[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10647) gtk2 startscreen: titles for network tabs aren't helpful

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10647 >

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Jason Short wrote:

>
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10647 >
>
> The GTK2 startscreen has a "connect to network game" page.  There are
> two tabs here:
>
>    "Connect to Metaserver Game"
>    "Connect to LAN Game"
>
> but for a typical newbie user these are probably not understandable.  I
> would instead suggest:
>
>    "Connect to Global Game"
>    "Connect to Local Game"
>
> the former isn't perfect, but is better than "metaserver" which will
> surely not be understood by new computer users.  The latter is good
> since it's both understandable and technically accurate.

Maybe, but metaserver is well known by old Freeciv users, while global
game is not. Most players will also know what a LAN is.

How about "Internet Metaserver" and "Local Area Network" for the tab
names?.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa