[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7127) [FS] Screen design

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> I still think you need some sort of chat area, for player to player
> messages at least. Copy Quake 3 Arena for this. It works in an
> unobstrusive way.

There is also the problem of input. Where does the player types his
player-to-player messages and server-commands? Morgan reserved real
space for this. How does Quake solve this?

> My proposal is: Quake 3 Arena like player to player messages on the top
> left or right of the screen, superimposed over the map.

> Messages dialog (i.e. improvement or unit built, etc) is replaced by
> a column of icons ala Civ CTP, growing from the bottom to the top.

This is not enough. You have to give a text ("City London may soon
grow to size 3.") somewhere. There are just too many messages. Either
icons are only for important stuff and you have a normal list
somewhere. Or you make the text a tooltip of the icon.

        Raimar

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