[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Windows client

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, 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.
>
> 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/.

Yes the client is ugly. But to give Andreas credit where it is due I have
to say that currently gui-win32 clients account for 23% of civserver traffic.

Traffic we would not have if there was no client at all.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa