[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 Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:16:23AM -0800, Morgan Jones wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
> 
> > Wasn't there the idea that different screens have different
> > (background) color?
> 
> I thought the idea was to a basic background colour and elements such
> as list headers and progress bars would provide a bit of colour.  In
> the City Popup I used Green and in the Main GUI I used blue.

Hmmm. Looks like a misunderstanding. However I have no idea which
variant will look better.

> > The "top" of the message area and the city list looks a lot like ms
> > windows(tm). 
> 
> Erk.  I hardly ever use windows so I wouldn't really know what it
> looks like all that much.
> 
> I used a similar idea for the worklist headers (green instead of
> blue).  How come you didn't think this with them?  Is it the blue?

The blue. The gradient. The height. The left-aligned text.

> So maybe keep the green consistent and change the background dither
> instead?  The major problem with this is that it's going to use up a
> LOT of pens if every GUI has a different dither. 
> > users may expect that they can move these.

> I can see that this might be a problem.  I'll try insetting rather
> than raising.  That should help.

Yes.

        Raimar

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