Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 discussion: Changes to OR Window?

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"buy privates" sounds like an action to me - why not group it with them,
but have it only visible when relevant?

Mike


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:58:58 +0100
>From: Stefan Frey <ste...@we...>
>To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>	<rai...@li...>, rai...@li...
>Subject: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 discussion: Changes to OR Window?
>Reply-To: "Development list for Rails: an 18xx game"
>	<rai...@li...>
>
>
>Hi,
>to get more feedback on the UI, I will try to make some more suggestions
>
>how to improve the Rails 2.0 UI.
>
>Those who tried the 2.0 beta already know that the buttons Confirm/Skip

>have been move to the top of the upgrade panel and are always visible 
>(green circle in the attached image).
>
>First reason for that was to avoid scrolling down the upgrade panel to 
>finalize the tile lay.
>
>I realized that now one has to use the buttons at the top of the upgrade
>
>panel for tile/token laying, but the buttons at the bottom of the OR 
>window for later actions (payout, buy trains etc).
>
>My suggestion is to make UI easier is:
>
>A) Remove the button panel at the bottom of the OR window.
>
>B) Move the undo/redo buttons to the bottom of the upgrade panel (always
>
>visible)
>
>C) Move the action buttons (payout/withhold/buy train) to the top of the
>
>upgrade panel. This implies that the action buttons will change 
>depending on the activity.
>
>Open question is where to move "Buy Private". One possibility is to move
>
>the buy Private button to a entry of the special menu? Or a separate 
>entry of the menu? Other ideas?
>
>Feedback and other/further ideas are welcome.
>
>Stefan
>
>Attachment: UI_buttons_comments.png
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