Messoroz wrote:Chat Channels can be found in the Neocom menu under Social.
This brings up the window that you get when you click on the speech-bubble icon in a chat window, and is not the button that people are complaining about.
CCP Optimal wrote:We added the button to blink you all to oblivion, but you all outsmarted us once again ...
But, no, the button was not supposed to be removable. The blinking you all seem to love on the other hand was a mistake, and we're fixing that in the next patch; only minimized chat windows will make the button blink. We also recognize that the current design of how chat windows and the neocom play together is not as good as it should be, and we'll be looking into a better solution that takes chat grouping into account as well soon. And I mean soon, as in the actual meaning of that word. We're also making the chat channel entries much more compact which should make people with a high number of channels slightly happier.
I do not recommend removing the chat button as it may require you to reset your Neocom buttons at some point. It will, anyway, not be possible after next patch.
Reset our Neocom buttons?
How and where? There is no option for this in the escape menu that doesn't destroy all of our other settings, nor is there an option on the neocom itself. Given how long it takes to fix all of the other things the last several times CCP has nuked our settings during a patch, I'm not willing to even consider that as a viable option.
The appropriate solution here consists of a few small things:
- Add the ability to disable blinking on individual buttons on the neocom. Let us pick which icons we want to blink, and which ones we don't.
- If people want to remove a button because they don't need it, or it annoys them, let them. What's the point of touting a customizable and reconfigurable user interface if it isn't possible to customize and reconfigure it to your liking?
- It doesn't matter what the button is, or whether it should be possible to remove it or not, it should be possible to find it in the E menu and add it back. Case in point, the chat button that has caused this mess in the first place.
- Chat windows - or stacks - should always minimize to the neocom separately from the chat button. Always.
It's worth noting that that chat button has other issues, particularly that people who have a lot of channels open can't even access them all through the button in the first place. The first level of the menu only shows a handful of channels. Then the second level of the menu (via the "
n more..." item in the list) only shows some of the remaining channels, the list of which runs off both the top and bottom edges of the client and are inaccessible because you
cannot scroll through the list.