - but what Odyssey has given us is “Form over function”...and it impacts the player experience...

it is exactly this!

if you click on a system with a bookmark on it, the "+" icon on the flag symbol on the right edge change to an "-" icon and you can simply delete it.

BUT

if you added the bookmark in the system map (for a planet) then you must go to the system map and click on the "-" flag there.

varonica · Dec 22, 2022

Cmdr BrinBrown said:
I have read the above.

I still cannot delete bookmarks
BB

This thread is well over a year old, if you are having an issue it's not the same as the OP because it works exactly as described......for NORMAL bookmarks. When you click on a bookmarked item the bookmark icon turns into a minus sign and deleted the bookmark. As martin77 points out, you can't delete planet or station bookmarks from the galmap, you must do it from the system map. On the other hand Squadron bookmarks must be deleted using the "manage bookmarks" function, they will seem to vanish using the right menu but will re-appear on closing and re-opening the galmap. So it's likely your issue is one of these two and nothing to do with the OP.