[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6341) gtk2.0 / 1.14.1beta: menus in dialogs not as good as buttons

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>
> 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.

I can remember one report. This one. If you cannot accept that old users
will take some time to get used to minor UI changes, you will never
progress at all.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa