[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3886) City description is hidden for polar cities

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ChrisK@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:21:00PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>[ChrisK@xxxxxxxx - Fri Mar 28 09:53:43 2003]:
>>
>>
>>>For cities on the south pole, the city name and production on the map is
>>>not readable in most cases, depending on the size of the map subwindow.

> Well this is something we call 'Schildb?rgerstreich' [1] in german. The
> white text is hard to see over the icecap of the south pole and the partly
> white city icon.

Yes.

> Why not put the description *above* the city icon, for the lowest two lines of
> tiles in the map? That'd place the text into the blue ocean. Or will this
> conflict with descriptions of less lower cities?

Change the "#if 0" line in gui-gtk/mapview.c to an "#if 1" and you'll 
get this.  But IMO it's even more confusing.

jason