Issues with the new Model Picker

[drpetrikov]

Hi, so i have a few small issues with the new model picker;

-The "chips" displaying model capabilities are no longer visible until you click on a model, making finding it harder.

-When you click on a model, the capabilities no longer have a pill background to them, which impacts contrast. This is especially visible on the "Moderate" size class label, where the brownish color has quite poor contrast.

-When the window is at it's smallest size, as in, phone sized, the labels in the bottom selector are quite long

-The "Quantization Parameters" label is a bit too big for it's container

My proposed solutions to those issues are:

-Use a single-column layout for the models, displaying their capability chips/pills at the other (right) side of the row.

-Re-add the pill backgrounds to the capability information row, as they were in the old selector

-Remove unnecessary words from the labels, for example "Create Model" could just be "Create", "Model Manager" "Manage", and so on.

-Remove the word "Parameters"

I can also share a mockup of my proposed fixes soon.

Also, thank you a lot for this app! I really enjoy using it, it's great! If you want to, i could make a nice welcome image for you to use on the blank chat page, instead of the current one which just uses the app icon.

[CodingKoalaGeneral]

ahaha i add on top:
llama3.3 is missing which is ground breaking regarding size

the hotkey ctrl + f for search is currently not supported

😄

model manager icon could be bigger to make ui more obvious for new users

awesome release! thanks for the effort!

[Jeffser]

the category pills were removed from the list of models, they will be back once Gnome 48 is out. That's because I want to make use of this new Adwaita widget

I probably won't be adding back the backgrounds, I'll have to think about it.

[drpetrikov]

The wording could be simpler, as it gets cut off on smaller window sizes. The user is already in the model manager, so i don't think repeating the word model is necessary. I also think that the backgrounds for the pills are necessary, as the contrast on the gray sidebar can get bad depending on the color, plus they added a neat touch of color to the app.

[Jeffser]

Great idea honestly, I'll change it

[drpetrikov]

is there a way to build the app itself without the ollama part? i could try tweaking the ui and sharing it here, i'm not a programmer so sorry if this question sounds dumb :p

[Jeffser]

I'm working on an instance manager that will make it possible for Alpaca to work with other AI providers, even so, Ollama will always be included on Flathub and the default packages for flatpak and snap in the releases page of the repo.

If you want to download Alpaca without the included Ollama instance it's there with the other packages.