[eboard-devel] Re: My experience with eboard

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Miguel wrote:

> Hello.

Hi. wrong mailing listing, I'm replying to the correct one.

> Here is some cases when my eboard crash:

These will eventually get fixed. But 'I try to run a program that I don't
and the program does not run' is in the same category of 'I try to fly
jumping from the cliff but I have no wings.'

> The option to have an window to each channel is very useful. But in
> this window we could have an alias to not have to type tell channel XX
> every time .

I'm still considering usability issues for this. What I'll probably do is
have a key that toggles the mode of the input box, between 'normal',
'channel tell', and , in the case of bughouse, 'ptell'.

> In the game window, could have an space to receive tells from the
> opponents or kibitz and whispers from observers. For example, when you
> are observing LectureBot, you have to switch windows to see the table
> and the kibitz from the bot.

Windows -> Detached Console is the official response to this.
Adding more and more stuff to the board display is bad. The code is
already more confuse then good code should be. The bughouse pane and fixes
to animation is all confusion I'll add to board.cc.

> When I switch windows in the program, I have to click the mouse in the
> text field to select it, directly type the text don't work. The
> program could do this automatic. When you change window, keyboard
> point to the text field.

Hit F8 (supposing your window manager/Gnome/KDE/XFCE doesn't grab that
key) and focus goes to the input box. Help -> Keys is your friend.
Killing completely the concept of widget focus isn't a good idea. I can't
really explain why, I just feel it isn't. Looks like we're killing the
default GTK behavior non-technical users expect from their 'integrated
Gnome desktop'.

And, that may sound funny, but it's a matter of getting the hang of it. As
long as the F-keys (F3,F4...F8) aren't taken by the window manager, I feel
that navigating thru panes with the F-keys is much better than clicking
the tabs. And focus stays where I want it. (F3 and F4 move to previous and
next tab, F5 to main board, F6 to console, F7 to Seek Graph, F8 just
throws the focus to the input box. All F-keys send focus to the input box)

> I have an DSL connection and have installed the timeseal (when I type
> finger , its say my timeseal is on). But I fell that I am losing much
> seconds in matches without increment. I play fast, but I don't know if
> program is correcting the lag properly. Maybe some tests on this.

eboard has nothing to do with how timeseal encodes the timestamp, that's
exclusively timeseal's problem. timeseal can't possibly work one way with
eboard and another with xboard.
Now, if you have animation enabled, that may be causing delays in the
perception of the opponent's movement.

> In the drag and drop, when you hold a piece, it stay "blinking". It
> don't look solid, but "shaking" a bit. If you are holding a piece and
> opponent moves, the program show an strange animation that
> disconcentrate you.

In 0.2.5 ? The blinking should have been fixed in 0.2.5. I'll check the
'strange animation'.

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