[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#5141) "Next time open" not persistent

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[jdorje - Wed Aug 27 19:20:46 2003]:

> [jdwheeler42 - Tue Aug 19 18:15:40 2003]:
> 
> > In the city dialog, under the "Settings" tab, the "Next time open"
> > setting is not saved in .civclientrc, so every time the client is
> > restarted, it reverts to the default "Overview" setting.  (If
> > accelerators for the tabs were restored in CVS, this wouldn't be as
> > important.)
> 
> This is not easily solvable since the .civclientrc data is saved by the
> common client code, but the city dialog pages are gui-specific.

OK, it's worse than this.  The data is put into the savegame so it is
persistent on a per-city basis.  This of course means it must be sent to
the server.  But all this is done by the GUI code, so there's no
guarantee whatsoever that any of it will be consistent between clients.

In other words switching clients will probably give garbage for every
city option.  Some of these options are not to be trifled with...

jason