How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

[Yimboli]

sigh.

[Fyron]

Sigh? It was a legitimate question. If anyone has better suggestions, we can send 'em in to Malfador. The UI is quite clunky, overall.

(I do agree that the small pics should be used by default...)

[Wenin]

How about when you right click there is a submenu that you can change the size of the items?

simply clicking on the bar at the top should be a bonus/easter egg shortcut explained in the manual for those that read them. =)

[Captain Kwok]

Not another sub-menu! There already the cause of too many UI complaints!

[Wenin]

Then how about a setting within the Empires option.

[AngleWyrm]

Clicking unmarked areas of the screen as if they were buttons is by far the worst interface idea that has come up in a long long time. The same is true for right-clicking the text of the ship report.

The action of clicking something requires something specific to the task for which the clicking is being done.

A button marked "shrink me" is a good idea -- much better than clicking an undocumented area of the screen. Another would be to add an option under "Empire->Display Settings", where most of this kind of stuff is currently found.

[Fyron]

The issue with a "shrink me" button is that there are far too many things that could be done by adding a button, which would saturate the interface and possibly make it even worse.