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As suggested by Dominik, I'll post this as a bug report:

Mods that have an icon next to their name are listed after the alphabetically sorted mods in mod settings menus and in the mods manager:
Among the mods I'd installed, only Rocket-Silo Construction had icons as part of the name. So I figured I'd try to install all other mods released by its author. This is what the new list in the mods manager looks like: Having Big-Monsters and Explosive Biters below the others seems awkward but can be explained by the icon before the name. When there's only an icon after the name, however, it looks wrong. Anyway, seems like these mods can't be sorted correctly because the names contain rich text.

Thanks for the report however as the primary person who manages mods and works on the features put in for mods I'm going to say: play stupid games win stupid prizes.

I'm not going to implement some multiple hundreds of lines of code to handle sorting things like this. If mods put rich text bull shit in their mod names then they can deal with the fallout. Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 6:25 pm

I'm not going to implement some multiple hundreds of lines of code to handle sorting things like this. If mods put rich text bull shit in their mod names then they can deal with the fallout. Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

What about some middle-ground:
Strip the rich text / images / colors / etc out of the text and sort with that? Stripping out [] with regex shouldn't be too hard.

This would do a 'good enough' sort, esp. given that most images happen to be at the end of the name.


Alternatively, you could add another field to info.json for authors to put the clean name to be used for sorting. If omitted, it would just fall back to the current sort.

That's what I meant by 100s of lines of code to handle it.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 6:25 pm

Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

Better kill it now before the plague spreads. Before it kicks us back into the 90's.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 6:25 pm

Thanks for the report however as the primary person who manages mods and works on the features put in for mods I'm going to say: play stupid games win stupid prizes.

I'm not going to implement some multiple hundreds of lines of code to handle sorting things like this. If mods put rich text bull shit in their mod names then they can deal with the fallout. Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

I vote for disabling it for mod names.
It looks already awful and it got just started.
Imagine whole mod names consisting only of this icons...

steinio wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 9:21 pm

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 6:25 pm

Thanks for the report however as the primary person who manages mods and works on the features put in for mods I'm going to say: play stupid games win stupid prizes.

I'm not going to implement some multiple hundreds of lines of code to handle sorting things like this. If mods put rich text bull shit in their mod names then they can deal with the fallout. Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

I vote for disabling it for mod names.
It looks already awful and it got just started.
Imagine whole mod names consisting only of this icons...

+1

I was surprised after noticing that mod list is going rainbow/picture style.
Another vote to remove rich text from mod names.

eradicator wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 7:39 pm

Better kill it now before the plague spreads. Before it kicks us back into the 90's.

That picture must be fake: In the 90s, websites used <marquee>, <blink>, and flashing backgrounds!

About rich text in mod names: I think it's all about the right measure. Used sparingly, it could be used to some effect -- but there is a real danger that such a feature will be abused, and overused. Actually, rich text in mod names would only make sense (because that is the only places where it would be seen) in the mod manager/mod settings menus, right? But there, it breaks stuff, namely sorting. So I'm not sure how to argue for keeping it enabled …

Yeah, ban it. It's ugly af.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 6:25 pm

Or I can disable it for mod names to be sure people don't do it.

+1

+2 for disabling RT

I want use rich text for localization.
If some mod developer did the mistake we can just to write to him if we really want it:

• ~"Hey, your rich text breaks mods sorting in the mod list. Please, change your rich text or to make it better."
• or simpler to send to him a link on this topic
• or (for example) to create a special link/information for mod developers, players about rich text in the mod list or somewhere else

Have you tried translating your mod name with a locale.cfg?

I will show you fixing
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/mrg4sZO

If you want the font contrast fixed you should submit a bug report instead of abusing rich text. That way it's fixed for everybody.

Do we need to remove the feature a result of a mod developer mistake?

ZwerOxotnik wrote: ↑

Wed May 22, 2019 5:18 pm

Do we need to remove the feature a result of a mod developer mistake?

Apparently.

ZwerOxotnik wrote: ↑

Wed May 22, 2019 5:18 pm

Do we need to remove the feature a result of a mod developer mistake?

I assume it was removed to preserve consistently readable menus for everyone.

eradicator wrote: ↑

Wed May 22, 2019 5:26 pm

I assume it was removed to preserve consistently readable menus for everyone.

Players write bug reports to me when I made a mistake in my mod, but no one did in this case.