Overlapping info boxes

[hoho]

Currently, when hovering over logistics requester chest there is a TON of information on screen, most of what is irrelevant.
(1920x1200 resolution, windowed, UI scale at 120%).

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Right above the warehouse icon is minimap and on the bottom you can see the Windows status bar. There is relatively little room left for useful information


While it's nice to have that information I'd say a lot of it shouldn't be shown when hovering logistics chests.

I'd suggest we could only see bot count and logistic system contents when hovering roboports. That alone would clean up a ton of screen space. A more complex but more useful solution would be to add a "virtual" chest that displays the logistics system contents and perhaps even allow people to request stuff directly from that chest but that's probably an idea that deserves a whole different topic.

Another thing I've noticed, especially in modded games, is that resistances can take a LOT of screen space as well. IIRC it was DyTech that added some 5+ extra damage types and buildings that defined them, had most of the information bar taken up by showing those resistances. I'd suggest we wouldn't see resistances at all when hovering over built items but that we could see them when hovering over recipes and items in inventories.

[aubergine18]

Moving the entity icon to the left and then displaying some infos to the right of it would save a lot of space. For example, it's name, health and last updated by could be shown to right of entity icon, particularly if some of the captions are replaced with icons.

[Someguy12121]

Looks like info boxes simply overlap each other based on their layer that they have been programmed in. The issue though is that this leads to some details being obstructed or simply overflowing off the screen.

[ssilk]

This issue is well known. They currently rework the GUI for 0.15.

[ickputzdirwech]

[ick] Merged two topics about the right side info box overflowing of screen.

[ssilk]

Hm. I think this special case of overlapping happens only on very narrow screens now with the GUI-elements made bigger. Or so. Dunno exactly. Hard to figure out, I think.

But the main point is: They have moved the right equipment indicator to the left. I would move it to implemented, if there is no other issue I have overseen yet.

[ickputzdirwech]

I decided against moving it to implemented, because the issue that the info box might be too long to be fully visible on screen still persists (see the picture in the first post). Even though they moved the weapons slots and the GUI changed a lot.