Re: [Bug-gnubg] A suggestion for some of the windows

[Øystein O Johansen]

> Along with the Italian translations, I received a suggestion which
> has more than a little merit, but might conflict heavily with the
> proposed changes to the GUI, so I'm putting it forward for
> consideration:
>
> Users with limited screen area might appreciate the ability to
> specify which columns appear in the Hint and Analysis windows. If
> most of the time, your concern is the cubeful/cubeless equities,
> then you can save a lot of screen space by supressing some or all
> of the figures for wins, gammons, etc.

Yes, in the GUI redesign version I'm working with at my home computer,
I have removed all win, gammons, etc. from these two windows.

As a temprary hack, I have added a button called "Show details" into
the button tools. I have _not_ written the callback function for this
button, but I whould love to have some suggestions of what the
callback functions should do. Open a new window? Recreate the
movelist with the detailed properties as it is today? (Which will
resize a lot of objects on the screen since it's so much wider.)
Try to put it into a GtkList instead of a GtkCList, and there
use two lines for the information? Show the detailed probabilities
as tooltips over the moves? Other suggestions?

> I can see that this should not be hard to implement, but how
> would it fit in with a re-designed GUI?

Can I commit the GUI redesign code, without the callback to the
"Show details" button? Then you can all see how it looks, and
make some suggestions.

> And related to this, the handlebox method of allowing users to
> tear off and repositon windows or dock them back again would
> suit me fine while still allowing those who want a monolithic
> window to have their own tastes catered to.

I have changed my mind about the handle boxes. I have made a
toolbar toggle button to hide and show the analysis panel.
(The analysis panel is the game record and the annotation window
packed in the main board on the right hand side.)

-Øystein



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