left pane grouping ideas

[emptyrivers]

i think most folks have gotten used to the loaded/standby, then not loaded grouping now. so it's a great time to think about mucking it up again!

i have a few ideas, presented (initially) without context:

• sort auras by "relevance" ie loaded auras at the top, auras which could easily be loaded (in the right zone, group type, but not yet in combat, etc) next, then auras which could be loaded but probably won't happen in the next minute (wrong spec, wrong dungeon difficulty, etc), then finally auras that'll never load (load never, wrong class/faction/player name, etc)
• highlight (somehow) auras which were loaded "recently" eg last combat or encounter

[emptyrivers]

perhaps these ideas work better as filters? instead of changing the order in which things are displayed in left pane

[emptyrivers]

another one:

• highlight aura which have been unloaded for a long time, that could perhaps solve Maybe we should prompt users to delete old crap #4912

[emptyrivers]

the first idea is really a refinement of our existing setup. i talked about it some last year in the regulars channel on discord https://discord.com/channels/172440238717665280/215496276609990656/1239650689723142307

(sorry to any onlookers who can't see that)

[InfusOnWoW]

Yeah, I thjink there's room for improvement in tweaking this.

One idea that I'm not sure whether it's worth considering, is to make the categorization based on last used information. That is, track when auras are loaded, and if an aura wasn't used in "ages", it is not relevant anymore. That would potentially also enable us to recommend deletion to the user, as suggested in another ticket.