[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2765) Deleting units from worklist is very unintuitive

["Stepan Roh via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Mike Kaufman via RT wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:11:02AM -0800, Stepan Roh via RT wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> >
> > > > Deleting units from worklist is very unintuitive (double-clicking).
> > >
> > > I don't think so. If you managed to add an item into the worklist by
> > > doubleclicking the right column you will also manage to double-click
> > > the left column.
> >
> > Hm, that's true. So that's not intuitive too. And if you doubleclick in
> > rigth column new item is added to the left column, but clicking on the
> > left column removes item from the left column - that's not the same.
>
> I experimented briefly with drag 'n drop in GTK, and let me tell you, it
> is _no_ fun whatsoever. Part of that is due to the fact that there is
> almost no documentation about it anywhere.

<OT>I worked with DnD in Java. It can't be worse :-) </OT>

> I agree it's needed and will gladly look at any patch implementing it
> (though vasc would probably be a better reviewer).
>
> I agree that the current system sucks. We just need somebody to step up to
> bat. If someone's really interested, I'll send them all I have on GTK DnD
> (isn't much, but it's something).

I finally found my MOO2 manual so here is how it works there (I did not
check it in the game):

- brief help is shown in special box if mouse is over some improvement
- one click on an improvement adds it to the queue
- one click on an improvement which is already in the queue removes it
(applies only to buildings and similar one-time improvements - they are
marked if being in the queue; buildings and ships/spies etc. are
in separate lists)
- one click on an item in the queue changes improvement name to
something like "remove XXX", if clicked second time (so it is not
double-click!) item is removed; item is moved if clicked elsewhere in the
queue (some visual help is present so one can know where it will go)
- I also think that right clicking on improvement gives full help, but I'm
not sure

Stepan Roh