[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6388) Unknown research in intelligence dialog

["Paul Zastoupil" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:33:20AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> Remi Bonnet wrote:
> > Jason Short wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Remi Bonnet wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >>>Another tiny patch ;-)
> >>>
> >>>This one remove the (0/1) string after 'Researching: (Unknown)' in the
> >>>intelligence report when the player don't know the player research.
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>
> >>Why do we rarely use spaces in these strings?  E.g., why not have
> >>
> >>  Republic (10/40)
> >>
> >>instead of
> >>
> >>  Republic(10/40)
> >>
> >>?  The same thing happens in many other strings in the client.  Is there 
> >>a reason?
> >>
> >>jason
> >> 
> >>
> > 
> > I don't understand... My patch doesn't deal with spaces...
> > 
> > It just replace:
> >  Researching: (Unknown) (0/1)
> > to
> >  Researching: (Unknown)
> > 
> > The first looks stupid for me.
> 
> Your patch doesn't introduce this.  But it actually replaces
> 
>    Researching: (Unknown)(0/1)
> 
> with
> 
>    Researching: (Unknown)
> 
> so my question is, why don't we use a space in the original string?

It might be a real estate issue. 

(I'm just guessing, I remember some of the dialogs were getting too
big.)

-- 
Paul Zastoupil