[Freeciv-Dev] Re: notifies cleanup patch (6)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:08:35AM -0500, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:02:45PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:10:29PM +0200, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > > I don't like the scrolling. IMHO the correct way is to provide tabbed
> > > > panes for "city related events", "unit related events", "diplomat
> > > > related events", "diplomacy related events" and "misc events".
> > > 
> > > The scrolled dialog is _very_ nice for 800x600. I don't think a tabbed
> > > dialog would be that nice there. A tabbed dialog is also harder to extend
> > > and requires more work. I say we ship with a scrolled dialog for now, and
> > > then add a tabbed dialog post-release if someone writes one which is
> > > better.
> > 
> > So if I change the patch to use tabbed pane you will be happy?
> 
> I will not be happy. 

I expected this ;)

> once again we have overkill, and this time in an area of the user
> experience that is used very rarely. 

Good point.

> You want to add a couple hundred lines

I'm not sure if it would really require this much code.

Question: does Xaw support tabbed panes?

        Raimar

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