Suggestion: change to PIA Notification Area Icon Right Click layout

frat1danfrat1dan
edited January 2016 in Feedback
With the move to wider screens and improved customization options for the Windows desktop, I wish to suggest the following improvement for PIA's Notification Area Icon option when right click is activated.

There may be a few more people out there who may have increased the font size of desktop, icon, menus, title bars etc. These optional changes in conjunction with a wide screen means the Right Click option requires a PIA user to go to the top of the pop-up menu to disconnect or connect. Or, in the case of a disconnect and exit, scroll to the top and then scroll to the bottom to quit. With large menu/title bar fonts, the pop-up menu becomes long and server locations are not totally visible unless one scrolls. (on another matter I'm not sure why you don't introduce the latency figures on your desktop version).

My suggestion is to have the 'Connect/Disconnect, Settings and Quit options all in one section of the pop-up menu with an option to have the servers listed as they are or present as another pop-up sub menu. With this the right click would produce a small and quickly navigable menu that would suit a wide range of user settings.

For your consideration. 

Comments

  • getofftheshedgetofftheshed
    edited February 2016
    frat1dan said:
    "...in the case of a disconnect and exit, scroll to the top and then scroll to the bottom to quit. With large menu/title bar fonts, the pop-up menu becomes long and server locations are not totally visible unless one scrolls."

    Amen!     \m/

    I wholeheartedly second this suggestion.

    I love PIA, but running it on my Media PC (attached to my TV) is a PITA due to the higher DPI scaling - makes it impossible to exit PIA via right-clicking the systray icon without first scrolling down in order to select 'Exit'.

  • OmniNegroOmniNegro
    How about dividing the server locations by region into submenus? This would make the crazy long list into a much shorter list with entries like North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and such. And hovering over/clicking on a region would expand that region and show the server locations in that region.

    How to divide up the locations would have to be entirely arbitrary. After all, there is no hard rule for what would be Europe and what would be Asia for instance. In other words, at some point in Eastern Europe, you are actually in Asia. Which it is depends on who you ask.

    And credit where credit is due, this is not my idea. I remember reading someone else suggest it a long time ago. And it is in ever increasing need as more and more servers and locations are added.
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