[Feedback] New Client Titlebar is Unintuitive

Hyrum Graff··23 votes·1,462 views

https://i.imgur.com/TF84wN0.jpg

It seems as though I'll be able to click and drag around the client anywhere inside the red box, but in reality, I can only do so inside the green box.

https://i.imgur.com/EXEA63S.jpg

######As a side note to the Boards team, I wish there were a better place for me to discuss this than Misc.

15 Comments

Wullf5 votes

Now that you mention it my cursor keeps changing into double arrow when I am in the upper bar (your red box). It also changes on edges of the whole client window. And I think that even when I am picking my champion I got this double arrow.

Am I the only one who got this problem?

Hyrum Graff3 votes

I've gotten that too, but I think it's a bug, not a functionality problem.

Lumus Avatar2 votes

That's just the computer herp-derping. happens all the time. play a game or close and re-open the program and it's gone. Lots of programs do this on windows machines at various times for no reason at all. Nothing to worry about.

Lumus Avatar3 votes

You can see difference in the background shading behind the client version indicating the top of the window. That's what I look at.

My real problem is that I now have to open my friends list every time I want to check if someone is in or out of game. I really liked being able to see it on the tab if I had an open chat with them. That seems like a simple oversight that I hope they fix soon.

Did they explain why the current free champ rotation does not appear in the bottom left as it was advertised in all the teasers pre-launch?

Hyrum Graff3 votes

You can see difference in the background shading behind the client version indicating the top of the window. That's what I look at.

Maybe you can; I can't.

My real problem is that I now have to open my friends list every time I want to check if someone is in or out of game. I really liked being able to see it on the tab if I had an open chat with them. That seems like a simple oversight that I hope they fix soon.

Agreed; why not make your own thread about it? That'll get a lot more visibility than a comment here.

Did they explain why the current free champ rotation does not appear in the bottom left as it was advertised in all the teasers pre-launch?

It does, in the launcher (not the client).

Lumus Avatar1 votes

Right, but their teasers showed the rotation in both the Patcher and on the landing page, and the landing page had the benefit of showing the champs stats if you clicked on their face.

Hyrum Graff1 votes

Didn't know that. Maybe they changed it, or it comes and goes.

Sir ArmaMalum3 votes

I was actually going to make a post about this exact thing later today, glad I wasn't the only one who was a bit annoyed by it.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Heh, that annoyed me too, but I didn't think of starting a discussion about it, thanks :3

Hyrum Graff2 votes

:)

A Boojum Snark2 votes

As a side note to the Boards team, I wish there were a better place for me to discuss this than Misc.

Yeah... I keep having things I want to post about the client/launcher itself and there isn't anywhere good. I also agree about the title bar area.

jQuery1 votes

What about the forums?

EDIT: Sry, I just checked u don't have them.

Fisk1 votes

I think visually, it's worth sacrificing clarity. I don't really think it's to difficult and if they changed the color patterns it wouldn't look good. That's just me, maybe you all feel differently

Hyrum Graff1 votes

if they changed the color patterns it wouldn't look good.

I TOTALLY agree with you here. I like the new look of the title bar MUCH better than the old one.

I think visually, it's worth sacrificing clarity

Why does it have to be a sacrifice? Why can't we have the current look, but be able to move the window by dragging anywhere in the red box?

Fisk1 votes

That is very true! Or maybe make the top highlight when you mouse over it to show you it's special :P

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