...I was just looking at the new station interface when IT hit me... we can make everything so much simpler and combine many different functions into a single tab by implementing context sensitive buttons in the main "manage", as highlighted here: http://thurisaz.dhaova.net/manage.png

..i.e., highlight your ship in the list, and the buttons become "buy new ship", "sell ship", "repaint ship", etc

..highlight a weapon to see "goto load/unload weapons", "goto manage weapon groups", or the same ammo-reload options you see now if it's an ammo-based weapon (maybe some nifty damage/range graphs?)

..and, best of all, highlight cargo to get some load/unload/sell options

..maybe even can add station cargo below ship cargo, and universe inventory above ship inventory??

if that's too confusing maybe I'll try to put a mockup together...

It sounds like an interesting optional GUI configuration for some to make after the LUA API is released.

Good idea(s), thurisaz.

okay, here's some rough mockups of cargo-context and weapon-context... that last one was a pain, and took me way too long :o

http://thurisaz.dhaova.net/manageUI-cargo.png
http://thurisaz.dhaova.net/manageUI-weapon.png