[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion for smaller dialogs

[Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Christian Knoke wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 30. September 2001 18:47 schrieb Karl-Ingo Friese:
> > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 30. September 2001 16:23 schrieb Karl-Ingo Friese:
> > > > Hello there,
> > > >
> > > > as already stated by others before, some dialogs take enourmous
> > > > space on the screen; especialy in some localized versions. Two
> > > > ideas to solve this:
> > > >
> > > > As I just tried out, a simple '\n' between two words make the
> > > > button display the text in two lines. This might especialy useful
> > > > for the localized versions of the player report, for example the
> > > > german one. This works if I changed the hardcoded default text, I
> > > > dont know about the NLS stuff. Could the translators try this out
> > > > ?
> > >
> > > Yes, this works also for the translation, I've tried it before.
> > > And yes, it might be a solution for the problem, if nothing else
> > > helps. It's possible but it doesn't look very nice.
> >
> > I agree. But a button called "Kartentausch zurückziehen" (to mention
> > a famous example again) will always look ugly. Even if all other
>
> Well, thats a matter of the translators, who have to take more things
> into account than "looks ugly"

Yes - but still I can not agree here. It is impossible for the programers
to design a button which would look good in all languages. He can help
with technical things (sich as extra lengthy text is not drawn over
the border which happens often by commercial software) but he can not
make it look "nice". IMHO thats part of the translators job - to make a
text understandable without destroying the look. Either by finding
a shorter translation or making the button two-rowed.

I will look into the different sized button problem now ...
And no - I have no idea how to switch between multiple button
depending on the language rows without changing the code yet.

Ingo

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Karl-Ingo Friese
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