Re: [XBoard-devel] Fwd: 4.9.0 what's new

[H.G. Muller]

Op 4/3/2016 om 9:07 PM schreef Joshua Pettus:
> TBH,  I’m starting to question whether or not that actually is desirable (Even 
> though it’s the way winboard works) People want the clock to be big enough to 
> read and see who’s turn is at a glance.  Any bigger, and it’s just taking up 
> space that really would be better used by the chess board, and any smaller it 
> is illegible.  After using a fixed size clock for a while, I’m starting to 
> prefer it. I feel the board can be whatever size, but the clock is fine fixed.
That makes sense, but unfortunately the clock size couples to the logo 
size. The GTK version divides the width in 4 equal parts, the two outer 
for the logos. But the logos are in an aspect-ratio frame, coupling 
their width to their height, but setting no minimum for those. So the 
height will be determined by the clock font. Having a small font will 
make very small logos, which I personally think is quite ugly. So 
because I want big logos I also need a big clock font. It is also not 
clear to me why you would need large pieces if you can read small 
letters. But I think the decisive issue is that people that want the 
same fnt size always can configure that anyway if there is automatic 
font sizing.
> All this seems related to Adrian’s  i3wm problem.   Maybe there is a way to 
> make the board drawing more robust and kill two birds with one stone?
The i3wm problem looks like a missing expose event. Changing the size of 
a widget should cause such an expose event. But I suspect that the 
tiling manager does the sizing too early, so that at the point where 
XBoard relies on getting an expose event after changing the window size, 
it in fact gets nothing, because the window size stays the same, namely 
the size forced by i3wm.

I remember that Arun had problems too when using a tiling WM. And that a 
new option -fixedSize that I added would mostly solve that. (It would 
pack clocks and board into an extra container widget with a fixed aspect 
ratio.)
> Josh