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

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10986 >

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:

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> <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
> > to all.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.

FWIW, closing the tab will restore you back to the original map position.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa