[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] New city dialog (6)

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

[I probably missed some mails because my ISP's mail service was down]

Am Samstag,  1. September 2001 11:34 schrieb Daniel Sjölie:
> Ok, here's a new batch...

Great!

Some feedback:

> In the worklist:
> Added Up and Down buttons and other minor interface changes...
> Also changed the way worklists work when You press Next/Prev city...
> I figure it must have been meant to be a feature that the worklist
> You had worked on stayed when You switched city but it didn't work
> well att all... Messed things up when I used it anyway - so I changed
> it so that changes are applied to the worklist You're leaving when
> You switch and You get the current worklist for the next city
> instead... Seems a lot more intuitive to me...

I wonder whether there needs to be an apply button at all. Now, when
you change sth in the worklist and switch to "overview", it's
not updated. Why not? - Also I'd rename the Cancel button to "Undo".

Keys: "Ins" and "Del" for switching the panes is not very
intiutive. Could you change this to shift-cursor or ctrl-cursor?
"Ins" and "del" then could be used for inserting / deleting items
in the worklist. You'd have full keyboard control then.

On the overview page, you can't see whether you have a worklist.
So, if you change production, you will erase any worklist accidentally.
A worklist indicator would be nice. I'm thinking of a small thing,
maybe "WL" behind the "Currently building: .." line.

Even more:

The text lines in the happiness display are very short.

When you enter a "long" item (e.g. stealth bomber) into the
current worklist the first time, the mostright column of the list 
vanishes. You have to resize the window manually.

From a design point, the "enable tooltips" should be on the
misc. settings page. If you'd move it there, remove "apply",
and move "Cancel" ("Undo") up, the display gets clearer.
And, the value of "Enable tooltips" should be stored globally
for all city dialogs.

> I'm thinking of adding the City info to the Happiness page... Looks
> like it would fit ok under the map... This should be easy enough now
> with the rework of the info listing - what do You think?

Good idea.

Wishlist:

I'd like to have a production loss indicator, whenever you switch
from unit to building production and vice versa.

Christian

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