Please bring back the old navigation panel and menus

[DagNygren]

• Using version: 25.5.10 - build 1190

Found a completely new menu layout after the update and think the previous version was miles better. Can we get a choice, please?

Specially missing the "back" and "forward" buttons.

[pbek]

Currently, we are at version 25.9.5. I have no idea how many years old your last version was, so I don't know what you are talking about yet. 😊 I think the layout settings came 7 years ago, that's maybe 800 or 900 releases ago. 😅

[pbek]

I think I created a blog post a few years later: https://www.qownnotes.org/blog/2021-08-25-Use-workspaces-to-manage-different-kayouts-of-the-user-interface.html

[pbek]

Specially missing the "back" and "forward" buttons.

What did those buttons do?
How does your UI look now anyway?

[DagNygren]

Interesting comments. I had the layout shown in most screenshots earlier with icons and arrows for back and forward and so on, but after the latest upgrade I have no icons at all. Only text buttons and nothing like back and forward. Screenshot attached. But nobody would be happier than me if this is just a config issue!

[DagNygren]

Specially missing the "back" and "forward" buttons.

What did those buttons do? How does your UI look now anyway?

They walked around in my note history. I can so the same wilt Alt- and Alt-, but I got used to the arrows on thetop

[pbek]

It doesn't even show any icons for you in the menu bar or the search bar. What build are you using?

Can you please post the output from the debug settings that you can copy when you get to the settings dialog in QOwnNotes and head over to the Debug section of it?

And also, you can configure the menu bar in the settings.

[DagNygren]

This is the build available in the EPEL repo for Almalinux 9.
No icons and they were all there earlier.
Debug info below (with some edits of sensitive info)

QOwnNotes Debug Information

General Info

Current Date: Tue Sep 23 15:40:57 2025
Version: 25.5.10
Build date: May 23 2025
Build number: 1190
Platform: linux (xcb)
Operating System: AlmaLinux 9.6 (Sage Margay)
Build architecture: x86_64
Current architecture: x86_64
Release: Self-build
Qt Version (build): 6.6.2
Qt Version (runtime): 6.6.2
Portable mode: no
Settings path / key: /home/dag/.config/PBE/QOwnNotes.conf
Application database path: /home/dag/.local/share/PBE/QOwnNotes/QOwnNotes.sqlite
Application arguments: /usr/bin/QOwnNotes
Qt Debug: 0
Locale (system): sv_FI
Locale (interface): empty
Primary screen resolution: 1920x1080
Screen resolution(s): 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1920x1080
Icon theme: breeze
Notes in current note folder: 605
Calendar items: 0
Enabled scripts: 0
Database drivers: QSQLITE

Server Info

serverUrl: https://xxx.newtech.fi
appIsValid: yes
notesPathExists: empty
serverVersion: empty
appVersion: empty

Spellchecking

Enabled: true
Selected language: en_US
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Application dictionaries path: /home/dag/.local/share/PBE/QOwnNotes/dicts

Note folders

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Note folder Notes

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isCurrent: yes
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localPath: /home/dag/Notes
remotePath: Notes
cloudConnectionId: 1
isShowSubfolders: yes
isUseGit: no
allowDifferentNoteFileName: yes
activeNoteSubFolder name: empty
database file: /home/dag/Notes/notes.sqlite

Note folder standard

id: 2
isCurrent: no
activeTagId: -2
localPath: /home/dag/ownCloud/Notes
remotePath: Notes
cloudConnectionId: 1
isShowSubfolders: yes
isUseGit: no
allowDifferentNoteFileName: yes
activeNoteSubFolder name: 2021
database file: /home/dag/ownCloud/Notes/notes.sqlite

Note folder Local

id: 3
isCurrent: no
activeTagId: -1
localPath: /home/dag/Notes.backup
remotePath: empty
cloudConnectionId: 1
isShowSubfolders: yes
isUseGit: no
allowDifferentNoteFileName: yes
activeNoteSubFolder name: empty
database file: /home/dag/Notes.backup/notes.sqlite

Cloud connections

Cloud connection Newtech

id: 1
isCurrent: yes
serverUrl: https://xxx.newtech.fi
username: xxxxx
accountId: xxxxx

Enabled scripts

Settings

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NoteFolder-2/NoteTabSubFolderPathDataList (QString):

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System environment

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: unix:path=/run/user/xxxx/bus
DEBUGINFOD_IMA_CERT_PATH: /etc/keys/ima:
DEBUGINFOD_URLS: %{dist_debuginfod_url}
DESKTOP_SESSION: plasmax11
DISPLAY: :1
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GDM_LANG: en_US.UTF-8
GTK2_RC_FILES: /home/dag/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
GTK_RC_FILES: /etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dag/.gtkrc:/home/dag/.config/gtkrc
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__MODULES_LMINIT: module use --append /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles:module use --append /etc/modulefiles:module use --append /usr/share/modulefiles
which_declare: declare -f

[DagNygren]

Started QOwnNotes from the command line and see a bunch of:

Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg (:0, )
Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg (:0, )
Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg (:0, )
Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg (:0, )
Warning: Unable to find dictionary for "sv_FI" in path "/sv_FI" (:0, )
Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg ((null):0, (null))
....

The missing icons?

[pbek]

This is the build available in the EPEL repo for Almalinux 9.

It seems they are 20 releases behind... Maybe try the Flatpak. I don't know if the Fedora releases are working under Alma Linux.

And all the icons are missing for you... Maybe try enabling internalIconTheme in the settings.
This is how it should look like: https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/overview.html

Warning: Could not create pixmap from :/images/search-notes.svg (:0, )

Those are missing too, looks like a build issue.

[DagNygren]

Got back to the site where I had this problem and can report that enabling internalIconTheme made the screen look a lot better

[pbek]

Great 😉

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