- "Create Game" box:
    - There's now a distinctive split between hosting a server and
      playing an offline game. This choice is no longer made as a final
      step by pressing one of the two "Start" buttons, but is now
      determined from the "Create Game" dialog box menu that also
      affects how this "Create Game" box looks like. When "offline"
      mode is selected, the options that only make sense for a server
      hosting are hidden. The values stored in those options are,
      however, remembered and will be saved in the configuration if user
      chooses to switch their mode back to "host a server". There is
      some visual feedback provided to inform the user in which mode
      the box currently is: the title of the box is directly related
      and also the text of the "Start game" button adjusts.
    - Another (initially invisible) change splits the behavior of
      the game executable selector combo box. Each of the 3 modes:
      "Play offline", "Host a server" and "Configure remote game"
      now track separate game executables. This is to accomodate
      for source-ports that use more than one executable.
    - Move bottom buttons of the "Create Game" dialog box to menu bar
      actions. The menu bar is now presented at the top of that dialog
      box just like in the main window. Game configuration, program
      configuration and launch mode can now be picked from that menu.
    - Rename "Misc." tab in the Create Game box to "Server".

• The bold "Host server!" button seemed out of place/unexpected at first glance in my opinion. I generally do not expect to find bold/strong words with an exclamation in buttons (unless it's danger). I do prefer the old text copy, which was "Start server". I would consider alternative forms of conveying the message, such as an icon on the button.
  
  • It could be the game engine icon for "Host server!" / "Play!", for example. (Initially I thought the Doom marines icon, but we can't use that on free distros and I quickly figured out the game engine icon makes more sense.)
    
  • Command line can stay as is or have an icon representing a terminal.
  
  
• For "Play!" in offline mode, the previous complaint might be less disturbing here. I like the wording (more than the previous "Play offline").
  
• Where is "Configure remote game"? I can't seem to locate this. If this was meant to be invisible, okay.
  
• Re: renaming "Misc." to "Server": Would naming it "Multiplayer" or "Online" stand out better?
  
  • Caveat: Renaming it again may create confusion, because Chocolate Doom servers can be multiplayer/online but the tab will be unavailable.
    
  • Else I'd keep it as "Misc."
  
  
• The "Mode" and "Settings" dropdown menus are a welcome addition to reduce the clutter.
  
• People usually hate change, like change left-aligning the "Host Server!" / "Play!" and "Command line" buttons.

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The bold "Host server!" button seemed out of place/unexpected at first glance in my opinion.

* It could [show instead] the game engine icon for "Host server!" / "Play!"

* Command line can stay as is or have an icon representing a terminal.

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Where is "Configure remote game"? I can't seem to locate this. If this was meant to be invisible, okay.

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Re: renaming "Misc." to "Server": Would naming it "Multiplayer" or "Online" stand out better?

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People usually hate change, like change left-aligning the "Host Server!" / "Play!" and "Command line" buttons.

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For purposes of consistency, I'm not sure if the window title should be prefixed with "Create Game – ". We generally prefix many window titles with "Doomseeker – ", however Create Game was always an exception and was always simply "Create Game". What do you think?

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Give us Ctrl + S / Ctrl + O hotkeys for saving/loading game configuration files.

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Replace "Close" button with Apply / Cancel / Close? Be aware I'm not convinced what the context for this would be, there's a risk of this becoming more confusing / complex than necessary.

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One nice future improvement may be adding an appropriate icon (maybe a folder icon) to the left of "Load game configuration" in the new settings dropdown menu.

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TBH I didn't even think of it. I'll scan the Create Game code for the presence of various titles and prefix them with "Doomseeker -" wherever appropriate as this will be more consistent with the other parts of the program.

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With the main menu being present now it should be easy as Qt should auto-wire that. I only hope it won't clash with the same shortcuts in the main window.

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Indeed.

• Can we keep the "Play!" and "Start server" buttons at the bottom with an icon? As I said, people generally hate big change.
  
  • There's icons on the "Add" and "Remove" buttons. My original suggestion was to use that approach for "Play!" and "Start server" buttons.
    
  • How many times in Doomseeker's main window have you pressed anything but the big refresh button or Create Game at top left? I haven't.
    
  • The big "Play" button in the new Create Game toolbar design is already associated with Demo Manager in main window. This will likely be confusing.
  
  
• Close button: Same as above. I'm not sure what removing it benefits. At very least an "close window" menu item would be possibly needed, if removed.

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One thing to consider is that all of the menu options can be moved to the toolbar

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Borders and extra padding have been removed from the main tab widget making the widgets in the box stick closer to its edges.