yek...@crocobox.org wrote: > I need to improve mockup until gentildemon says, that's perfect, we need > it implemented: > > http://www.wormux.org/wiki/Wormux_menu_mockup.php > > Your comments could help me > Hi yekcim,
My general impression is, that you haven't provide enough space for translations. You see, most of what is already in two lines will be in three after translation and one could check how it looks like after switching over few languages... The general rule while developing world-ready software is, that UI should be able to accommodate strings 130% longer than English. However, from my experience I can say that this is true for longer strings, let's say 15 characters long. For shorter (up to 8 chars) we have to make sure that 200% longer strings would be displayed correctly (and by correctly I mean tidy enough, current three-liners looks ugly). As you perhaps notice, it does not cover all strings - between 8 and 15 characters it is hard to make a right judgment, needless to say translated string length lies somewhere between 200% and 130%, usually around 150% - 160% (that's from my statistic sample). Less important stuff: Are this red title strings will be some font, or images? Currently we still have some hardcoded strings in images and it would be nice to get rid of them. Currently game options are tab-ordered. I guess you decided to put everything in one place. I don't think it is a good idea - final layout seem a bit to cluttered and it will also affect localizability. Maybe it would be better to re-think tab naming and group similar options together (i.e. personally I don't quite get it why Language is a separate tab, since it could be placed on Miscellaneous tab as well). BTW. Option dialog could be layout so that there is a list of topics on the left side (which means it should auto-switch to right side for Hebrew and other RTL languages) and large option pane next to it. It may not be the easiest way to do , but it would be surely immune to resolution changing (at least to some degree). Regards, Pawel. _______________________________________________ Wormux-dev mailing list Wormux-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wormux-dev
