CivGroups suggestion

[Asher]

Would it be possible to set the ALT text on the civgroup image icons so we can see what, exactly, the group is when we put the mouse over it?

I see lots of silly looking icons and I haven't a clue what they mean.

What's more, when I click on the icon to see what it is, the member listing doesn't say the group name anywhere?

Am I the only one who has noticed this?

PS: The CivGroups column on a CivGroup member listing is broken, all it shows is the current CivGroup icon you're viewing for all the people, it doesn't show other groups they're in.

[H Tower]

well, i'll explain the ones i'm using for you

1.Civ2 Democracy Game (hopefully you know what a democracy game is)
2.Civ2 PBEM =Civ 2 Play by email multiplayer
3.Ctp2 Democracy Game, same as the Civ2 demo game, only with Call to Power 2
4.Nation States, this one is harder to explain. There's a simulation on another website where you lead a nation and get presented with domestic issues, (how to spend your budget, religous issues, people wanting to walk around nude) and the solutions to each dillema reflect on your nation's form of government. the game gives a measure of your political freedoms, economy and civil rights. We role play as the leaders of the nations we lead, making trade agreements, having disputes solved by an elected court, etc, etc.

[alva]

Try this one:

http://apolyton.net/forums/civgroups.php

top right hand side of the screen

[Asher]

Still, it's a really stupid design IMO.

It's like something a Linux guru would do when designing a UI. "Don't know what it is? RTFM yarr!"

[Skanky Burns]

I'd agree - they puzzle me too.

[DrSpike]

Seeing what it is when you put the mouse over the icon sounds useful.

[MarkG]

Asher, learn to ask for people to do stuff in a nice way....

[DrSpike]

Well his first post was polite.

[MarkG]

then he should learn to stay nice at least until he gets a response

[TCO]

It's a good suggestion, Mark. I agree that Glonk can be annoying as all computer geeks can be. Especially when it takes them so long to think about things from a user (non-technical) perspective. For instance, I can still find several easily fixed problems in Word, IE, etc. in terms of user usage.

[ixnay]

What's this? My sensors are picking up increased signs of an impending argument...

[H Tower]

yeah, GP's good for those

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
Asher, learn to ask for people to do stuff in a nice way....

It wouldn't kill me if you didn't do it, Mark. I don't belong to any CivGroups and don't think I ever will, I'm just giving input on something incase you care about improving your site.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Asher
Still, it's a really stupid design IMO.

It's like something a Linux guru would do when designing a UI. "Don't know what it is? RTFM yarr!"

too true.

thats oen of the major things that keeps me in the dark about linux. the UI's usually suck major.

::shudders at the gimp::

[Asher]

Originally posted by GP
It's a good suggestion, Mark. I agree that Glonk can be annoying as all computer geeks can be. Especially when it takes them so long to think about things from a user (non-technical) perspective. For instance, I can still find several easily fixed problems in Word, IE, etc. in terms of user usage.

I've never had a problem looking at things from a user's perspective...that's why I still insist Windows is leaps and bounds ahead of Linux on the desktop, because the Linux GUIs are all inconsistent kludgey assy things that don't make much sense to anyone but a CS major.

There are lots of things in Windows I wish I could change too, but it's still better than Linux.