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Multiple Chat Tab Rows
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Rogatien Soldier
C A R D I N A L
#1 - 2012-03-22 04:10:54 UTC
Simple UI suggestion.

I'm now playing EVE on a laptop instead of my desktop and the lack of screen space is a real pain in the ass. If I have eight chat windows open but only enough room to display four, I currently see four and then a white triangle pointed to the right that tells me I have more windows open that I cannot see. I suggest you allow an option to see multiple rows of chat tabs. So instead of four non-visible chat windows, I would have two rows of four tabs. Or A row of five and a row of three, depending on the width of my chat window. Or whatever.

Feel like I over-explained what is a really simple idea. UI folks - get this done! :-)
Rogatien Soldier
C A R D I N A L
#2 - 2012-03-22 04:12:43 UTC
Also, I'm aware that you could separate the hypothetical eight tabs into two chat windows and then stack them one behind the other with a vertical offset so you can see blink notifications, but meh. Ghetto.
Drop-Me-Own-Stocks Darius
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-03-22 07:12:22 UTC
I also wish the UI wouldn't freeze everytime you changed a chat tab.
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Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks
#4 - 2012-03-22 08:18:26 UTC
Drop-Me-Own-Stocks Darius wrote:
I also wish the UI wouldn't freeze everytime you changed a chat tab.


It doesn't for me. I've got it running on a few varying aged computers and it doesn't appear to freeze on any of them.
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#5 - 2012-03-22 08:58:20 UTC
Drop-Me-Own-Stocks Darius wrote:
I also wish the UI wouldn't freeze everytime you changed a chat tab.



Out of curiosity, do you have chat logging enabled?

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