Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
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Posted - 2012.10.30 17:53:00 -
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EVE Client:
Stacked Chat Windows
We need the ability to toggle whether a chat stack can be outright closed, or just minimized. Current behavior is that certain channels (Local, Corp, Alliance, Militia, Incursion, Fleet - LCAMIF hereafter) cannot be closed - only minimized - and any window stacks that contain one or more of these channels cannot be closed either - again, only minimized. This is a very, very useful behavior since the change to the UI that removed the ability for windows to minimize along the bottom of the screen.
However, it exposes an inconsistency within the chat UI, as seen in this imgur album: minimized stacks with an LCAMIF channel in them minimize to a new icon that lists window stacks, but minimized stacks that do not have an LCAMIF channel in them minimize to the Chat item in the Neocom - and it gives no indication which stack they're in.
Please allow us to toggle this "unclosable" behavior on any channel we want (and by extension, stacks) - and remove the inconsistency by having all chat stacks minimize to the icon visible in pictures 2 and 3 from the album. UI consistency is good. UI inconsistency is BAD.
Chat Highlighting Improvements
Chat highlight when someone says your name. It's cool to be able to see your own messages but more useful is the ability to see when someone has said your name (or one of several words/phrases you want to watch for). The ability to set the highlight color for this and other chat highlights from the client settings panel would be very welcome - the default grey color for "highlight my messages" is pretty nearly invisible in many cases, particularly on pinned windows; if they're pinned and you're in a Caldari station, forget about even seeing it. (Also, highlighting the blink on a tab if someone's said your name would be nice too!)
Channel Ownership Limits
Increase the total number of channels a character can own to 15 (from 10). I know most people don't need more than 10, but having to juggle around with alts can be a pain - and the RP community in particular might get some use out of it.
Channel Management
This really could merit a post or even a thread of its own given how many improvements could be made to this interface. The biggest one that is probably the simplest to implement, however, is this: modal windows suck, period. Being unable to interact with the rest of the client while one has the channel management/settings window up is absolutely crippling and a terrible user experience. Please make this interface a non-modal window so that the rest of the client can be interacted with while it is open.
Turret Placement - Heat Efficiency vs Aesthetics
This may not be small, but the ability to have turret placement on ship hulls separate from the slot in the fitting window. On many ships (like the Hurricane or Bhaalgorn for example), the overheating-friendly layout looks absolutely terrible, but the aesthetically-pleasing positioning is horribly heat-inefficient. It would be nice to be able to use heat-efficient placement in the fitting window but still have an aesthetically pleasing positioning for the guns. (Seriously, the Bhaalgorn looks dumb when the guns aren't all grouped together on the two side "wings".)
EVE Gate / Forums:
Mail Indicator Inaccuracy
Make the "mail" indicator display accurately. It currently lights up and counts ingame notifications that cannot be read on EVE Gate. Please make the indicator stop lighting up for ingame notifications that EVE Gate won't display - or better yet, just actually display them - and make it stop lighting up for mails we've already read ingame.
Mail Indicator Behavior
The mail indicator should behave like the notification indicator next to it - click on it and it brings up a dropdown of links to the 5 newest things in your mailbox. (This would also allow you to open these items in a new tab.) We already have a link to our evemail inbox on the page (helpfully labeled "MAIL"). We don't need a second link to the same page that provides no additional functionality. |