Quoting "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John W Bjerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I won't deny that he couldn't find the "end turn" button, but IMHO he >> did not correctly >> diagnose *why* he had the problem. >> >> Unless he has a badly calibrated monitor, or a vision problem, he can >> indeed SEE >> the button, but he didn't know where to look, and somehow didn't >> notice it. >> I daresay he had no trouble clicking on this "invisible" button after >> he found it. >> >> It's not the fault of the UI styling (which he blames) but his >> unfamiliarity of the UI, >> possibly combined with insufficient emphasis on this particular button. >> Making everything more "contrasty" would not increase the overall ease >> of use. > > Your theorizing is contradicted by Ken's direct report. If he says (and > I quote) "I simply couldn’t SEE it", it is denying reality for you to > assert that he must have been able to see it. > > You are blaming the victim of bad design in order to exonerate the design. > Artists do this way too often and it's never helpful. Please don't repeat > this mistake; it leads to bad art and bad outcomes. > >> Having the end-turn button flash, glow or throb one you have moved all >> units, >> as in Civ IV could be a good idea, because it only attracts attention >> when needed. >> I don't know how easy that would be. > > I don't either. I am pretty sure that until we can do this, a static > color change would be a good idea. Let's not be distracted from the > possible by the ideal.
The main problem in my opinion would be deciding what exactly constitues "moving all your units". What if you've moved all your units except your leader, whose on your keep and you haven't recruited? What if you move your last unit next to an enemy, and can attack, but haven't chosen to yet? If we can come up with a reasonable algorithm though, I think this is a good idea, and shouldn't be hard to do. I think it'd also be great to show a message over the map at the bottom of the screen, "Press Ctrl+space to end your turn". > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
