Re: gnubg: new features

[Aaron Tikuisis]

Hi,

Thanks Philippe! We value the feedback!

The issue with being able to open multiple windows did concern us. We tried to resolve this by making it modal but had some issues there.

In fact we noticed that the "Hint" window isn't modal, and it can have strange behaviour (or seg fault) if you open "hint", then change things in the main window (like go back to an earlier move and play from there), and then interact with the old hint window. I tried to make "Hint" modal but struggled with it. If there's anyone who's very good with gtk and wants to help, I can try to reproduce/explain the issues I was having. Otherwise maybe we'll just leave it, since it isn't a terribly disruptive bug.

Best, Aaron

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From: Philippe Michel <philippe.michel7@free.fr>
Sent: November 30, 2020 6:07 PM
To: Isaac Keslassy <isaac@ee.technion.ac.il>
Cc: bug-gnubg@gnu.org <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>; Aaron Tikuisis <Aaron.Tikuisis@uottawa.ca>
Subject: Re: gnubg: new features

 

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 07:22:02PM +0200, Isaac Keslassy wrote:

> We are happy to present three new features of gnubg on which we have
> been working quite a lot. We hope you will enjoy them.

Well done. This gives access to a lot of useful information, yet in a
very natural and intuitive way.

Regarding the layouts, I don't like vertical 1 because the setiings are
much less readable than in vertical 2. The latter is more consistent
with the other gnubg widgets but on my small laptop with a 768 pixels
only screen height the scoremap windows are too high. The horizontal
layout is fine but vertical 2 with a smaller default window would be ideal.

I agree with Ian that the away scoring is more natural for this kind on
analysis. I'd prefer it to be the default.

I was a bit surprised to be able to open multiple scoremap windows. This
is not that useful by itself since there is no clear indication that
relates each window to the corresponding move. On the other hand, it
could be handy to not have to close such a window before opening another
one.