[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Windows client

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:07:34PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> I got some spare time today in front of a windows computer. So I
> though that I should look at our windows client (never seen it
> before). I used the beta1 binary from the FTP server. 

/Me too, some days ago. I've sent some comments to Andreas.

> IMHO the windows client looks 2 levels worse than the GTK one. It has
> the "charm" of the Xaw client. I think that the client really looks
> like people expect open source software to look like. So while I think
> that Andreas and the others have done a great job it is hard with this
> client to attract people who never played freeciv to play freeciv. I
> have made some screenshots and put them at
> http://www.freeciv.org/~rfalke/.

Well, I really don't think it is that bad. Obviously there are a lot of
small things that don't work as smooth as with Gtk/Linux. I'd say
if there were three people like Andreas doing the work it will be
probably very good.

My overall impression is that it works stable and reliable, and the
visual things are ok. Plus, it has a server shell, what the GTk version
is still lacking.

But I'm happy to be back on my Linux box, anyway :)

>       Raimar

Christian

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