We welcome feedback about menus, toggles on menus, buttons on menus, input devices (like touch controls and keyboards), and Minecraft’s interface. How do you play? What would make it better?

← User Interface, Input Methods and Menu Options
17
Follow

Bring back the button highlights from before 1.15

In 1.15-pre1 button highlights were... removed, basically. They now just have the white outline that appears when tabbing through them.

I'll be honest. I've never liked the bedrock edition's GUIs. I've especially hated the way they do the button highlights ever since it was changed to that eye-bleeding bright green, but I make an exception because I know that I don't have to play that game, and given past experiences with it, my standards are low.

But when you start bringing these things to the main game, I can't let it pass. They look terrible, no one I know even asked for this change, and it does absolutely nothing to improve accessibility.

The blue highlight was already clear and easy to spot (and I say this as a colour blind person). The white outline is just a bit of an eyesore, and harder to see against varied backgrounds.

IMO a really bad decision all around.

PS. Also please don't try to make them green. We have enough green already. >.<
PPS. By colour-blind, I mean I'm red-green colour-blind. Certain shades of green I can't see, or see as yellow, and some shades of red I can't distinguish from brown. This is really just to corroborate the "please no more green" point above.

Avatar
Registered User shared this idea

7 Comments

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Date Votes
Sorted by oldest
  • 5
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    someone needs to make a texture pack to bring it back

  • 3
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    I really hope whoever made that update realises their mistake and changes it in time for 1.15.1

  • 4
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Please remove those outlines! Or if not just make them toggleable in the settings.

  • 4
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    when using the "Programmer Art" resource pack, it brings back the correct highlights for all but the accessibility icon in the title screen.

  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Good news! Using programmer's art, the old beautiful blue/yellow buttons are back again.

    I really hope they keep the programmer's art as long as Minecraft exists, so Mojang can make UI/texture changes based on whatever whim they have, without me having to see them.

  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Honestly I cannot stand the outline look. I'm unsure who thought it was such a great idea to implement it. It definitely isn't only my brain hurting.

    It could make sense to make the buttons use that style in a high contrast setting (say, available as an accessibility feature), but I doubt that's ever gonna happen.

    Using the Programmer Art until this is either resolved or when I find the energy to throw the buttons into a resource pack.

  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Programmer Art no longer changes the text colour to be yellow anymore, and they might have removed the ability to add that to resource packs. New buttons look like garbage, bedrock ui is indeed terrible, the Xp bar in bedrock is god awful too.