Most windows that I spend a lot of time on (GTL, PC, inventory, etc) I feel are too small by default. Especially on a system with plenty of screen real estate.
I've been fiddling with the XML files a bit trying to scale these windows, and I was able to improve most of them. However the process was not very intuitive, and I'm not too pleased with the result.
I suggest making all (or at least most) screens scalable like the chat window. I'm not too familiar with that TWL library, but I reckon it supports dynamic window resizes (?). It works with the chat window.
Main reasons for scaling windows:
Too many items for this small inventory screen. The name filter is a nice improvement, but a bigger visible overview makes it that much easier to work with. This is what I use at the moment. Finding and dragging items is much easier.
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PC box tabs overflowing the PC window. I feel this arrow navigation is unnecessary and slow to work with.
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Definitly not perfect, but I like it more than the default (does seem to cause some framerate issues). Perhaps putting tabs on a new line when overflow occurs would work as well.
GTL listings. Because of pagination I didn't try to fiddle with this (is the pagination adjustable?). Having only 10 items with a ton of pages, refreshing each click, doesn't feel very friendly to work with. I'd like to be able to maximize the GTL screen and fit as much listings as I want/memory can handle.
Couldn't come up with any non-subjective arguments. But I feel making these windows resizable (or more customizable in general) is not a very difficult improvement to implement. And it would make my experience on this game quite a bit more enjoyable.
Cheers
Edit:
To change sizes of windows shown above (please backup /data/themes/default folder before doing so).
/data/themes/default/ui/inventory.xml
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/data/themes/default/ui/pc.xml
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Edit values between <int> elements with a text editor (notepad, sublime text, etc). The integer values represent amount of pixels afaik.
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Solist
Hello,
Most windows that I spend a lot of time on (GTL, PC, inventory, etc) I feel are too small by default. Especially on a system with plenty of screen real estate.
I've been fiddling with the XML files a bit trying to scale these windows, and I was able to improve most of them. However the process was not very intuitive, and I'm not too pleased with the result.
I suggest making all (or at least most) screens scalable like the chat window. I'm not too familiar with that TWL library, but I reckon it supports dynamic window resizes (?). It works with the chat window.
Main reasons for scaling windows:
PC box tabs overflowing the PC window. I feel this arrow navigation is unnecessary and slow to work with.
Definitly not perfect, but I like it more than the default (does seem to cause some framerate issues). Perhaps putting tabs on a new line when overflow occurs would work as well.
Couldn't come up with any non-subjective arguments. But I feel making these windows resizable (or more customizable in general) is not a very difficult improvement to implement. And it would make my experience on this game quite a bit more enjoyable.
Cheers
Edit:
To change sizes of windows shown above (please backup /data/themes/default folder before doing so).
/data/themes/default/ui/inventory.xml
/data/themes/default/ui/pc.xml
Edit values between <int> elements with a text editor (notepad, sublime text, etc). The integer values represent amount of pixels afaik.
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