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Old October 24th, 2006, 03:08 AM
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

Other than a big button that says "shrink me," how would you do it intuitively?
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sigh.
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Old October 25th, 2006, 04:20 AM
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

Sigh? It was a legitimate question. If anyone has better suggestions, we can send 'em in to Malfador. The UI is quite clunky, overall.

(I do agree that the small pics should be used by default...)
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

How about when you right click there is a submenu that you can change the size of the items?

simply clicking on the bar at the top should be a bonus/easter egg shortcut explained in the manual for those that read them. =)
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

Not another sub-menu! There already the cause of too many UI complaints!
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

Then how about a setting within the Empires option.
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Default Re: How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

Clicking unmarked areas of the screen as if they were buttons is by far the worst interface idea that has come up in a long long time. The same is true for right-clicking the text of the ship report.

The action of clicking something requires something specific to the task for which the clicking is being done.

A button marked "shrink me" is a good idea -- much better than clicking an undocumented area of the screen. Another would be to add an option under "Empire->Display Settings", where most of this kind of stuff is currently found.
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Have them use the small pics by default
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