[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#3879) two, I think

["Loren Wright" <lorenw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't been able to play it very much, and so far I haven't played 
online.  I'm using version 1.13.0 of the game with XDarwin and 
OroborOSX under OS X 10.2.4.  In general I'm very impressed with the 
result of the team's effort, though as a Mac person, I'm not too 
thrilled by the X-Windows UI.  But I'm starting to get used to it?

First, in the dialog where you confirm (or change) the name of a new 
city, the Enter key generates a little square on the screen, which I 
imagine corresponds to a misunderstood control character.  So far this 
is the only place I've encountered where Enter isn't accepted as the 
default button for a dialog.  If you then hit Return, it is treated by 
the program as if you hit the Cancel button.  You have to first delete 
the little square generated by the Enter key.  (I haven't looked at the 
source code, which I DLed, but I suppose this could be some kind of 
built-in X-Windows thing!)

Second, I was building the Colossus in one of my cities, and had it 
nearly built when I was informed to one of the AI players had done so.  
I went into the city's dialog and was surprised when the program 
allowed me to buy it.  I was even more surprised when I discovered in 
the next round of log messages that both of us had bought it!  I would 
imagine that this would be an easy bug to track down, and I just might 
do so!

I'm currently an "under-employed" Mac programmer, so if you think there 
are some places that I could make contributions to the coding effort 
without having a thorough knowledge of the rest of the source, I'd be 
willing to give it a try!  I'll also go to the website and see what the 
official path is for contributing to the programming effort.  Thanks 
for your attention!

Loren Wright
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