[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#13925) Complaint about FreeCiv tabs becoming windows

["Nando Florestan" <nando2003@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13925 >

Dear FreeCiv developers,

I have been playing FreeCiv 2.02 for months and loving it. I remember 
when I first saw the tabbed UI (like Firefox) I felt proud of the open 
source developers, who in this respect where doing a much better job 
than the Civilization developers who made a window based interface.

Today I had problems connecting to game servers (the website is ALSO 
down!), so I downloaded 2.05 from Sourceforge and installed it. To my 
enormous disappointment, I could see no improvement. When the game is 
launched, 2 windows appear at the same time, which is ugly to start 
with. Then, in game, tabs have been replaced by windows, requiring many 
more clicks to accomplish the same tasks.

The new windows look very ugly on Windows.

If I leave the windows open, pressing F1, F2, F3, F4 does NOT bring them 
to the top!!!!! I have to CLICK on the taskbar to open the window I 
want! And I don't know which window that is because of the window title!

I looked for some options to set but could find nothing that would bring 
the tabbed UI back.

PLEASE revert to the tabbed UI, how could you even think of throwing it 
away?

Now you have a broken website ("Waiting for www.freeciv.org...", says 
Firefox), a broken game metaserver AND a release with a broken UI!

Please do not disappoint me further by not replying to this.

Sincerely,

Nando
http://www.oui.com.br/n/