FreeUI is a minimalistic all-in-one UI. It's suitable for any playstyle and is designed to draw attention to important elements and reduce the visibility of the things you don't care about. A simple in-game setup interface with an optional tutorial gets you started in no time. Paired with its crisp Aurora window theme, low memory and CPU footprint, FreeUI is a solid interface for whatever you do.
Install
Drag the included addons to your AddOns folder as usual. Make sure the !Install addon is loaded before logging in for the first time with FreeUI on any character. You will be given the option to take a brief tutorial, or install the UI.
After the first installation, generally it is not necessary to run anything other than the chat installation on other characters.
Updating
When updating the UI to a newer version, you generally only need to replace the files present in the 'files changed' list in the change log of the version you are updating to. If you run into issues, however, it is recommended that you try a clean install.
Options
You can open FreeUI/scripts/options.lua with a text editor such as Notepad or TextEdit to view and adjust the options and profiles available for this UI. The comments added in the file should make editing self-explanatory.
Support
Before you ask any questions (which I will gladly answer), please consider this first to help me save some time:
Read the tutorial included in the installer which you can bring up by typing /freeui install.
Check FreeUI/options.lua to see if there already is a setting for what you want to ask/suggest.
Read the FAQ and known issues below.
Q: How can I add more action bars?
A: Esc -> Interface -> Action bars.
Q: Where is the stance/shapeshift/... bar?
A: Enable it in FreeUI/options.lua.
Q: How can I move the unitframes/castbar or resize the party/raid frames?
A: Check FreeUI/options.lua.
Q: Where is the ToT (Target of Target) frame? I only see a name.
A: There is no ToT frame in this UI.
Q: What's that thing that shows buffs/debuffs on some classes?
A: Its sFilter. Open FreeUI/options.lua and scroll down a little for the configuration (examples are included).
Q: How do I disable a part of the UI like action bars/chat/...?
A: Look in the scripts folder, and delete the lua file + its matching line in FreeUI.toc.
Issue: "Interface action blocked because of an AddOn" when looting in combat/placing a world marker
Status: Inevitable. Autoloot works around the looting issue.
Issue: Invisible unnamed frames being created on glyph/reforging/character frame eventually presents mouse interaction
Status: Looking into the issue. /rl temporarily resolves this.
License
All rights reserved unless explicitly stated otherwise. Some code in FreeUI is taken with permission from other addons; please respect the authors of these addons as well.
Credits
FreeUI could never have been coded all by me and thus I would like to thank the following people for their addons, permissions, and/or support.
Allez, AlleyKat, Alza, Caellian, funkydude, Haste, Safturento, Seerah, Shantalya, Tukz, tekkub, Tuller, Zork
I would also like to thank the WoWInterface community for being generally awesome.