[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6944) repodlg.c: showing only 11-step-reachable techs

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6944 >

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6944 >
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:26:11PM -0800, Eugeny Korekin wrote:
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> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6944 >
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> > The code in clients implementation shows only techs reachable in
> > 11 steps as possible goals.
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> > Why there is such limit?
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> To limit the number of entries shown.
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> > I think, goals defined in nations' tech_goals options should
> > be visible always, no matter how many steps it takes to achieve
> > these techs. For example, there is ancients modpack, in which
> > romans has tech_goal Republic, but it cannot be seen in science
> > dialog, and player wrongly thought, that current goal is Academy
> > (first tech in alphabetically sorted list),
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> I don't agree.
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> > As a maximum, there should be no such limitation for clients,
> > supporting scrollable menus(such as gtk2-client) or client-tunable
> > visible goals step-limit.
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> Another way would be to limit the number of entries shown (user
> option).
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> Vasco?

I'm not sure we should bother, I mean, it "works" as it is and GTK+ 2.0
is the default client now, not to mention it supports more platforms
properly than GTK+ 1.2...

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa