[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog - stage 10

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

Just after freeciv 1.12.0 is released probably.

-Thue

On Sunday 29 April 2001 21:15, Patrick Schmid wrote:
> When will we see this new city dialog included in CVS?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christian Knoke
> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 15:02
> > To: Freeciv Developers
> > Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog - stage 10
> >
> > Am Samstag, 28. April 2001 18:18 schrieben Sie:
> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:40:05AM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > A related problem: In the worklist page, both lists are
> > > > sized equal, even if the left one is proper displayed
> > > > already, and the right one still uses scroll bars. It
> > > > would be much nicer, if this was solved more intelligently.
> > > > But maybe this is too tricky with GTK?
> > >
> > > We (Tuomas and I) have discussed this:
> > >  - no scrollbars at all -> size increases
> > >  - fixed size -> always scrollbars
> > >  - size depending on the size of the whole dialog -> sometimes
> > > scrollbars - user decides which columns are shown
> > >  - smaller font
> > >
> > > Want do you want?
> >
> > I suggest the following: remove the "Info" column from
> > the current worklist on the left and remove the horizontal
> > scrollbars from that list. Keep the scrollbars of the
> > available items list on the right, and remove the "Turns"
> > column from it. Reduce the size of the "Turns" column. Max
> > is 999.
> >
> > The "Info" doesn't tell you much; you should really know
> > what you are building. The "Turns" info in the right window
> > isn't useful either, the "Cost" info is more informative IMO.
> >
> > This prevents you from overloading the dialog and from exceding
> > it over 800 pixels. Plus, it will remove the scrollbars at all
> > in most cases. The important thing on the city dialog is that
> > it is *handy* to use.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> > P.S.: Just discovered the right mouse button on the units -
> > fine thing. You should write help texts for the dialog. :-)
> >
> > >   Raimar
> >
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