Some people that are using XBoard with external pixmaps complain that they get error messages for the new piece types, like
Error -1 loading XPM file "/home/roy/xboard/merida/cocoa/fll72.xpm" Now this error should be non-fatal, but I can imagine that people get annoyed because they suddenly get multiple error messages where before they got none. This does violate the guideline of reproducing old behavior as closely as possible. Shall I still make a patch in xboard.c to suppress this error message when the piece type is "non-essential", and replace it by loading the corresponding king pixmap? Missing pixmaps of un-orthodox pieces would then not give error messages, but people would discover soon enough that something is amiss when they start to play variants containing these pieces. This behavior would furthermore be similar to that when using built-ins for certain board sizes, which is described in manual, and as a warning in the New Variant dialog. I think this is an easy patch with not much risk to break anything. So I could still do it before we tag as bet2 (or 4.4.0), and it could save us a lot of angry complaints. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
