Interface change suggestions?

[zabeal]

Hello! I have never posted here, as I do not have much complaints, and I like the plans that the devs have. However, I am wondering what thoughts people have on the most obvious part of Planeshift: the interface!
A few things I would liked changed:
The /tell and add/remove buddy popups fro mteh buddy window not only are hard to use with long commands, but steal the focus. It can be dangerous to try to use them as a shortcut if you might be attacked!

There is no way to copy and paste text- moving shortcuts requires rewriting them.
With the command line, you can atleast scroll up to previous commands, and go to the start of the line with Home, but you can\'t click in the middle.

Many of the icons to not make sense- it may be funny to have an axe for shorctus, but will a new player think to click there for commands? Similarly the two icons for looting are not clear wihich is to split loot, and which is to keep it.

Other thoughts?  

[DaveG]

Originally posted by zabeal
There is no way to copy and paste text- moving shortcuts requires rewriting them.

Not in-game, no, but there is an easier way.  The shortcuts are stored on the client side.  Edit the file data\\options\\shortcutcommands.xml (don\'t use notepad, it may display it weird;  wordpad or an actual decent text editor will work)  The syntax is fairly obvious, just remember to put the correct numbers in the start and end tags for each line when you\'re done.  (If you want quotations or something in the name, put it in in-game and it\'ll add the necissary stuff.)

On the subject of intuitiveness, I agree with you.  Some of the interface could do with a little reworking.  For starters, the default action in the chat window should be \"/say\".  If you don\'t type a command, it should be obvious you\'re trying to talk.

Another thing I\'d like to see would be a tiny list of \"tool belt\" icons I could setup underneath the stances.  It would be allot nicer to have little icons for the spells and items then to have to bother with text commands and shortcuts.

[zabeal]

Yes, I had to edit the xml to change my shortcuts when they got cluttered- first I copy and pasted whole lines before I realized you have to change the number at the start AND end of each tag A bit of work.

Hm, you are another person who thinks they need /say... what ever happned to trying things? But yes, even that needs to be clearer.

Having shortcuts wihth icons instead of names might be a good idea. I do not use most of the icons at the top of the screen, maybe those could be edited, and have room for more perhaps?