Secondary Menus Suggestions

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Woof! is a continuation of the Boom/MBF bloodline of Doom source ports.

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Secondary Menus Suggestions #1896

Open OpenRift412 opened 1 month ago

OpenRift412 commented 1 month ago

Good job with the secondary menus implementation. I have some ideas and suggestions that could further make use of this feature. Note, these suggestions would essentially be the final nail in the coffin for the old Boom-style Options menu.

My suggestions are as follows:

With the removal of the gyro tab, a new tab can be added in its place called "Gameplay", adding the following as secondary menus:
- Doom Compatibility
- Weapons
- Enemies
"Status Bar/HUD" and "Automap" would be moved to be secondary menus under the "Display" tab.
Lastly, the "Mouse" tab could be renamed to "Controls", with the "Key Bindings" menu made into a secondary menu under that.
With all these changes, the options button on the main menu would go directly to the "General" options menu, with the header now using the M_OPTTTL lump instead of M_GENERL

So with all that said, would this be a design worth pursuing?

rfomin commented 1 month ago

That's an interesting idea! It would require another reorganization of the menu, for example we have too many items in “Display” right now. Also “Status Bar/HUD” is quite big with its own tabs, but maybe we can shrink it a bit if we switch to the ID24 SBARDEF standard.

OpenRift412 commented 1 month ago

That's an interesting idea! It would require another reorganization of the menu, for example we have too many items in “Display” right now. Also “Status Bar/HUD” is quite big with its own tabs, but maybe we can shrink it a bit if we switch to the ID24 SBARDEF standard.

The "Display" tab seems to have the least about of items in it from what I can tell. Is there something I'm missing here?

rfomin commented 1 month ago

The "Display" tab seems to have the least about of items in it from what I can tell. Is there something I'm missing here?

Haha, sorry, I didn't visit "Display" for while 😄

ceski-1 commented 1 month ago

So with all that said, would this be a design worth pursuing?

I don't think any major changes are going to happen in the short-term since the menu system is challenging to work with. However, if you want to explore some menu layouts, make a copy of this diagram and play around with it (you'll have to create a Figma account). It should help give you an idea of how challenging it is to juggle all the different menu items in a halfway sane and logical manner.