[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#949) city report fields don't sort well

[Ilkka Lehtoranta <ilkleht@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:

> > Doing all of this elegantly (note that the alternative solution is far
> > from elegant, so the bar is pretty low) is not easy, but I think it is
> > possible.  It is made more difficult because the different GUIs may have
> > very different interfaces: even gui-gtk and gui-gtk-2.0 are quite different.
> >
> > I've had some thoughts on how to do this, but I'd like to get others'
> > opinions on it.  First of all: would these capabilities be a good thing?
> >  Secondly: how would you go about implementing it?  (Or, better yet, can
> > you provide a patch?).
>
> Yes, these would be a good thing. Problem is, to make a good usuable and
> intiutive GUI, which is not overloaded.
>
> E.g. Raimer's sorting for F/P/T stressed the user with counting up to 8
> clicks on the same button. IMO this must be addressed for people with less
> than five years computer experience (or so, you know what I mean ...)
>
> There are other things which could be displayed within the city report,
> e.g. the existing buildings, the supported / stationed units, how many,
> which kinds, veterans or not ...
>
> Question is, whether these things should all be placed into one dialog,
> or can they be split up in a good manner. Suggestions welcome.

I havent seen the latest GTK client but I think it could be good idea
split report window into subpages. In examples those pages could be
Overview, Military, Production and Happiness. When the Overview page could
give quick general description of city status other pages could go into
details.


  Ilkka