Make gas fee easy to use and understand [Alpha Version Feedback]

[Regenwasser]

Current implementation:

• The meaning of gas and the units are a mystery to many users. People don't know what to enter in those fields. Gas station icon doesn't help much, because the site mostly uses different units (Gwei)
• Having a field to adjust the gas price can be problematic. Can lead to errors: Some might overpay, pay too little and never get it never confirmed or they just won't touch these settings. Users have to do extensive research to understand gas and what they have to fill into these fields.
• Most users don't edit the gas fee
• A number with 10 Zero's is hard to read and understand.

I highly recommend reading this Medium post by the guys from Ethgasstation.info: https://medium.com/@ethgasstation/the-safe-low-gas-price-fb44fdc85b91 - It touches on many of those points and lists even more issues.

Changes:

I propose to narrow it down to three easy choices (The ETHgasAPI or some custom implementation could be used), just as explained in the Medium post. A 4th option would be to make custom edits, so advance users that for example want to skip the line in an ICO can make the changes they want.

Mockup:

Notes:

• This is an additional step at the moment (though with a bright signifier), but if we want to make even more users adjust the gas, it be beneficial to make it a separate step in the transaction-flow. (And test to see the impact).
• Fastest wouldn't be the default. This is just an example.
• Gas limit is missing here. (Could be a second text field that is also only active once the recommendation is turned off.) Some apps don't let users adjust it. E.g. Lunary, Mist. Need more info about the use cases.

[leafcutterant]

This issue covers most of what I think can be improved in the fee adjustment flow. Awesome observations and nice mock up -- I would be very happy to see this implemented!