When a new player installs and runs gtk-client for first time, it seems the window pane sizes are causing issues where these new players can't even see their characters on the map be default. Also, some panes (like the "View" pane - items on floor) are overly large as opposed to the tiny "Messages" and "Inventory" panes that are practically useless at their small default sizes.
We probably need some better defaults.
Partial progress on this issue committed in 79cf689c.
gtkv1.ui is pretty awful. This didn't used to be the case. Now player status are all garbled up in to other UI elements. What makes this especially annoying is that finding the resize grab points is kind of tricky because they are invisible (also pretty sure this used to not be the case).