[crossfire] GTK2 Client (Metaserver Dialog RFC)
Kevin R. Bulgrien
kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jul 21 23:10:42 CDT 2007
Since I mumbled about the GTK2 client, and since I had dabbled in the glade designer
tool (a long time ago), I thought about digging into the client...
I dislike having to mouse to the quit button on the metaserver dialog. I know that
alt-f4 will kill the window and app, but that is awkward too. Does anyone care if I add
an Escape key as an accelerator for the Quit button on that dialog? This works to
close the dialog and application whether or not a server has been selected.
To tell people about the feature, I added a tool tip to the Quit button that says:
Escape also quits.
While working on that dialog, I made some small cosmetic changes. The changes
involve add padding to theelements at the bottom of the dialog so that widgets
have a small amount of spacing between each other and between the bottom edge
of the panel.
Also, I prefer to see more of the Server Comment field than having wide column
titles. I propose changing
"# Players" -> "Players"
"Last Update (sec)" -> "Updated (Sec)"
I also propose removing "IP Addr" since all entries use the same value as they give
for "Hostname".
See http://krayvin.home.att.net/metaserver.png for the proposed changes. I made
the Glade changes in the Glade Designer.
I would like to check in my changes. Is everyone okay with that?
Kevin R. Bulgrien
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