Reader UI of the Week: Pathanos' clean and simple setup

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8-16-2011 @ 7:33PM

paul said...

that UI is still really messy. if you want a real clean UI you might want to talk to someone who knows what they are doing.

8-16-2011 @ 8:07PM

Neirin said...

He's actually most of the way to a clean UI. At least, he has the right addons and just needs to tinker with size/layout. Myself, I would shrink the minimap and chat box quite a bit, keep recount hidden unless reviewing a fight, and move the unit frames into the upper left (since that area is completely empty). Either that or use a buff monitoring addon to move the buffs over to the left.

I'd also probably limit the number of debuffs displayed on the target unit frame, but that's a style vs. completeness of info issue. Once you go beyond 2 lines of debuffs I'm not sure how much info you can glean at a glance, but restricting the debuff display does mean you lose info. Resizing the map and changing the debuffs would also probably fix the DBM timer issue, certainly any tweaking would be minor.

8-17-2011 @ 7:33AM

Supapaw said...

I agree with you. The title ("simple and clean") doesn't fit with the picture at all.

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