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Inventory cleanup script for KoLmafia
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manager: Add item type column in cleanup table #86

Open pastelmind opened 3 years ago

pastelmind commented 3 years ago

With > 10k items in the game, it's difficult to remember what each item does. Showing the item types in the table would help this.

One problem is that horizontal space is already highly contested; cramming an extra column won't be easy. We could use icons or emojis, but I often find them more confusing than simple text. I believe short (4-8 characters), recognizable keywords would be better.

Some suggestions on item type keywords (❓ indicates tentative ideas)

Requested by Irrat in the KoLmafia forum thread.

Note: It would also be nice to have a filter for item types--perhaps a select menu?

libraryaddict commented 3 years ago

Untradeable.

As for icons, possibly use ones from kol itself?

pastelmind commented 3 years ago

I'm not fond of icons/emojis for denoting an item's category. They can be confusing or ambiguous, esp. when dealing with non-universal concepts. For example, what icon would clearly and unambiguously represent a "spleen item"?

If you can suggest a set of icons/emojis that are clear and obvious, I'm all ears.


"untradeable" is technically a flag, and is too broad to be considered an item "type". There are both tradeable and untradeable equipment, consumables, hatchlings, etc. Same for "quest item" and "IotM".

It still makes sense to allow filtering items by flags by flags (tradeability/quest item/iotm/...), though. You could make a new feature request issue describing such a feature.