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Oh, so that's how stuff works at CCP, eh?

You can't find the solution to an annoying interface issue that's pissing everyone off, so you just remove an entire feature to get rid of it altogether.

Just like you did with that cool "hover over target=camera looks at that target" feature.

Where the hell does CCP recruit from?

Please do some research before posting, almost every mmo to this day that has been released without a way to lock toolbars and UI elements has been plagued off the bat by complaints requesting the feature almost all of them capitulated and added the ability to lock UI elements, those that didn't are usually the games that yoiu can't move the UI elements around anyway.

Accidentally dragging UI elements around while playing is a major point of contention in many mmo's and causes major problems, usually at the worst possible moment.

I actually strongly dislike making windows transparent, with the exception of overview, selected item and drones. In particular transparent chat windows are very hard to read. My current monitor is too narrow to have two chat windows open in the bottom left without overlapping them, and if they're also transparent, the overlapping text is quite illegible. It's a pity this means I can't pin them because chat windows moving around is my #1 UI gripe (after overview/selected item/drones moving around, but that bug's been fixed).

Making transparency depend on focus is a stupendously dumb idea IMO. I really don't understand when people think "it's not focussed, so the user obviously isn't looking at it". As an example one of the things I hated most about Windows when I was forced to use it instead of RISC OS was that focussed windows are on top, always and without fail. It's not possible to have a non-focussed window in the foreground without ticking an "always on top" option that I don't actually want and usually isn't available, or enabling the obscure option called focus-follows-mouse which is prone to cockups and not taken account of by a lot of programs.


I use this a lot. People & places, market, and especially the IGB while doing missions/anomalies. Collapsing is quicker to reverse than minimising if you just want to get a window out of the way for a few moments. I don't usually collapse all windows, but I imagine that if pinning worked properly, there'd be less need to do it.

Also in regard to collapsing, if the window you're collapsing is snapped to a window at the bottom, either the window that's snapped to it moves up, or it ends up collapsed just above that window instead of where its title bar was. I never expect this but it happens a lot and annoys the hell out of me every time. Really, the only thing I use snapping for is to get my windows neatly positioned. I never use it to group windows to move them around together.


As mentioned above this is one misfeature I would like to see die in a fire, or at least turned off. It also interacts badly with "stack windows only if shift pressed". Suppose you want to take a chat window and stack it with another one that it happens to be snapped to. You start by holding shift and dragging the window... but then the window you're trying to merge it with starts moving too! You have to drag it out without shift, THEN shift-drag to stack.


Window systems 101: Modal windows are bad, mmkay? Every modal window is annoying and should be made not modal, unless you can think of a COMPELLING reason for it to be modal. Selecting installations in industry is a prime example, as is the petition system. If modal-ness were to disappear entirely there would be much rejoicing.

The fact that PI windows are always on the BOTTOM is stupid. They should be windows like any other, closing only when you tell them to, or when you leave planet mode. When I'm setting up new routes, more often than not I accidentally close the window because I accidentally clicked outside it rather than on the "create route" button.

The circular menu just gets in the way. I never use it. I only even see it by accident, when I'm trying to move the camera. I guess some people must use it, but please allow me to turn it off. Setting it to middle button is a poor compromise since I use that for PTT (on the rare occasions when I need to use Eve Voice).

Dudes....just bring that **** back. Seriously removing it was just silly on your part.