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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6341) gtk2.0 / 1.14.1beta: menus in dialogs not as good as buttons
From: "Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 05:57:05 -0700
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Guest wrote:

> In the old GTK client, 'options' in the city menu, 'intel' and 'meet' in
> the diplomacy menu were all buttons.  Moving them to a menu makes them
> harder to see and slightly slower to use.

If you want fast, use the keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise use the menu. The
possible diplomacy actions were getting to be too many to use buttons for
all of them. Having a dialog which is so wide it doesn't fit on smaller
screens is no fun and it is against the GNOME HIG.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
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