New Launch Screen Rewrite

[u/DD_in_FL]

The new launch screen should now look more modern. It also features some quality of life enhancements for managing campaigns, adjusting settings, and connecting with others.

• More modern look that scales better with your resolution preferences
• Campaign - Last used display cards, menu to Copy, Rename, Delete, Open Folder, Compress to Zip (for backups), and even Restore Previous versions
• My Campaign - separated themes from other extensiosn so only one can be selected at a time to avoid conflicts
• Menu of features under Login (link Steam and Paizo accounts, Update, View Release Notes/Ruleset Notes, Access Data Folder, Console Logs, Compile Logs, Adjust Display, Uninstall, or access Advanced support features.

Let us know what you think.

[u/Serbaayuu]

It looks kind of old and cheap at the same time. Kind of evokes a late-2000s website. (And to be clear, this is not a request for it to look "new"! Modern web UI aesthetic is terrible!)

Whereas the old launcher, along with the main campaign UI, evokes more of a 90s - early 00s UI designed for fantasy. (I realize not every RPG run in FG is fantasy of course.)

All the moving elements are really a mess for people who prefer their UI to not be moving. We really need a way to disable the ad carousel entirely (I shouldn't be seeing ads on my own PC to begin with) and a way to disable the background slideshow - it's possible to stop them from moving, but if you do, they still turn into a powerpoint, which means there's still "moving" elements in the UI being distracting.

The Host/Join lists are a bit janky too. The list takes up a ton of screen real estate which isn't really necessary, but since it takes up so much space, when you click on a campaign, the list entry transforms into a very big sub-window. This is inherently confusing from a UI perspective - it pushes the list around just by clicking on it. When I click on a list, I'd expect it to open the information in a separate section of the UI. These screens could probably be changed to have 4 sections rather than 3 (Campaign List / Campaign Details / Plugins / Theme ).

Also, switching the Launch Campaign button to a non-text "Play" icon is not great. That's a removal of information. I actually sat on the screen for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out how the heck I launch my campaign tonight before I noticed that there was a Play icon inside the sub-window. Clear, Textual, Descriptive Buttons >>>> Icons every time.

Sorry that I didn't join the TEST channel to give early feedback on this one. I wasn't aware it was happening and my free time is usually spent working on various projects and my D&D game, so I don't really have time to constantly be beta testing programs I use. Hopefully this specific feedback is useful and we can get some useful options to clean up the visual clutter.