Chat Window Realestate

I found that with i20, my chat window now, minimally, takes up about a third of the width of my screen. It wont shrink any smaller.

Anyone know if there is an option that can fix this?

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I have the same question. I can change the height - but not the width. If I changing to the old interface nothing's changing even. I hope they would fix this.

You could change the overall scale of that window using the /windowscale command.

This can work for some, but if you already had it scaled down, scaling it any more will cause it to become unreadable.

I can make the chat window wider, but the minimum width has increased. Dunno if this is WAI.

You can increase the font size in your chat windows, IIRC in the last tab of the options window.

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There is a chat font size in the graphical options screen. I'm pretty sure that doesn't resize the window although I haven't really played with it since the month after I joined so I could be mistaken.

Glad to know about windowscale. The space along the bottom of my screen is usually full.

yeah I did the same thing, but the fony size can only go up to 12 max for some reason.

The window is still way too large in width.

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Anyone else have an issue with the green in the classic ui team window? It seems to be about 2 or 3 shades brighter and is hurting my eyes. I also have team mates that are running healers and had team quit team because of this issue.

Toss me in with the "not impressed" crowd. The window takes up half the screen, and playing with the settings has just managed to make everything look crazy and awful.

And the classic look doesn't look classic. It looks terrible.

Yeah this was in beta and unfortunately didn't get fixed as I was hoping it would.

Please devs, allow us to shrink/resize the width of the window!

If anything, maybe have an option to "show tab numbers." So if that is turned on then you see the 1, 2, 3, 4 tab numbers and if you don't have that 'on' then those numbers aren't there (more real estate, can re-size, etc...).

Could always keep on bugging them until they actually fix it. I guess for now I'll just have to play with smaller chat windows and trays until they make it more manageable.

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Thanks for the tips in this thread. It kind of sucks having to scale the whole chat UI down just to shrink the window, but at least it's not intruding so rudely into my screen anymore. I hope this gets fixed at some point.

Aye, I am having similar problems, my first...okay, second reaction, (first being "ooh look, new zone load screens) to I20 was "omg, my chat window is fat!

After reading some of the tips here it sounds like I can minimize that a bit.. But here's hoping they let us scale its width as well, as it takes up far too much of the screen.

Then there's the "classic" party UI, still needs some work (and its not 'classic', what lies!)

I dunno if I'm the only one, but I can't tell the difference between a dead team mate, or one that is not in the same map. They both appear as a greyed out name, the only way for me to tell is to toggle the ally-buff portion of the window and see if they are listed in another zone or not.. Which is tedious to say the least.

Thank god for my 1080p (1920x1080) monitor, that's all I can say.

I bet that if I HAD to play this in safe mode for whatever reason this new size would take up half the screen. >.<

I was invited to a league tonite and all of a sudden a good fraction of my screen space was gone! This really irritated the hell out of me as you honestly can't get much bigger of a laptop screen than mine and I'm at the max rez for the screen as it is. Why do we have a separate team and league button when we can consolidate the league button to look like the team button? The LFG function is mildly confusing so I left it be. The 'new toon help' screen confused me too so now my main is likely screaming in some chat window I'm unaware of. Most of this wouldn't bug me if I had say a 21" screen, but really...why mess with the UI if you're not going to offer a full revert option?!?

One of the other side effects for changing the UI size is that effects all of it. This means your trays also get smaller as well as your insp window. But I really don't see why we have to take such drastic measures anyways just so we can see.

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