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06-01-10, 09:08 AM   #8
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Yeah -- two things that played into the new unit frame layout, heavily, was the need to account for the new Boss frames and the number of complaints I've had about the minimap and the focus frame sharing space.

So, I had to shorten up the space for the old frames to make room for the new ones. The bottom of the left side (in the solo panel) now holds the focus frame and the bottom of the right side holds the boss frames.

The second issue that comes into play is the complaints about the raid and party unit frames being spread across both sides of the minimap, so the new panels put the player and targeting info on the left side and the party/raid info on the right side when not in solo mode.

This means all of your unit info -- player, pet, focus, target, ToT and boss frames are on the left in one group and all of the party frames are grouped together on the right so healers don't have to try and watch unit frames on both side of the panel.

Unfortunately, this leaves me with a little less space since I had to add the boss frames and not "reuse" the minimap area. That's going to be the biggest complaint I think.

The thing I'm really anxious to hear about is performance in instances... that's the big issue I'm trying to address is the FPS leak problem.
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