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Kwp17pitts22:11, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
This is much more handy for to find information.

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9yz20:56, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Any chance someone could add Hammer++ Hammer++ to the list of map editors? The template is way too confusing for me to edit.

Delete as problematic

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Lxm617:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Smaller See also sections are far better than big navboxes.

Don't spam completely irrelevant tools everywhere...

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THE OWL2:31, 9 April 2023 (UTC+7)(edited)
{{Software page}} will solve this problem by adding category navigation, similar to Steam. For now, just be patient, because at the moment this is the only good way to find other useful (or not) tools.

Colour Coding Problem

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Cvoxalury11:56, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
The colour coding in this category (first and foremost the third party subcategory) is really overdone.

If you think it makes things easier to read and navigate - no, it doesn't.

If it's meant for quick-glance recognition and association - nope, it doesn't work.

There's too many colours, some of them are dark on dark background, others obviously jump out more, but I don't see a pattern for it (like, this tool is bright because it's better than all paler ones).

Numerous icons don't really matter (Entspy's is just Java icon? Sparc is some rectangle? Several of them just become pixely blobs? Several more just do fine without an icon?)

Suggestion: Keeping them as simple links next to icons is both okay and quite enough.

P. S. This is a part of an ongoing trend on this wiki that bothers me as a user more and more. The leaning into "more icons", "more colours", "more banners", it makes all the text more jumpy before the eyes and less legible, speaking as someone with vision disability.

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Noug4at20:27, 5 December 2023 (UTC+7:30)
To be honest, I agree with you, but I myself have recently become too interested in this, creating many of templates for CMD components. I think all this can be simplified (deleted) and the really useless templates removed.

I also agree that some icons don't really make sense, for example adding unofficial icons (for Java programs) is a rather strange solution, unnecessary.

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Polish Mafia Financier15:30, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
me like cause it look pretty
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Equalizer10:31, 5 December 2023 (UTC−7)
Its confusing! So many icon templates with a munch of different colors makes everything hard to read. Icon templates should be only for games or important tools like GCFscape, not random texture program #793