[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2708) patch: backing rectangle for city descriptions in gtk2 client

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2708 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2708 >
> 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Guest wrote:
> 
>>New mock-up:
>>http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~haskjold/freeciv/city_info3.png
>>
>>Yellow stars show number of units it your own cities and those of your
>>allies. Enemy city show larger star for unit present, and none if no
>>unit present.
> 
> 
> Why are there stars on both sides?

Seems like a bad design to split them.

> What does the "9" and the "5" mean,
> respectively?

Same thing they do now: turns-to-build and turns-to-grow.

> What is the hammer there for (I feel the want to click it to
> change production...)?

I think that symbolizes production (as the wheat icon symbolizes growth).

> Moving the flag is ... an interesting idea. Not sure if it is a good one
> yet.

Yeah.

> But I would caution against putting too much information in there.
> Tightly crowded GUIs tend to be confusing.

The current mockup doesn't have any additional information compared to 
what's there now, except for the multiple-stars choice (currently there 
is just a single "occupied" flag).

-jason