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The new scanning map is not an improvement on the old map, but many steps backwards. I've been saying the same things about the new map for over a year but have seen little to no improvements. First and foremost, the new scanning interface is significantly less useful for combat scanning than the old map. All of the feedback I've seen for the new scanning map so far seems to be written by people who do not do combat scanning but who casually scan a few data/relic sites here and there, and sure, the new scanning interface is fine for that. But for any type of intensive scanning, no, the new scanning interface is a waste of resources and multiple steps backwards from the old scanning map. Some reasons include:

1) The old scanning interface gave different icons for different signatures on the map. Different types of structures had different icons on the solar system, making it very easy to tell what was a player ship, what was a research lab, what was a POS gun, and what was a drone. The new map completely loses that functionality and instead displays all signatures—from cosmic sigs to player ships to structures to drones—with green dots, making it much harder to quickly sort through a cluster of signatures. (The one thing here I do appreciate is that in long lists of signatures in a cluster the new solar system map gives you a sidebar for scrolling through the list—this should be implemented to the old map.) The old map also had a way of “Stacking” a cluster of signatures in such a way that it was easy to tell what was a cluster of a dozen signatures (e.g. ships or structures) versus what was a single entity. On the new map we just see green dots that communicate no useful information unless we hover over them one by one.

2) Lag. The new scanning map is significantly more laggy and less responsive than the old solar system map. This is a huge issue both for people who run EVE on older computers as well as for combat scanning where time counts for everything. The lag kicks in especially when you pan or move the camera around to see different angles, which is something you do very quickly when combat scanning and the new map doesn't seem to like fast movements.

3) The font on the scanning window is significantly harder for me to read than the old scanning window, especially when there are dozens of signatures. The white font on green background on the past window is easier to quickly read than the white font on black that

4) Lots of people have points this out, but the scanning and dscan windows lack the same transparency levels that other windows have in EVE. They are much darker and less transparent.

5) Moving the probes is now more difficult. I don't really know why, but it seems as if icons on the map get in the way of the probe movement arrows more than on the old map. This is also an issue of lag and responsiveness it seems.

Try scanning a Superior Sleeper Cache in a Stratios - even with Sisters Core Probe Launcher/Probes and all of the scanning array midslot modules in. You will have to move individual probes in the pinpoint formation around in order to get to 100%. Basically moving the entire probe formation in/out, and then probably a few individual probes around to get from like 99.5% to 100%.

And I agree, that although I don't mind having the SHIFT/CTRL/ALT keys to make finding the probe adjustments easier, I want to be able to do it all with my mouse, since there's a lot of muscle memory to snapping around my view vertically/horizontally on the solar system map, and dragging and resizing probes. It seems less efficient to have to press SHIFT/CTRL/ALT to adjust the probes. Having the mouse wheel isn't bad, but you still have to hold ALT to use it which doubles your APM.

No no, you got me wrong, just to make sure there is no need at any time to press a modifier key for the operation of the whole formation, i.e. moving it around the map (and grabbing in the first place), resizing the whole formation, switch formation (pinpoint -> custom -> pinpoint).

Not sure if this is known issue, but if you enable the new map and scanning interfaces, probes will work on the new map, but if you use F10 they are not usable on the classic map. I assume you'd have to disable the new feature and reload to get it working again?

This is what the probes look like on the classic map when this happens: http://i.imgur.com/mfx23YV.png

Logged EBR-53607.

My scaling is 100% and there is line visible on the edges of the window, in fullscreen and in the fixed window mode. This is how it looks.

And I would like two new upgrades to the window, specifically the bars that can be minimized. This is the vizualization.

It would be nice if the probe cube were effectively "always on top" from a command interface perspective.

While the interface for probing is being looked at, is there any chance of signature storage being added?

Even with "legacy code", there has to be some workaround. This seems like it could be through a signature database that kept track of the pilots who had scanned it, or the use of personal bookmarks in the background. I am just throwing things out there, but this really should be added. It makes no sense that signatures are forgotten.

2 - Interesting. I'll do some more work on that tomorrow. As I say though, layering is something we want to take a 2nd pass at anyway - the tooltip delay is just a mitigation technique I am suggesting for now.