User changable text colour

[Lee Smith]

It would be nice if the text colour for building description and statuses (s and c keys) could be changed via a menu option.
The current yellow colour is hard to read on some maps (particularly in winterland)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

This sounds like a great idea. If this option is added, I think it should be available in the in-game menu, rather than settings from the main menu (or perhaps both places?). This way, a player can change the color after loading the map if he/she discovers the default color does not fit the current map.

Textcolor was also discussed a while back in LP #580905, btw.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Ops! I tried to link to bug #580905 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/580905)

[SirVer (sirver)]

How about making the text in a color defined by the world (tileset)? Making it completely user definable is a lot of work, adding some keys to the conf entry of a world much less so.

[Lee Smith (djleehaha)]

I would prefer to see it user changeable but defining it by world is better than what we have.
And if it is a conf entry then I can change it in the conf files right?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

The description and status were recently given a small dark shadow, giving them better contrast to the terrain. (See bug 927110) With this in place, I wonder if this is still considered necessary.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Noone can know I guess. I set to incomplete while we test the new
shadows. We can then decide in 60 days.

  status incomplete

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[SirVer (sirver)]

Another 60 days for b17 to get around.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[SirVer (sirver)]

I feel the shadows are okay. I can read the texts quite clearly now. Does everybody agree?