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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6341) gtk2.0 / 1.14.1beta: menus in dialogs not as good as buttons
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:46:57 -0700
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry, I have to disagree strongly here. We have been getting lots of
reports of people who have had trouble with the new diplomacy dialog, not
finding the menu. Some other solution should be found.

  - Per




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