Hello all! I didn’t see a thread for this so I figured I’d start one.
With the upcoming UI changes for alpha, what are some things you’d like to see implemented?
I’d personally love a config mode for raid frames, and a grid to place UI elements on. I’d also love some macro changes, like fixing the /petdefensive bug.
edit: Actually, the ability to use a namespace qualifier in XML would cure the need for nested mixins, where something like $namespace would evaluate to the namespace commonly assigned in Lua:
local _,addon = ...
addon.PanelButtonMixin = {}
<Button parentKey="SaveButton" mixin="$namespace.PanelButtonMixin"/>
PVP conditional for the macro API.
A scripts attribute (comma delimited list) in conjunction with the intrinsic attribute that allows “inheriting” scripts not native to the base widget.
<Frame name="MyCoolIntrinsic" mixin="MyIntrinsicMixin" intrinsic="true" scripts="OnValueChanged, ...">
<!-- Other bits -->
<Scripts>
<OnValueChanged method="OnValueChanged" intrinsicOrder="precall" />>
</Scripts>
</Frame>
<MyCoolIntrinsic>
<!-- Other bits -->
<Scripts>
<OnValueChanged>
-- do stuff
</OnValueChanged>
</Scripts>
</MyCoolIntrinsic>```Consolidation/Morphing of Cleansing spells so they don’t need to be coded separately for each spec
Morphable base spells for hunter pet family abilities so they don’t need to be explicitly coded for each pet family - similar to Command Demon
Explanation as to how identifying talents in macros will work with the new system
talent is a lot of chars.Placeholder spells for all the new “pick one of” talents so we dont need to code each option separately.
Fix the unholy mess they made of reticle macros in 9.2.5
So it’s still early in Alpha and the UI update is still very, very, very rough. Because this was announced as an expansion feature, I would expect that this should be a major overhaul. But I just want to list my BARE MINIMUM expectations:
Increase limit on the number of character-specific macros. In terms of “modernizing” the UI, as was stated as part of the intention of the rework, being capped at 18 macros for specific characters since 2005 seems like a good place to start.
Raid frames should not bug out when someone joins/leaves the raid while in combat. How has this bug been in the game forever when none of the raid frame addons have this problem?
Raid profile switching should be more fluid. Sometimes when the raid frame just doesn’t switch to another profile when it should.
Allow the cast bar to be moved / resized. I would also like to see the remaining time / total cast time number on the bar as well.
Allow the target cast bar to detached from the target frame finally, and give it the same move / scale that the main cast bar would have.
Re-add the interface options that were removed years ago. There’s no reason that I should need an addon to get options that were once available (and that are available in classic), such as the ability to change camera distance and specify exact what messages are shown in the scrolling combat text.
Allowing for more action bars to be on screen (Live has 5: main, bottom right, bottom left, right 1, right 2). Bartender allows for 10 bars, though these are bars shared with stances/forms/stealth so there is less usable bars for a class like druid, but great for a warlock or mage.
Because they solved it while Blizzard has done nothing? Currently experiencing this whenever someone joins/leaves a group. Clicking a person selects the party member above or below.
Yeah. Don’t do that. It’s spamming (not my rules, the forums rules).
What the UI community wants added to Dragonflight is a very current topic.
If you feel rules are broken, use the report button, make your case and move on. You are not a moderator and nobody has appointed you to be one.
Lodge, you have turned at least one person away from this forum because you’ve made them unwelcome. Don’t turn away more.
“Bumping” posts is specifically mentioned under the spamming rules.
We can have a discussion about it here if you want, but if the rule didn’t apply, it wouldn’t be there.
Reminding someone of the rules is not offensive unless the person is looking to take offense.
And to you, of course.
Also, as has been mentioned many, many times. The Devs don’t look here for help.
This topic (an interesting one with clearly more to be said) has been derailed enough. Another reason to quietly hit the report button if you feel rules are broken rather than step into the thread as a self-appointed moderator.
To bring things back to the topic, I’d like to see some sort of user-positionable buff/debuff tracking. We have the ability to adjust the stock buffs, I’d like to be able to add a buff group, whitelist/blacklist specific buffs, and define the unit(s) to check on.
This could largely replace WeakAuras/NeedToKnow/TellMeWhen outside from specific things like MM Hunter 4pc, boss-specific WAs, etc.
“The act of posting simply to bump a thread is considered spamming.”
There are no exceptions for new posters, well-regarded posters, or “This is an interesting thread and I want to keep it at the top of the list”.
It’s black letter (well, blue letter).
Both are forms of member moderation.
The only folks who have been offended by this are you and the folks who come here, break the rules, are reminded (gently) what those rules are, and can’t handle even that level of reproach.
The report flag has become an anti-popularity contest. Only mass reports are dealt with.
But wrong is wrong whether it’s one person seeing it or everyone dealing with it.
Me? I’d rather someone pointed out an error than end up getting silenced over doing something routinely that I missed as being against the rules (as has happened, to me, although not on this toon).
Reminding someone of the rules is not abusive. Some of the replies I’ve gotten for doing so come very close to being abusive.
You don’t make the rules, Gello, and you don’t get to silence those of us who actually care.
Chill. I remembered this thread, had like 5 seconds to tag it so I’d remember to post something more substantive when I had a moment, then did so, within like 10 hours. And this is one of the slowest moving forums there are.
I’ll delete my bump.
If only you could actually see the 100%, rolled gold, additional spam your responses create…
Error: Stack Overflow…
Apply to sender.
Fizz, I appreciate the sentiment, but wrong is wrong.
Most of the folks I’ve said something to have had under 100 posts and probably don’t even know the rules.
The very few who have gotten really upset with me probably have other issues to deal with.
The whole point of this is to avoid necroing dead threads and I have almost utterly stopped doing any sort of complaints on those. I let them slide unless they’re truly egregious and even then I don’t reengage if the person objects.
But pointing out a rules violation is not abusive.
You guys harassing me for it comes close.
Get over yourselves, please.
How are they going to learn if no one tells them?
Hello all!
I’m looking forward to seeing some of the new UI features in DF, but on my wishlist is to hide the action bar gryphons, have the option to hide the portrait on our unit frames (alternately, have the option to have a square portrait… the round one adds so much bulk), and have a square minimap, because a round map in the corner really just drives me nuts.
Edit -
Just as an afterthought, in regards to bumping threads being considered spamming… while that is true, and is a forum rule, it’s generally applied to older threads that may have outdated information. 24 days between posts is far from a dead topic, especially in a current alpha/beta phase. And feedback for each topic is better left consolidated in one thread, as opposed to spread between many. It makes gathering feedback on various topics much easier.
This is learned from many years on the CS forum (although this isn’t my regular posting avatar, the forums like to log me out and switch avatars for me, so I just go with it).
I hope they bring back the ability to change the nameplate view distance.
Bringing over some of the still-relevant issues from the SL version of this thread.
/petdefensive not putting pets into defensive stance[flyable] to check whether the character can fly in a given zone, not whether the given zone is flight-enabled[flyable] condition eg. [flyable] returns true for flight & dragonflight, [flyable:1] returns true for regular flight, [flyable:2] returns true for dragonflight.[petspec:#] for hunters so pet family-specific abilities can be macro’ed more easily without resorting to itemizing each and every pet that I could possibly use in that family.[@cursor] [@player]) for items and commands eg. /petmoveto
/castrandom and /userandom follow the same priority logic as /cast and /use.
/cast prioritizes spells and /use prioritizes items while /userandom is simply an alias of /castrandom - Horn of Winter (Spell: 57330) and Horn of Winter (Item:140749) can be used to test/castsequence, /castrandom etc. support for items/spells with commas in their names (eg Yu’lei, Daughter of Jade)I can see a problem with @mouseover = @mo as it’s entirely possible for that to be confused with targeting a character named “mo” on your own server (assuming capitalization does not matter for names - I’d have to check that). They’d have to block “Mo” as a name both current and retroactively to make that work, I think. They could use “@m_” as special characters like underscores aren’t allowed in names.