[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Idea/Suggestion for improvement of FreeCiv

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 05:28:55PM +0100, Thomas Kjeldsen wrote:
> Idea/suggestion:
> Messages from other players in a new window.
> 
> Description:
> While playing Freeciv with my friends we chat a lot and the messages from
> them tend to get lost in the stream of informations printed in the
> message-window at the bottom.
> To compensate for this we all run a messenger service in the background, but
> it would be really nice if the built in chat worked just a little bit
> better.
> A seperate window for chat-messages would do the trick.
> 
> Realistic aspect:
> Seperate window for chat-messages.
> 
> How to do it:
> All chat messages get put in a sepeate window just like city-messages ect.

That windows will popup all the time, and you have to close it. Don't like
that.

But, if you have a big screen, you can undock the chat window and make it
bigger.

Possibly we could make colored messages in the chat window.

Christian

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