FC removing the old/orginal GUI???

[Linxz]

Originally posted by Cz
- Graphical glitch with GUI windows.
Known bug, and should only happen when you first log in. Closing and opening windown again removes it. Won't be focused on until the new GUI is fully implemented and the old removed, as it's a conflict between the two.

Quoted from Cz's post about the 15.4.1 update
Status @ 9:30am UTC/GMT Wednesday

Am I reading this correctly? Are you going to remove the old GUI(the one first released with AO)?????

PLEASE PLEASE don't remove the old GUI!!!! I've been using the old GUI since beta... I love my old gui and absolutly hate the new one. Please do not remove this.

[Skymarshal]

I can see them removing it. I would imagine that many things that go into making the new GUI work are in conflict with the old one. (As it has been said)

This being the case, the players using the new GUI would suffer from everyone still using the old one. One of the other posts that was made shows that we will most likely be able to skin the new GUI and based on some stuff that people have said, there might be much more possibility to customize the new GUI once it is fully implemented. I don't think its a bad thing.

I know that I stuck it out with the old one for awhile, but eventually I got sick of some things with it, and now I exclusivly use the new GUI.

[_________________Jen]

As much as I detest the 'new' gui, it is also a work in progress and I'm sure not complete.

The biggest reason for me not using it is the inability to cut off part of your game window and fill it with (usually) my team/status/map window.

In the new gui, all those windows just overlap the 'interface' near the bottom and you need to be running some pretty high resolutions to actually use it without running in to that problem. Doable, but with SLs being such a resource hog, doing so starts to negatively impair my gaming. And I have a pretty high end computer. (It seems very obvious to me that whoever is developing it does not run the game at the standard 1024/768 res.)

Either adding a cut-away in the new gui just like there is in the old, or allowing us to make all that pretty crap that covers the bottom and partially the sides vanish so that our important windows didn't stack over them and give us headaches trying to look at overlapped graphics would make me switch in a heartbeat.

Please do not take out the old gui till that new one is a lot more 'finished' then say...your patches are.

[____________Quietus1]

God no. I hate the new GUI. Please don't take away my option to use it.

[Metaing]

Originally posted by Linxz

PLEASE PLEASE don't remove the old GUI!!!! I've been using the old GUI since beta... I love my old gui and absolutly hate the new one. Please do not remove this.

Lets keep the old GUI, I hate the new one too.

[iloveposting]

I agree, Keep the old one.
The new ones like trying to pilot a spaceship
So many buttons and commands.

[Metaing]

Originally posted by Peisinoe
The biggest reason for me not using it is the inability to cut off part of your game window and fill it with (usually) my team/status/map window.

In the new gui, all those windows just overlap the 'interface' near the bottom and you need to be running some pretty high resolutions to actually use it without running in to that problem. Doable, but with SLs being such a resource hog, doing so starts to negatively impair my gaming. And I have a pretty high end computer. (It seems very obvious to me that whoever is developing it does not run the game at the standard 1024/768 res.)

Either adding a cut-away in the new gui just like there is in the old, or allowing us to make all that pretty crap that covers the bottom and partially the sides vanish so that our important windows didn't stack over them and give us headaches trying to look at overlapped graphics would make me switch in a heartbeat.

Yes, doubt any of the devs play in anything but 1600x1200 otherwise they would have made a lot of options to reduce all the crap in the new GUI, and arranged the stuff nicely. It might be nice arranged along the edges in 1600x1200 but anything below that half the screen is full of windows, so you cant see anything, its like having tunnel vision.

[DiddiDave934]

Oh no, please don't make me use the new gui...I only play in 1024 since it keeps the framerates up (especially in SL) this is essentially making people play in high res with lots of clutter!

Whats the point of taking out the old one anyway? Its great!

[Engelen]

God no...if they remove the old GUI I will probably move on to another game. The new GUI is really messy even on 1280*960 Resolution, with windows and buttons everywhere. Stats spread on the whole screen. Please, do NOT remove the old GUI.

*writing a feedback*

[Metaing]

Does FC have any stats on how many ppl use the old GUI vs the new one, or is it totally client sided ? I know lots of ppl using the old as they hate the new one.

[mrbbad]

I also am no fan of the new GUI. The old one is simple, I don't like the clogging buttons and such on the new one.

Not to mention the new GUI looks horrible, while the old GUI has many nice eye-pleasing skins.

So, mark me down on the, "I wanna stick with the old GUI" list. If there is one.

Just my humble comments.

[Myers]

I think the new one is far supeior to the old one

[DevineMartyr]

My beef with the new GUI is you open a menu and it isnt like the old one were it stays to the right of the screen so you can scroll thru it. The menus float around and then you have to remeber which icon to hit to turn off the menu you have up, which in turn is usually hidden under another menu.

Simplicity is the key to good play control.

[Hamini]

yeah likewise i really am not a fan of the new gui. For one its big and clunky and takes up a large amount of the screen. For another its hard to manage the positions of things. For a third its annoying to have to go through a set of menus to get to what you could previously with a simple click or ctrl+#

[______________DLS242]

One of the most enoying things about the new I think is the HP/nano/XP bas ... hate the location of them .. will take months for my eyes to adjust to looking 10cm down ... Tryed playing the new GUI for a week or two but i couldnt.... got so frustrated ... only good thing as i see it now ..is the option to fade efrything ..and the buttons for emotes ... but it would still be better whit a biger hotbar whit 20-30 icons then i could have my emotes there instead .... hmmm

and yes .. feels like its suited to work at 1600x1200 ... hmm I run 1280x1024 witch i think is fairly high rez ...but whit the new GUI it feels like running 800x600 again like back in the days on my old computer .... and I have lower FPS whit new GUI

[NewReynal]

I've been using the new GUI since shortly after SL's release. It took some getting used to, but I've come to like it. I don't see any reason why it should be necessary to remove it entirely though. A GUI is just that...an INTERFACE...no future changes to AO should necessitate removing the option of using the old GUI.

[Wizardkiss]

They need to leave the old one as a permanent option.

[Randomtasks]

Please keep the old one

[gwend]

Originally posted by Metaing
Lets keep the old GUI, I hate the new one too.

for once how about the devs not make work arounds and actually fix something

[___________Skyminder]

I too have a violent hatred for the new GUI.

Don't get rid of it. I shouldn't have part of my screen blocked because some dutchman has a fascination with the curvy-ergonomic craze.

I like having squares shaped things that I can move around.

Most importanly, I don't like WASTING viewable area on my monitor, and the "new" GUI IS NOT SPACE-EFFICIENT!!!!