[1.0.0] Train stop GUI is unnecessarily wide

[ickputzdirwech]

There is a huge gap between "R", "G" and "B" and their sliders. It is a bit confusing and also a waste of space. Tested with different GUI scales, full screen or not. My screen resolution is 1920 x 1200.

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[boskid]

Train stop gui has been reworked for 1.1 so this bug report may be obsolete. Still it will be a little wide but it is acceptable as for me.

[Zavian]

Personally I think that changing the text to "Red" "Green" "Blue" be more intuitive for non-technical folks who might not immediately understand what the letters "R" "G" "B" refer to. Would that be practical? Would that fill the empty space?

[valneq]

Personally I think that changing the text to "Red" "Green" "Blue" be more intuitive for non-technical folks who might not immediately understand what the letters "R" "G" "B" refer to. Would that be practical? Would that fill the empty space?

Well … if it is full words, it needs proper translations. Different languages have different words for the colors, each at different lengths. Would make it more inconsistent.

The abbreviation "RGB" for the color model is offten not translated but instead used as a standing technical term, and thus fairly well understood internationally.

[Zavian]

Well … if it is full words, it needs proper translations. Different languages have different words for the colors, each at different lengths. Would make it more inconsistent.

The abbreviation "RGB" for the color model is offten not translated but instead used as a standing technical term, and thus fairly well understood internationally.

The point is they aren't using the abbreviation RGB. Nor have they used R: [text box] G: [testbox] B: [textbox], where the three letters are obviously labels for three related numerical values.

Instead they have used

R [ slider ] [textbox]

G [ slider ] [textbox]

B [ slider ] [textbox]

It took me about 2 seconds to make the connection that the R was referring to Red, and this was an RGB entry dialog. Hence I feel it would have be better if they actually used the words red, green and blue, which would have removed any confusion about what the R stood for, and made the connection to colour obvious. (Admittedly removing the large gap between the letters and the slider will help).

And yes, changing the text implies the need to update translations.

[mrvn]

Nah, they should be using H, S and V.

Or a separate color selector that includes presets for some standard colors, presets generated from tints of ores and user defined presets.

[boskid]

There will be a color picker, similar to one in spidertron.