I love these! I would like to do stuff like this, but I only know how to create icons with AI.  I tried to get it to help me create some new props and what not for buildings but it said 0ads coding/way of doing it was too complicated and not worth it.  OR at least something along those lines.  Do you know how to actually make new actors, props etc?  Or just created the images?  

I like the gain in clarity and the attempt to normalize panel's heights. There are a couple reasons why I still couldn't go for this. Lateral space is already scarce in ModernGUI if you don't have a big screen Although your suggestion takes as much total space as what's implemented in the mod, it adds the clutter a bit more to the center of the screen. For users that use hotkeys for unit action anyways, or at least for myself, this is not desirable (maybe it's just something you could get used too idk) Contrary to what you say, the placement is logical. All possible actions are on the right side, all attribute-like options on the left (formation stance..) Currently the single selection detail panel wouldn't be able to shrink down height without losing something.   You are basically saying the wording "turret point" is confusing but you aren't suggesting anything.

Playing with ai.

It seems to me that those buttons are placed on a panel dedicated to something else… What about something like this instead? (I also changed their ordering to something a bit more thematic):   There would still be the issue I mentioned that many turret points have nothing to do with turrets, which was confusing me from the beginning.