Re: [Bug-gnubg] Some screenshots of the new integrated GUI

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 14 Aug 2003 (14:20 +0200), Holger wrote:
> At 11:30 14.08.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:07:32PM +0200, Holger wrote
> >> I really think we should design the layout for a screen resolution of
> >> 800x600. While 1024x768 is already more or less common I don't think we 
> >can
> >> rely on it. There are still too many people with 15" monitors (me 
> >included).
> >
> >My personal opinion:
> >
> >We should design so it also works for 800x600, but users with low
> >resolutions may have to accept that they cannot show every gnubg window
> >at the same time.
> 
> But imho we should design it this way that we make best use of the little 
> space there is on 800x600 so there remains the least possible disadvantage 
> of not having a larger screen. People with bigger resolutions may of course 
> get the comfort of seeing e.g. more data at once or in a less cramped way.

This is where an option to have floating game and annotation windows
wins. I don't know if Windows supports forcing a window to the top,
but when I work with the current layout, I have 'list game' and 'show
annotation' bound to keys ^g and ^a. I can then pop up either window
without any real effort and I never have the entire top window
decoration of the board covered, so I can always raise that. It
actually works very well for me when I don't feel like shrinking the
board and re-arranging things so that all 3 are up at once. It may not
be the favourite thing with 800x600, but it's not impossible and
there's just no way to get all the information onto such a screen
comfortably. 

I don't know how hard it is to have an option which would allow
separate windows (and thus disable the panel button).

Agreed by the way about the point with the resign flag. I meant to
mention it myself. Similar issues apply to the
double/take/accept/beaver options.


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Jim Segrave           address@hidden