Worker assignment window layout enhancement

[Thodor12]

Prerequisites

• [x] I am running the latest alpha version of MineColonies for my Minecraft version.
• [x] I checked the MineColonies/Structurize wiki and made sure that my issue is not covered there.
• [x] I made sure that this change request is not a duplicate of any existing change request.

Context

• Minecraft Version: 1.19.2
• MineColonies Version: 1.0.1248-ALPHA
• Related Mods and their Versions: N/A

Is your feature request related to a problem?

After some discussion in Discord, we came to the conclusion that the worker assignment GUI is not laid out particularly well, also it's not clear what the meaning of certain labels in that GUI are (mainly looking at the green and yellow texts for primary and secondary skills).

Enhancement or Change description

In an effort to improve this GUI, me and a couple of other members have had a lengthy discussion and have come up with a new design. (This is only a mock, not the final design, adjustments can still be made to this which are not reflected on the image)

Main points to note about this new design:

• All controls would be shifted over to the left, allowing for more vertical space to be used up by the citizens list.
• Headers in several places to give a better understanding of what we're looking at.
• All of the colours and bold/italic is gone, which removes the misunderstanding of the meaning of those.
• Skills are clearly denoted what the primary/secondary are.
• Skills are laid out in a table format, which makes it in generally easier to read versus 1 long string

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[anonymous563]

Also, to the person that implements this but not necessarily in Thodor's image, right-align numbers vertically please!

[Talyda]

And try and make the stat table four columns so it's not so (my word of the day apparently) BIG!

[anonymous563]

Maybe there's space for "sort by name," "sort by current job," or "sort by stats"?

and color the primary skill on the left and under each colonist? :P lazy edit for example for only one skill:

[Talyda]

In the big long discussion, colours were decided against =) And I'd say no to sorting, just because I don't think it needs more information on there making it all even bigger =P

[anonymous563]

Sorting in the sense of which citizen is at the top of the list, with the sorting options on the left under/near "show employed"

[uecasm]

I am not a fan of... basically any of these changes.

[Thodor12]

I am not a fan of... basically any of these changes.

Could you state why?

The reasoning behind this change in the first place is because of no accessibility kept in mind. It's currently not known (without prior knowledge) what the green and yellow value stand for.

[MotionlessTrain]

More information and motivation about this feature request can be found in the discord discussion

[IchHabeHunger54]

Adding my two cents to this, I like the basic idea. However, I would suggest three changes:

• Move the job selection to the top. I'd imagine something similar to 1.19.4's new Create World screen, with the tab-like buttons.
• Move everything else that is on the left to the right side. This is to follow the design principle of "top/left navigation, bottom/right extra options".
• Make the Show Employed button a checkbox instead. I don't know if vanilla or BlockUI provide checkboxes by default, but there's definitely existing checkboxes out there (I think the Quark config has them).

This is a quick mockup of the changes' effects: (please don't judge my drawing skills, tyvm)