Quality of Life

Small quality of life features for WoW Forever, in one addon.

Quality of Life bundles the little things you'd otherwise install five addons for: a smaller 3D viewport, action bars that grow the other way, square action buttons without borders, class-colored health bars, junk selling and repairs at merchants, quests accepted and turned in for you, IDs and vendor prices in tooltips, a square minimap, dungeon entrances, boats and zeppelins on the world map, and switches to hide UI pieces you never click. Everything is set up in the game's own options window. There's no minimap button.

It's made for WoW Forever and also runs on retail (Midnight).

Features

Merchant

• Sell junk automatically: every grey item in your bags is sold when you open a merchant. The chat tells you how many items went and for how much.
• Repair automatically: your equipment is repaired at every merchant who can repair.
• Use guild funds: repairs come out of the guild bank first, as far as your guild lets you withdraw. If that doesn't cover everything, your own gold pays the rest.

Quests

• Accept quests automatically: every quest an NPC offers, and every quest a group member shares.
• Turn in quests automatically: finished quests are turned in when you talk to the quest giver. A quest with rewards to choose from, or one that costs gold, stays open for you to decide.

Hold Shift while talking to an NPC to do everything yourself that time.

Tooltips

• IDs: spell, item, buff and debuff, NPC, quest, currency and achievement IDs in their tooltips.
• Vendor price: what an item sells for, everywhere, not just while a merchant is open. For a stack in your bags you see the whole stack's price and the price of one.

Interface

• Hide the system bar: the micro menu (character, spellbook, …, game menu). Your key bindings still open everything, and in a vehicle the buttons still show on the vehicle bar.
• Hide the bag bar: the backpack and bag slots. Bag key bindings keep working.
• Show the sort button on combined bags: adds the sort (clean up) button next to the search box of the combined bag.

Chat

• Hide the social button on top of the chat window.
• Hide the other chat buttons: the chat menu, channel, voice chat and text to speech buttons.
• Hide the combat log: the Combat Log tab leaves the chat window. The combat log keeps running, so addons that read it still work.
• Names in class color: player names in chat take the color of their class, in every channel.

Minimap

• Square minimap, framed in the bronze of Forever's round minimap or with a thin black line. Addons that put buttons around the minimap and ask for its shape place them along the square.
• Zone text above or below the minimap, centered on the map's edge instead of in the bar at the top.
• Zone text, clock and coordinates in class color. The zone text normally shows the color for friendly, hostile or contested territory.
• Font size of the zone text and the clock, from 9 to 24 or the game's own. With a larger font the clock's button grows with it, and the rows above and below the minimap make room.
• Clock, addon compartment, tracking button and Forever's day and night icon: each can move to a row above or below the minimap (left, center or right), or be hidden. The tracking button and the day and night icon can also sit inside the map: in a corner, or in the middle of its top or bottom edge. Things in the same spot sit side by side; with something below the minimap, the coordinates move under it.
• Hide the calendar button.
• Hide the coordinates under the minimap.

World map

• Dungeon and raid entrances: marked on the zone and continent maps. Point at one to see its name. Blackrock Mountain's dungeons show on both Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes.
• Boats, zeppelins and portals: the harbors and zeppelin towers, the portal between Darnassus and Rut'theran Village and the Deeprun Tram (zeppelins and the tram get icons of their own in the style of the boat's). Point at one to see where it goes; click it and the map of that place opens. Forever's new routes are there too: the boat from Stormwind Harbor, the stop at Southshore, the boat between Tanaris and the Riverglades and the airships to Zephras Isle.

The places come from Forever's own game data, so these options only show on Forever. On retail, the default map marks dungeon entrances itself.

Unit frames

• Health bars in class color: the health bar of the player, target, target of target, focus and focus target frames takes the class color of the unit it shows, each frame switched on separately. The bar keeps the shading of the default green bar. Units without a clear class, like most NPCs (and the player frame while you're in a vehicle), keep the default bar.

Chat commands

• /rl reloads the interface, as a short form of /reload. It's only added when neither the game nor another of your addons already uses /rl; then theirs stays.

Viewport

Draws the game world in a smaller area and fills the margins with a color of your choice, so chat, action bars or unit frames at the screen edges no longer cover the world. Set each margin (top, bottom, left, right) in screen pixels; the world always keeps at least a quarter of the screen. The margins stay when you hide the interface with Alt+Z.

Action Bars

Reverse the direction buttons fill a bar, separately for every bar and both directions:

• Vertical: on a bar with several rows, the first row moves from the bottom to the top (or the other way round).
• Horizontal: button 1 starts at the right end of the row instead of the left.

Works for action bars 1 to 8, the stance bar and the pet bar, and keeps working after you change a bar in Edit Mode.

No bar paging with Shift+1-6: the keys that switch the main action bar to another page (Shift+1 to Shift+6, or whatever you bound to them) act like the same key without Shift instead, so Shift+1 presses action button 1 and macros can check for Shift with [mod:shift]. Your saved key bindings stay as they are; turn the option off and the keys page again.

Hide button borders: the buttons of action bars 1 to 8, the stance bar and the pet bar lose their frame, and the icons are square (like HideActionBarBorders). Pointing at a button, pressing it, an active button, the red flash of auto attack and the green glow of an equipped item light up as squares, with the game's classic button textures; the cooldown swipe covers the whole icon. The casting animation on the buttons is left out, since it is drawn for the round frame. For icons without the dark edge some of them have, use an icon pack like Clean Icons - Mechagnome Edition.

Settings

Esc > Options > AddOns > Quality of Life, or type /qol (or /qualityoflife). The Viewport, Action Bars and Minimap pages are listed below Quality of Life. The main, Action Bars and Minimap pages show their options in two columns, so they fit without scrolling. Changes apply right away; the few that touch protected parts of the interface (action bars, key bindings, viewport, system bar) wait until you leave combat.

Quality of Life is available in English and German.

Good to know

• Quality of Life never replaces or hooks Blizzard's action bar, Edit Mode or tooltip code. It only moves the button slots of the bars you flipped, changes the textures of the buttons whose borders you hid, parents hidden frames to a hidden holder, and adds lines to tooltips. That keeps it clear of the "tainted by an addon" errors Midnight-era clients are strict about.
• Don't run it together with another viewport or action bar growth addon (for example Midnight Viewport or Action Bar Button Growth Direction): both would move the same frames. Hiding the button borders is the same: leave it off when HideActionBarBorders, Masque or a bar addon styles your buttons.
• Other tooltip addons may show vendor prices too (Auctionator, for one); turn one of them off if you see the price twice.
• The same goes for other quest automation and minimap addons (Leatrix Plus, SexyMap and the like): use one of them for the same job.