Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.06.07 23:51:00 -
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Challu wrote:Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:There's a reason why MANY softwares have moved the hell away from tree views and implemented tabs.
It's called basic, simple sense.
Writings are horizontal (western ones). That is, they take lots of horizontal real estate.
Tree views make already large windows unnecessarily larger by putting horizontal information to the left of the window.
Tabs make large windows functional because they take small vertical real estate and zero horizontal real estate.
The very fact you are going against all the accepted modern UI designs and find it good enough to "not going anywhere" is worrysome.
You are implementing outdated and unpractical concepts. The day the UI is bug fee, it will still be conceptually wrong.
See, many times I wanted to send CCP my curriculum but with decision makers taking this kind of directions and then sticking to them, I would feel embarassed. I would probably be bound to some "you won't publicly state your superiors borked grand time" legal agreement as well so I'd be put together the same people who can think these kinds of designs.
No way. Listen to this man. You should have implemented this UI in lieu of the Asset tab allowing Eve-wide searches, and left the old system as is.. Least you can do is bring back the exact functionality as before, including right-click options, neocon buttons etc. CCP, I realize you like the tree, but it gets in the way the moment you have more than a few things to work with.
Yeeah, see, it's too bad CCP doesn't actually give a hoot about player feedback until players start to leave in droves.
I mean, look at Incarna and population collapse. We got Crucible out of it, more communication, more transparency. Now a year passed, and we're back to not knowing what's coming until it's almost here and it's too late to change anything because too much time was already invested in it.
Sad state of affairs, really. Worst thing is, I don't think anyone even wanted the new UI. The only feature people got excited about was being able to see the estimated value. Which, in my experience so far is still not worth it because the estimate is usually wrong by 40-200%. And this could have been done with the old UI without massively screwing things up with the new one and setting the other development back by who knows how long while they fix this one.
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