Can you please fix

[Ramona_McCandless]

Thats the great thing about the interface people call ugly, old or hard to use, its actually pretty flexible for all kinds of people.

[Fale_Einn]

This is really neat, I’m always looking for ways of making things more efficient and what you are doing might be one. One of the problems I’ve run into is that by making things easier to get at I seem to wind up with too many windows open and since I play on a laptop I’m constantly running out of space. Stacking windows so they have tabs hasn’t worked very well so I usually don’t do that unless it’s stuff like chat windows. Things I need for flying, seeing what’s around me, and doing stuff like aligning, targeting and warping I need right on top all the time. That’s where I use the selected items window a lot.
I’ve tried a lot of other people’s overviews, but finally settled on my own which is mostly the default with some things added and some colors changed. Because I’m on a laptop the overview usually requires scrolling to see a lot of what’s on it, so things like the next gate being deselected are really irritating.
I also usually have it set to display stuff by distance and have the Dscan window doing the same.
I prefer to use the mouse as little as possible, but have found command keys are unreliable at best, and that some simply don’t work at all (D for docking sometimes works, but it’s also supposed cause you to jump, it doesn’t). Some of this is a mater of window focus, using V to trigger Dscan for example only works if your mouse is in the right place and you have clicked in the window you need or in space. If you ever see me say “vvvvvvvvvvvvv” in chat, that means I’m frantically trying to find something.
When I was really really new I had a lot of trouble with Dscan and the people teaching me how to use it got pretty aggravated. I figured out on my own that using the V key and clicking stuff in space, the overview, or on the map would point your cone at the object you were clicking on. I later found out that the people teaching me Dscan didn’t know this was possible and were aligning their ships to the places they wanted to scan, something I didn’t understand at all. When I explained what I found they didn’t believe me at first, but when they tried it they freaked out. This made me wonder about a lot of things, some of these people had been playing for a really long time. What other advice had I gotten that was making stuff harder?