[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog - stage 6

[Martin Hinsch <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:04:25AM +0200, Daniel Sjölie wrote:
> On 2001-04-04 21:58:21, Martin Hinsch wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I just noticed the discussion about the worklist (without having followed
> > the previous mails). Maybe it's a bit off topic but I think a really good
> > example for a well done implementation of work lists can be seen in
> > Master of Orion II. I think it offers all features found in the current
> > freeciv one but is (at least in my opinion) much easier to use. You can
> > insert and remove items with a single click, move them up and down the list
> > and don't have to press a clumsy apply button.
> 
> I agree...
> Another thing about that interface that seems relevant here is that when
> You pressed the "Change" button in the planet view You got the
> worklist...
> 
> I agree that having both a worklist and a change dialog is probably not
> such a good idea... And it is true that a newbie might be confused if
> there was no change-button... But I think it would be very much ok to
> have the Change-button trigger a switch to the worklist... Then all
> effort can be turned to optimize the worklist interface... MoOII has
> shown that it can be done nicely...
> 
> What do You think about that?
> 
> /Daniel
> 
> -- 
> Now take a deep breath, smile and don't take life so seriously... :)
> 

Sounds good. I even thought about how to join the progress display and the
work list maybe with some kind of drop down list. Don't know. Anyways
going into direction of MOOII seems ok for me.

Martin

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