Bugs in 4.2.3 related to UI when running on macOS Big Sur

[slipak]

Hi,
I’m running KNIME AP 4.2.3 on the latest macOS Big Sur and noticed some bugs related to UI/visualization:

1. Node recommendations by workflow coach
2. Configuration of mount points in preferences window

I’ve attached GIFs which show these issues.

[stefanomosca]

Me in Node recommendations by workflow coach

[janina]

Hallo @slipak and @stefanomosca,

Thanks for letting us know. We are currently also extensively testing KNIME on the new macOS BigSur and we will try to fix those bugs as soon as possible. I will keep you updated.

Best,
Janina

[stefanomosca]

Thanks a lot. Just for the records ( may be useful for another thread ?)
There are some bug related to integrated version of Chromium (83)… and I can’t set a newer version even Chromium 89 in installed on may Mac.
So Javascript charts renders (Plotly nodes in my workflows ) are really buggy…any suggestion?

[albrecht]

Have you tried switching the browser to render the views to the Internal SWT browser? On Mac it uses the system Safari, so in theory it should work nicely with BigSur as well.

Best regards,
Christian

[stefanomosca]

Hi, yes of course i tried and it works. Thanks. But I can’t select for example a newer version of Chromium in preferences (even for headless browser ).

( and Chromium itself works well )

It should be better use it ( in particular using Plotly Nodes ) because it gives you access to the Plotly Chart Editor usig “Edit Chart Link”.

So you can edit charts very well ( hope in future better PLOTLY implementation… like SAVING CHARTS. ecc… )
Edit chart in SWB browser doesn’t work…
Hope in next release a good way to make rich and editable charts!

[slipak]

@stefanomosca actually this bug of “workflow coach” has been there for some time now. I’ve noticed this bug even on OS Catalina. The only way to get around this is to re-size the panel horizontally (see the first GIF in my original post).

[stefanomosca]

Hi, thanks! I noticed too.
But it’s not only about visualisation … often, when you click on a suggested node, it changes to another!
So actually the workflow coach seems to be not so usable…
We’ll wait for fixing.
Actually the Javascript visualisation for me is far more important…
Any suggestion?

[mlauber71]

There is this current information:

KNIME AP & MacOS Big Sur

This is to our users running KNIME Analytics Platform on Mac: Apple’s latest MacOS version 11.0 “Big Sur” was released mid November and we see slow adoption both externally and internally. We noticed this release brings some changes that are incompatible with Eclipse – the framework that KNIME Analytics Platform is based on. To our knowledge these problems are only visual artifacts in the KNIME UI such as distorted table views in the KNIME editor, for instance in the node repository or the nod…