[Freeciv] Re: Odp: Re: question: CivII like tileset for FreeCiv

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:01:44PM -0500, Tony Stuckey wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:58:06PM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> > Also -- Marco, ask your friend whether he needs special tiles for 
> > terrain, cities, etc.  If someone decides to do this, they may as well 
> > do a thorough job of it.  (And along with the accessibility options in 
> > GTK 2.0, this could make Freeciv a popular game for the visually 
> > impaired.  Maybe the only strategy game with such support?)
> 
>       Not the only.  SMAC had edited graphics which were supposed to be
> better for color-blind people, etc.
>       Having a greyscale-only tile set might be interesting.

Now you mention this, I feel encouraged to mention a similar
problem. The Freeciv minimap is bad for the color-blinded,
even partial color-blinded, i.e red-green-blind (which is a 
common term though it's not clear defined what lack of sight
it describes AFAIK).

Some experiments with a friend of mine turned out, that the
special composition of colors in the minimap is the problem,
not the use of colors at all.

So, adjustable colors here would be nice.

Christian

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