CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

'g' Pickup menu no longer shows item description

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#62,718 opened on Dec 13, 2022

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Previously it was easy to just scroll trough the items and see their descriptions, cause i'm not that experienced in the game i would read those a lot, but now i need to press E every time i want to see the item description, which is way slower than just being able to scroll trough.

Solution you would like.

Adding back a window that would show item description without having to do any button presses

Describe alternatives you have considered.

Making it an option to enable, but i really don't know why it's been removed in the first place, it was really useful, now Pickup menu is just an inferior version of AIM

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Research direction
Investigate the 'g' pickup menu code to locate where item descriptions were shown and restore that functionality.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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