[Freeciv-Dev] Re: City dialog too large

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:03:46AM +0100, Egbert Hinzen wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:53:20PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > >
> > > In the german translation the new city dialog has a width of 754 while
> > > the english one has a width of 570. This has annoyed me for a long
> > > time. The attached patch shows the increase of the translation of
> > > strings which are used in the city dialog.
> >
> > The problem is known, the reason not.
> 
> BTW: As rule by the thumb German translations of English texts are about
> one third bigger (570 * 1.33 = 758)...

ACK. But this doesn't mean necessarily that the window is wider, too.
This is mostly a matter of GUI design.

> > > This means that the german translation of 'Show future targets' is 28
> > > chars longer than the original.
> >
> > But this doesn't harm, does it?
> 
> I don't like it, too, but I don't see any problem...

Problem emerges when the left side of the worklist is filled with
items like bombers and wonders.

> > > It turns out that 'Disband if build
> > > settler at size 1' is the problem. If it is shortened the dialog will
> > > also get a width of 570. Since I noticed that the dialog is also
> > > bigger in the Dutch translation I attached the patch.
> 
> I shortened the German text by 6 signs. Does this solve the "problem"?

I'd be even more radical. Patch attached.

Christian

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