Re: the 'new' city dialog": open discussion
Christian Knoke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.games.freeciv.general |
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:46:41PM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote: > I'm wondering if we did a disservice to freeciv by creating the new city > dialog (the one with with multiple tabs in a notebook). I don't think so, but I only know GTK 1.2 > I've found that I never open up multiple city dialog windows (on purpose). I do, managing groups of cities marked in the city report. > I've found that I've had to switch back and forth multiple times from > overview to production when creating a worklist. I will start using worklists when I can assign them from the city report. > In general I've found that the old dialog was more efficient to use. The new (GTK 1) dialog allows managing *lots* of units (that happpens), and CMA. I don't use the other tabs (oh, well, sometimes a look on the happiness page). > What are other people's opinion's of this? You might want to compile > the XAW client and take a look if you don't remember the old dialog. Managing lots of cities is still not easy, but better with the new dialog. It would be easier if there a simpler ways for complex tasks (e.g. city founding options, macros in the report). > I've been thinking that perhaps it might be better to open new subdialog > windows for production or CMA or happiness from buttons on the main dialog, > and these will remain open and display other city's info as you click on > other cities... (maybe an option for either the old behavior: new child > subdialogs for each city dialog open, or new behavior, subdialogs are > children of the toplevel window and display info (CMA, production, etc) for > the active city dialog window) Presenting the information efficiently is a good target, but I don't think you will achieve this with subwindows. These are horror. > Did we take a step backward with the new dialog? No, relax, I really don't think so :) > Everyone's input, especially non-developers, is welcome. > > -mike Christian -- Christian Knoke * * * http://cknoke.de * * * * * * * * * Ceterum censeo Microsoft esse dividendum.