[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10986) find-city has bad behavior

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Christian Knoke wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10986 >
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> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:52:28PM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
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>><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10986 >
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>>>[jdorje - Thu Nov 11 23:01:15 2004]:
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>>>I'm talking of the gtk2 client specifically, although this can apply
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>>to all.
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>>>If you find-city (shift-F) it auto-selects the first (alphabetically) 
>>>city in the list and auto-centers on that.  This is pretty bad behavior. 
>>>  Probably no city should be selected by default.  If one must be 
>>>selected then it should be the one closest to the mapview center.
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>>FWIW, the dialog was already like this. This is bad behaviour because?
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> Because the mapview changes in an unpredictable way, when you call that
> dialog.
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> But I agree that this is a rather small problem.

It's worse under tabs than it was under dialogs.  If you deselect the 
tab and then reselect it the city will be uncentered and then recentered.

jason