From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9745 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2004 05:51:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9737 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2004 05:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.170.84) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2004 05:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@67.123.174.46 with plain) by smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2004 05:51:39 -0000 Subject: Re: Changing the Standard Game From: Lincoln Peters To: Xconq list In-Reply-To: <20040903061032.12825.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040903061032.12825.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094277237.32432.6242.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:46:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01101.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 23:10, Elijah Meeks wrote: > For most of the people who pop on here > and post once or twice, this game IS XConq A better interface (specifically a better "Welcome" screen) might make it clearer to most players that Xconq is not just one game (important for those who enjoy strategy games that are based on something other than World War II). I can envision a "Welcome" screen that looks like the following (which, as usual, I designed with Glade without having to write any code): http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome1.png http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome2.png http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome3.png http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome4.png http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome5.png http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/welcome6.png What I did here was use a GNOME "Druid" to produce a setup window with multiple pages (known to Windows users as a "Wizard"), much like the existing "Welcome" screen for the TclTk interface but with a layout that (I think) is more visually appealing. Furthermore, as soon as you click "Apply", you could theoretically jump to the existing SDL interface and thus leave behind anything that even remotely resembles an Office app. --- Lincoln Peters Your good nature will bring you unbounded happiness.