[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Leader names

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> The new team selection code is very nice. Finally teams work for GUI
> users.
> 
> However, the leader names part of the GUI does not work well. Choose a
> leader name with a long name (plenty of those around), and the GUI resizes
> and sometimes partially hides team names. The distinction between user
> name and leader name is confusing and non-obvious.
> 
> I think it is high time we stopped using leader names for humans and
> reserved them for AI use. We discussed this when we went over this GUI
> design, and there was, IIRC, general agreement on this point.

I do not particularly agree.  And this doesn't help with any GUI issue
since the username can be just as long (MAX_LEN_NAME).

-jason