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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by AQuantized on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:24PM (#29763956)
To be fair this is basically just a texture pack, which is already something you can use. The real problem is the highly consistent UI design, differing in things as simple as if you have to use a keyboard or mouse to navigate a list.

Toady is understandably disinterested in putting time into that element of the game, and I think he had a bad experience the last time he 'outsourced' it.

Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by paavohtl on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:40PM (#29764074)
It's not just a texture pack in any way - just read the dev blog. They are also overhauling all of the UIs, adding mouse support to everything and so on.