[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestions (PR#2783)

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:48:53AM -0200, Silvio Santana wrote:
> 
> 
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> >I agree fully. The current order for previous/next gives nothing. You
> >suggest a kind of ad-hoc order, depending of the current/latest sort 
> >order in in the city report (F1) or the message window (F10), respectively?
> 
> YES.
> Note that when the user selects a city by clicking it on the map,
> there is no context, once there is no city report or message window,
> so the order should be something else, perhaps foundation order like
> it is by now.

When there is no other context, we can use the geographical context:
"Next" is the nearest city to the east, "Previous" the nearest city to the
west.[1]

Christian

[1] Or any other algorithm you prefer to determine what is "nearest".

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