Menu changesFollow

edit: Nvm.

Edited, Apr 29th 2010 10:40am by Vataro

Yeah, this is plain irritating now. I shouldn't have to be extra careful when moving my mouse to make sure I don't rollover something else and have the menu change on me when I never even clicked a button.

Did you guys mention you'd be doing this? Because I would have mentioned I would be against it.

[EDIT] To be specific, we have a 25px range to stay in. If I accidentally jerk the mouse up over a small 25px (at most), we lose the menu we were on. Yes, it's not a major issue but it's just about as annoying as the problem you tried fixing by changing it to this.

Edited, Apr 29th 2010 4:33pm by Zenoxio

Something about it being a number of unnecessary clicks to get somewhere. I wasn't all that concerned, but it was a minor valid point.

I do see it reverts to the last menu you were on if you mouse-off. I suppose that's not too bad, although I can also see that causing problems if we accidentally mouse off the menus when we were actually trying to pick something in a new menu and it reverts to the original menu we were on...

It's all minor and I'll live with it, but I think a better menu concept would have made this a lot easier. Child rollout menus, for example.

Hopefully they didn't implement this to get rid of the problem with unnecessary clicks to get somewhere. The issue isn't the clicking. The issue was never the clicking. Unless you're literally missing your index fingers, or have never used a computer before, you know how to left-click on a mouse with some amount of speed. At least fast enough for the actual click not being the issue.

The issue was that you had to spend time browsing through all those sub-menus to get to the link you wanted when those links were directly visible before. Yes, this new menu thing is more easy on the eye if you're new here, but for those who had been using the same layout since the site was first built, browsing through all those visible links was much faster.

Compare it to my room, for instance. Yes, someone who walks in here might find it chaotic and would believe I spent unnecessary time going through the randomly spread out stuff to find what I needed. However, I know exactly where to find everything, at least the stuff I've been using regularly. If someone comes into my room and starts tidying it up, I'd not be able to find my own ***.

Am I the only one with muscle memory or what?

I was wondering what was up with the menu bar. This is freaking annoying. I didn't mind the extra clicking, but just going within a few pixels of another bar causes it to switch. It's not too bad with my USB mouse, but when I can only use the touchpad mouse, I find myself constantly going through the other sub-menus that I don't want nor care about.

Can we get rid of it please?

I found the old side menus irritating and wasteful of space. The drop downs were good, and the new menus were better aside from the clicking. I'm going to agree with Kaolian here and say this is a great change. If you're having that much trouble mousing over a menu, perhaps you should put your computer away and check into the old folks home already.



Edited, Apr 29th 2010 10:45pm by Xsarus

The forums tab (the second smallest one) is 63x30. The mouse cursor is what? 8x8?

The "main" menus (home/database/etc) aren't the issue, it's that the "sub" menu (news/contact/etc) are the same @#%^ing height as the "hand" mouse over cursor.


That and going forums -> FFXI General I keep getting the damn wikibase tab.

Edited, Apr 30th 2010 12:33am by shintasama

Never said I had trouble with it, just said it was faster the old way.

Now, considering the snide remarks in your post that remind me of this old, grumpy man I once knew, perhaps you'd care to join me for some prune juice and jitterbug with the ladies later on?

Mouseover previews are nice, though, especially since you can turn them on/off yourself.

I have ended up in the Asura server forums, the Monk job forums, and some tradeskill forums already this morning.

Yeah, have to throw my two cents in with a "Do not want" on this one, guys. Sorry.

Could "Race Forums" be moved to the "More FFXI" group (or to the right of "More FFXI")? It's a waste of space on the FFXI menu bar, but it's 100 extra pixels I have to move to get to the "FFXI Feedback" forum. (Which has x posts/hour, instead of x posts/week...)