Ingame PS GUI

[Moogie]

Poll Question:

For the resolution you most commonly play PlaneShift with, would you say the size/shape of the ingame menus and GUI windows is:

a) Just right
b) Too small or hard to read
c) Too large or cluttered


If you vote, please take the time to post your vote below, including the resolution you play in.


Thank you


Edit: Grrr to the reordering the forum did without telling me -.-

[Keyaz]

for me it\'s too big and cluttered, solely due to font sizes changing

running windowed at 1024 x 768

EDIT I remembered this inter-changeable font size wish list thread

[Lolitra, Celorrim Purrty Twins]

we also use 1024x768 and we find the ingame menus are too big and cluttered...  they should be made so they can be shrunk and as you shrink them the fonts shrink too..

 

[dragonfire999]

i run 1024x768 and think it is too big or cluttered.

[LigH]

ATM, I have edited ~ 1/3 of the XML files (changed or added font tags) and set them Read-Only afterwards.

[Drey]

c. using different sizes.
some things could be smaller such as the info window... i dont know why its the size it is, what is ther eactually in there to make it that big. and the chat box, also the other thing, shortcuts but thats not too much of a problem.

mostly using 1024 by 768

[Draklar]

Too big and cluttered in my opinion too. And 1024 x 768 as well.

I end up resizing whatever doesn\'t require much effort for that.

[Seytra]

I\'m running 1280x960
The GUI is by far too large, especially the main info window. Also, the buddylist window wastes serious space at the left, top and bottom, and also some space at the right.
Since the change of the font size to something ridiculously large the shortcut window is also too big.
The top toolbar is alright, I minimise it always, anyway, and when I use it the size is fine.
Also, the chat window wastes space at it\'s lower end. I manually move it down each time so that the wasted part is outside the window.

In the linked to screenshot I have marked the space that is wasted using white lines. The main info window I have left at my default replacement to exemplify how it should look, as the original one is huge beyond marking.

Marked setup

[josephoenix]

Running at 1600x1200 (:O) and it\'s still a little cluttery. Very pretty though :]

I think the gui designer forgot about transparency. The gui could be alot more organic, so to speak, and hug the edges of the screen more. This keeps it all nice and out of the way..

josePhoenix

[apis]

I agree, there is too much wasted space.

I run at 1280x1024 Fullscreen or 1280x960 windowed and the fonts were huge I have changed most of the xml files to make it usable for me...

[Ghostslayer]

Running it at 1152x864 Fullscreen, and I find the GUI is too large and cluttered.

[steuben]

font size is too big. everything else works pretty well.

[Cha0s]

It\'s too big. It needs to be condensed and reshaped to fit to the sides of the screen more. The chat window also needs to shrink a bit.

[AryHann]

I haven\'t voted.

I am in charge of fixing the complete GUI and, apart a basic lack of time atm, doing it is a really slow and long process.

The complete GUI needs to be fixed not just in order to be \"small and pretty\" but also to be functional and usable.
This concept should start to be applied in the starting screens, which are not easy to navigate, for instance.

There is already the knowledge that the GUI has several issues (as a matter of fact among the devs we have discussed this around August and for this reason I got the task), therefore the poll is not that useful.
When I test PS I even use the smallest possible resolution and it is not just how big is the window the base on which modify the layout or even the shape of a window.

At the moment, the GUI will not go through big changes because I have other things to do, but this doesn\'t mean that it will not get improved, on the other hand, it means that when it will be completely redesigned it will not be just the \"clutterness\" that will be fixed.

If you have suggestions they are all welcome (for example, Nikodemus has suggested a change in a window and it is currently being analyzed), but let this work be in the hands of \"professionals\" :-) Thanks!

[zorbels]

Running at 1024 x 768 and I agree with most that it is to big and cluttered. I think the font size is way to big and there is alot of wasted space...