Hi,

so I have this little sheet of paper where I keep annotating little suggestions, let me scratch the coffee rings off it and copy it here. It's a bit disorganized.

What usually irritates me most are the usability aspects of the UI, like modal interfaces, excessive/unnecessary clicks/keypresses, etc.

I'm afraid a lot of them are not new, but I hope it's no prob for the devs to arrange anything new into their trashbin^H^H^H^H^HTODO list.

1. Shift-U:
   

1. Online instant replay (I guess this has been suggested before).
   
2. While View MPR: Options -> Screen
   
3. I've hit Shift-S expecting to get into the garage while spectating.
   
4. "A player is already connecting" ? Hello? Who cares, show a retry or timer. Specially since sometimes it just goes back to password/connect screen without a comment. BTW: If on the screen there is just a single OK button in a dialog, make clicking everywhere on the screen the same as clicking on the button, mouse-marathons are so annoying. There are multiple places where this happens, this is just one of the most annoying ones.
   
5. Garage screen: add a JOIN button so we dont have to ESC-Click-ESC-Click (there is space on lower right), even make that button activate on enter, so all we have to do is: ESC-Click-Enter
   
6. If i hit ESC-Garage for 1st time and there is only one available car, automatically select that car. Annoying.
   
7. "/w" commands: "must be on track and in car" when there is a race going on (get your track out of that) and only a single car type can be selected, annoying.
   
8. "/ws" commands: add new command (suggest "/wstfu") that gets the track/car/player from the car I'm spectating (including my own cockpit view while playing). If not expectating anyone show error message.
   
9. Position list (the short list), make clicking on names do something: like left-click message, right-click view (like on the long connections list)
   
10. Setup: Add notepad, each entry gets automatically tagged with date & time.
    
11. Add a "new N personal messages in LFSW mailbox" notification, either on online server list fetch or on server join, or whatever. Some people dont check LFSW every day but play every hour not asleep/eating :eclipseeh
    
12. Other suggestions I cant decypher now because of sucking callygraphy+coffee.
    

HTH, HAND, YMMV

A lot of what you say makes sence... Although you could have wrapped it a bit nicer .

Quote from bobvanvliet :

A lot of what you say makes sence... Although you could have wrapped it a bit nicer .

Hmm, yeah, reading it again I guess it sounds kind of, errr how do you say it?, aggressive? there is other word. I've worked as developer, I'm used to QA notices in that kind of tone. It's not wanting to pick up a fight with devs , it's just a quick and frank list of little annoyances. Nothing personal, you know?

OTOH you should see the kind of responses QA would get from me, sometimes, like "who cares?" or "are you on drugs? pass 'em on" . Of course face to face, on the bugtraq web we were all serious.

I wish to add that I saw some screenies of S1 and the UI seems much improved from that one.