So I posted this complaint elsewhere but having come up with a better solution I thought I'd create this thread.
Currently, equipping a new item with a full inventory is a 6 or 7 step process (I thought it was 5, then I realised moving counts too)
How about adding some extra functionality to dropping? If you drop an item from any equipment or inventory slot, IF there's an item on the ground at your feet that item will replace the dropped item in the slot just freed up IF the item is of the appropriate type.
So, to take a common example in AoLT: you have green armour equipped and a full inventory. You are standing over blue armour. You go to your equipment screen, select the green armour, it tells you you have no room in your inventory, do you want to EXCHANGE items? You say yes and hey presto, you equip blue armour, the green is at your feet and no inventory shuffling was required.
This could work for the drop key too.
This would be so much simpler than the current process:
1) Drop an item you want to keep
2) Move over the blue armour
3) Pick up the blue armour
4) Equip the blue armour
5) Drop the green armour
6) Move over item left at (1)
7) Pick up the item
So, that's my no.1 request for DoomRL.
The other that comes to mind is related to the new graphical mode. How about two fast scroll keys to view the level? Using the mouse takes quite a long time, especially on a touchpad.
Cheers!