Re: the 'new' city dialog": open discussion

Raimar Falke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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've found that I never open up multiple city dialog windows (on purpose).
> 
> I've found that I've had to switch back and forth multiple times from
> overview to production when creating a worklist.
> 
> In general I've found that the old dialog was more efficient to use.

> 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.

I would like to have a dialog which remember its size across games. I
usually have to enlarge it to avoid too much scrolling in the
production list.

> 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... 

On a non-windowed UI you may get parts which extend to show extra
information. Like in
http://moo3.quicksilver.com/cool/oct02/senate01.html and
http://moo3.quicksilver.com/cool/oct02/senate02.html. I don't say that
this is good or better. It is just another alternative.

	Raimar

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