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UI Feedback! Woohoo! (User Interface NOT Unified Inventory)

Author
Jiji Hamin
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-07-28 00:18:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Jiji Hamin
Hey guys!

So I hate how everyone always screams "make it an option" when a new feature gets added and when it makes no sense to be screaming that. However, there are two areas where interface customization has always been built in to eve and you have added new UI elements that are not customizable in a way that they need to be.

1. The panels that appear below system info if you have either an active mission or if you are in a FW system. these panels take up no small amount of screen real estate. Now, if you left click for a menu dropdown next to system info there is an option that says "configure." This allows you to customize if you want sec status, constellation name, sov, etc displayed in the top left. Back in the day the system information in the top left used up a lot of screen real estate but these days those options are barely helpful given how compact you all have made that UI element. (Thanks!) However, we cannot disable the mission information dropdown OR the contestation meters from FW using that option or any other option that I can find, when those dropdowns are not necessarily wanted by everyone and take up a huge amount of screen real estate. You can minimize them but they are still pretty lage and peak through from behind other windows when they are not thing that i care even remotely about having on my screen. I think it is fair to say that the "configure" option should include our abilities to make those disappear along side anything else that materializes in the top left corner alongside the route display pane(which we can make go away) and the system info (elements of which we can make go away).

2. There are already tooltip feedback threads asking for many things including making them more transparent, making them show ammo damage rather than just ammo name, tracking, etc. That is all another story, but those threads brought something up which falls within the preview of my request. Currently, if you bring up the menu by left clicking the little symbol below your modules/cap where there are the lock/unlock modules options and the absolute readout and so on, I do not see a way of getting rid of the tooltips. I would like it if there was an option that allowed us to turn off tooltip on that little list. I like the tooltips a lot, I just think it's entirely fair to make it so that people can get rid of them if they don't like or whatever.

I think all the new features are very cool and I like them and all, and I hate it when people are like "ZOMG LET US TURN OFF NEW INVENTORY" but I think that adding this UI customization is different entirely and could be integrated relatively easily into the systems already in place that are supposed to allow us to customize our UI. Thanks!