New menu design for Minetest

[jp]

EDIT : See here.

[Krock]

If it's Lua side only - could you write a pull request for it? :)

[jp]

If it's Lua side only - could you write a pull request for it? :)

Trust me, I spent all my day on it... for a crappy result with the formspecs. Otherwise I would not post a new topic and push a PR instead. So I prefer let that to more talentuous people ;)

[Inocudom]

Lua-side, not that hard to do... Please devs, change the current sad list for something like that :

That formspec is from Freeminer, for those that are curious.

[Dragonop]

I don't really like it, it doesn't fit with the current Minetest menu style, (that I love) ¿Maybe something more minimalistic?

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[jp]

To complement this topic :

[Esteban]

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[Krock]

Looks nice but the grey style should be kept, if this gets added.

[bru]

Kind of a quick design I made. Bold effect is for hovered buttons, btw.
Clicking singleplayer could open a panel that would be a world select/create screen, multiplayer would show the list, etc. Settings would be for game settings and texture packs, etc.
The background (in theory) could be changed by texture packs, the blur effect could be done via shaders or something.

[rubenwardy]

Minetest, not Minetest-c55

[Evergreen]

I agree. The menu isn't very well organized, and imo it doesn't look very good either.

[Amaz]

I love the examples that have come up on this thread! They look really good!

[Calinou]

I like the image flags idea. I think more servers should be visible on the list at once (higher window). When a server is full, its player count could be written in orange, grey if empty.

[Vazon]

Why not have it where in the settings to make it where the player can determine all of this. Examples: Max Servers Visible on List = 1-25, and for the menu let the player pick the style they like best??? I think give the players the freedom to choose what their game looks like would be quite interesting.

[benedict424]

I want a way to change the ook ing the settings menu.

[Dragonop]

I don't really like it, it doesn't fit with the current Minetest menu style, (that I love) ¿Maybe something more minimalistic?

multiplayer icons.png

(if someone asks, i made those icons :D)

[Linuxdirk]

I imagine a fully themeable GUI (through texture packs).

[stormchaser3000]

I imagine a fully themeable GUI (through texture packs).

like what freeminer did?

[Linuxdirk]

like what freeminer did?

I don’t know what Freeminer did, but I think of SVG images (better scaling) for everything visible in the menu … and a way to freely position and scaling them on a percent basis (maximum flexibility when scaling) – But having PNGs for everything would be fine, too :)

[jp]

scaling them on a percent basis (maximum flexibility when scaling)

Relevant idea, but not possible with the formspecs. Scaling them is a pain.

[jp]

EDIT : See here.

[Evergreen]

YES

[twoelk]

cool !
so now we would need a skin chooser in the main menu to fully enjoy this ... or is there one and I missed it?

[jp]

so now we would need a skin chooser in the main menu to fully enjoy this ... or is there one and I missed it?

I'm working on a dropdown list for alternating dark or light themes, in the settings tab. But not sure to succeed...

[Krock]

PR on GitHub for this please. (Style 1)
This looks much better than the current.

EDIT: Okay. The bg_tab_*.png images are not optimal because the tabs can have other dimensions in other languages.

[bru]

I don't really like it.

The gradients look too harsh, the logo seems meh, and the fonts are still really thin.

What happened to this concept? http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/ ... 5b61yl.png

[Linuxdirk]

What happened to this concept? http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/ ... 5b61yl.png

Hopefully buried. I don’t like it at all. Looks like from the eighties :)

But still: The menu stuff needs a complete re-write in my opinion …

[Krock]

What happened to this concept? http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/ ... 5b61yl.png

Looks like a Super-Mario game.
The idea is good but it does not fit to Minetest.

[rubenwardy]

I like it, but it is too over exposed.

[4aiman]

I don't think that this 'new' look has changed anything but BG. So I don't care if it is to be/already was added.
That one from the 90-ties (Mario hit Japan only in 1986, duh) better suits my taste.

But that oldie doesn't really change one more important thing than a BG: the meaning of "*CPD" is not clear for a newcomer.
FM has tooltips AND icons. MT thinks that its users are red-eyed people of Linux...

So...
Menus-shmenus...

Bring back the localization Sapier had devoid us of, fix utf8 (FM has done it long ago. In fact the only thing was needed was to check every place where a conversion happens) and use some MC-like font (there are many of those with CC-BY-SA licence).
If you want I can make one myself with ENG and CYR symbols and release it under WTFPL so MT would be able to add more characters for French, Deutsch, Japanese katakana & hiragana, etc.
Then and only then one should change the look of the main menu.

Note, that's only my opinion (ppl tend to thing I'm clamoring smth).