im pumped for the new graphic updates, but i think another possible improvement could be a rework of the menu interfaces. im thinking along the lines of WoW, only not quite so complicated. instead of the current menu style, which always has one window open, be it pack, stats...etc each one could be collapsed into a seperate icon when not in use, which could then be enlarged to show the contents of that window. this would give much more room to display the actual ingame screen, giving more room for those fancy new graphics im sure this looks alot better in my head than how im describing it, but im more a visual thinker so bear with me on this 1
any feedback, is appreciated, this just came to me recently and im sure its been suggested b4 somewhere...

Dream on.

I like the idea, but the current menu uses alot of unused screen space, meaning that if there was a collapsible menu, either the screen would be noticably smaller, or your view of the things around your character would be wider, which may be more awkward, but good at the same time.

so if you killing monsters and the menu slider froze you dead meat ?

it's not that much a great idea if they " slide automatically" or with a click of a button which will conduct LAG to turn the screen smaller again

remember that Java's potential is only limited to so much.

But its a very well thought out idea

yea lag would definetly be a problem
im not sure wat u mean by the menu slider thing tho
the menus wouldnt slide automatically it would be with clicks