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

["imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03-10-02 you 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.

I had a lot of trouble finding out about the shortcuts. I still don't
know what menu you guys are talking about. My suggestion: add a 'Help'
button in the players dialog.

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