koshi wrote:
YokoZar wrote:
The icons for receiving a message seem to be the exact opposite of what I expect. An offline user is a yellow smiley face, someone who just sent me a message is blacked out. I can't figure out what the different colors on the chat tabs mean either
The icons are overlayed with the color you set in options.
I didn't make any such configurations. Like most users, I use the defaults.
YokoZar wrote:I think some of these could be merged.
Which ones, how? Have you been aware of the configurable layout?
Oh yes, the configurable layout was made quite painfully clear to me the first three times I accidentally dragged a tab instead of clicking and got a completely useless mesh of unreadably small windows. I quickly learned to never touch them that way again. In my case, I would have very much liked something like Firefox's right click->unlock toolbar feature. This makes it simultaneously
easier to discover the tabs are movable if you want to move them as well as harder to make an unintentional mistake.
Regardless, I see a recurring theme of "well we have an option for that or you can configure that" in your posts regarding UI complaints. Making something configurable is
not the end of all usability design. You need to pick reasonable defaults for things like window size, which tabs go where, and colors - this is what 90% of users use, and more importantly 100% of first time users.
By the way, I will note that the configurable layout cannot be changed in this way - I can't drag the battle room or battle list tabs next to the chat tabs. Instead they have to sit under completely different main tabs.
YokoZar wrote:Autojoining a channel should be as simple as right clicking the channel and selecting a "autojoin this channel at connect" checkbox.
You should actually try right clicking.
I just did, again, it didn't work. So I went poking around, and it turns out the option is only there when I right click the
text, and not the channel tab. To me the tab is the channel, as that's where its title is.
YokoZar wrote:When I updated a fresh install I got a completely useless message
When I did that change, I handed the build to a few people who were utterly confused about the change w/o notice. Either way it's a one time thing.
Interestingly, if you had a "unlock" feature for the tabs you could use the checking/unchecking of that to control whether or not that message were displayed.
YokoZar wrote:I'll be happy to provide more suggestions if you like
Sure.
lurker wrote:Bug in the text control that they can't get the scroll position, and apparently nobody can fix it. At least I think they tried to fix it.
exactly. We tried a couple of different ways and best thing we came up with is the right click option to temp disable text appending.
It's quite possible your toolkit is simply inadequate and needs to be extended.
Some more issues:
There seems to be a good deal of wasted space on the single player tab. It feels wrong that There's a whole lot of gray area on the sides of the map and that the mod options are all off on a separate tab when they can be put into the main tab on a multiplayer game.
