[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 Fri, 3 Oct 2003, imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

Do you use the GTK+ 2.0 client? The GTK+ 2.0 client only has one button in
that window, that is the close button.
The actions are on a menu. The menubar is, as usual, on the top of the
players dialog.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa