WoWInterface - Tullamods : WoW 3.0'd

WoW 3.0'd
By: Tuller - 10-22-08 07:01 AM
The Second Great Sundering (the first being WoW 2.0) has happened. It'll be interesting to see what the addon landscape looks like after the dust has finally settled. In the ideal world, all Bongos2 users will move on to Dominos/Bartender4, and all Bongos3/Trinity/Flexbar3 users will move on to Macaroon. Anyway, here's what I learned on patch day: People liked Bongos3 (actually, I knew this already :P). A lot of people were still using Bongos2. Dominos is really a Bongos2 replacement more than it is a Bongos3 one, so those Bongos3 users who were really using all of the features of Bongos3 are now a bit lost. I had a lot of usability tweaks to make to Dominos, hence the need for 1.6.x and 1.7.x. I think I've gotten most of the usability problems out of the way, but probably will make a few more tweaks before I'm done. A lot of people don't read the full addon description before downloading stuff. Evidence: everyone who asked about out of range coloring Blizzard broke more things than I thought. Evidence: LOD addons & Vista users. And here are my plans for the future: A Bagnon rewriteish. Need to fix a lot of display bugs, and I think redo Bagnon_Forever a bit. The return of Sage in some form. I'll likely be based off Dominos bar code (Sage 1.0 and 2.0 were based off of/were the basis for the bar code in Bongos1 and Bongos2). Major new things will be a higher priority in display for your buffs/debuffs, along with some way of displaying threat. More usability improvements to Dominos. Bartender4 has a good model for show states that I'll probably implement in Dominos. I also like the custom state header implementation, too, but I'll probably not port that over. Sliders will likely be added for things like max number of action buttons per bar, and number of action bars. I just need to remember to add a prompt telling users that adjusting the setting will reset their bar layout. I'm also considering including a red range type addon in the download, not so much for the people who cannot read, but more to address the realish problem of not being able to adjust the OOR color. More Combuctor features. I'll be refining/rewriting the set api, adding in configuration options for how and when Combuctor should automatically display.