Grey Stormshadow wrote:Ranger 1 wrote:
Example: When you dock and are sorting your loot out of your cargo hold. All you need have open is your cargo hold. Filter things however you like and simply drag the items to the appropriate listings in the tree. All of your sorting is done from one window, with far less mouse movement back and forth across your screen than dragging from one window to various other windows. The tree is right next to the items you are working with.
All that extra mouse movement needs to be done because you don't leave the tree open so that you can sort, drag, and drop on the hangers (etc.) listed there. In other words the tree isn't just there to allow you to easily find and open other hangers/containers... it's there to provide one spot (immediately adjacent to where your mouse will be) to drag your items to when sorting.
...but in many cases dropping items to tree eventually means that you have to be aware what and how much is in the destination folder already. Having 2 windows shows all the relevant information immediately and makes such item transfers much easier.
Then there is also the problem that you need to scroll the tree all the time and it is rather easy to accidentally drop stuff to wrong folder. This can be rather annoying specially in cases where your stuff end up to corp hangars you don't have withdrawal access to.
Completely understandable, and many people find keeping things straight mentally is easier when things are in consistant and seperate locations on their screen.
I don't see anything wrong with having multiple windows open for reference, but the actual draging and dropping (sorting) would much more easily be done from the main window (the one you happen to be currently working on) to the tree. Thus the other posters comments about his insistance on closing the tree being counter productive.
The issues with the other windows updating properlly, and perhaps some minor tweaks to the physical layout of the tree are certainly valid concerns that should be easy to rectify.
I will make one point that is near and dear to my heart.
If you make it so that your inventory window(s) can be dragged to another monitor, outside of your EVE window, you will make people pretty much universally happy.
One of the main problems with having multiple windows open for reference all the time (as Tippia does) is it leaves very little space for actually playing the game. Being able to move those windows to another monitor would be a boon to many people, and even people that play on a single montior in windowed mode would probably like the option to put all chat/inventory type items to the side away from their main play area.