With 0.17.x dropping on the development branch I wanted to disable my mods to try the current vanilla 0.17.xperience
Turns out, I have quite a few mods installed and the list is a patchwork of enabled/disabled and most of them are now out of date anyways. I found navigating my monstrous list of mods annoying and thought it could be improved by tweaking existing functionality. Yes I could just delete my mods but that is more going around a problem than it is solving it. Also this is technically multiple suggestions but i'd rather not make 3 threads for things so closely related.
I propose Increased functionality of the already New&Improved Mod Management GUI with 3 primary points. All are geared towards easier management of many and diverse installed mods, which may be from many authors, of inconsistent naming schemes and varied states of enabled.
- Sort currently enabled mods to the top. This can make it clear exactly what you actually have enabled at any given time. Giving it a sort arrow like we have for Name and Version would look consistent with the rest of the UI.
These points are implemented:[*]Search within installed mods. This functionality exists in the mod portal used for finding and installing mods and feels missed in mod management. The keywords I remember for an installed mod might be in the short description but not in the name.
[*]Add "Filter By Category" to mod management. We can filter by category in the online mod library when choosing mods to Install, could we get that filter in the mod management tab as well? Perhaps by way of bolding the mods that satisfy the category and bringing them to the top of the list? Instead of bolding, insert a dummy item to act as a separator?