Redesign mainmenu [See proposal]

[rubenwardy]

A thread to discuss general UX issues with the main menu.

List of concepts:

• tacotexmex: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• Freeminer, v-tabs: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• rubenwardy, v-tabs: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
  • Alternate styling: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• numberZero: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• pauloue: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• rubenwardy figma mockup (per-game menu design): Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• Zughy + G1ov4, pixelart: Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)
• Zughy experiments start from here Redesign mainmenu [See proposal] #6733 (comment)

Supersedes #3818

Although not directly related to the main menu, aren't the buttons for things like "Play game", "Configure", "New", etc, the default Irrlight buttons? I feel like those were built into Irrlicht for prototyping. If we change the main menu then those ugly buttons should go, at least I think so.

[ThomasMonroe314]

This may not be "Main Menu" but CBugDCoder and I had an idea for moving the sound menu into a options menu and adding things like FOV, shaders, etc to that menu.

[C1ffisme]

Relevant: #5810

Albeit that has to do with problems effecting all formspecs in general, while this has to do with main menu design.

[ThomasMonroe314]

Just curious, but does anyone use the Mods tab and what is it even there for?

There's a Mods tab?

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[NathanSalapat]

@ThomasMonroe314 @jastevenson303 The mod tab gives a list of all the mods you have installed, giving information and shows the screenshot, if the mod has one.

[ThomasMonroe314]

I know that, but you can just as easily either open up a file explorer, or make a world and open up the configuration.

[rubenwardy]

It was added at the same time as the mod store, and wasn't removed when the mod store was removed

[ThomasMonroe314]

I figured that was the case, I'm just wondering if it is necessary to keep around.

[tacotexmex]

I think the main menu begs to be redesigned with much larger content areas, considering

• Content DB integration brings much more data that need to fit
• There's a font size feature that currently doesn't work with larger than default sizes without the UI looking like garbage.

[tacotexmex]

Just throwing something out there: