Follow-up Comment #16, bug #27667 (project xboard):
OK, sorry, I forgot all about the other two points. The depth I have now
implemented in XBoard. Since in the 5 years that this feature exists in
WinBoard no one ever requested it there, I left WinBoard as it was. (So I
broke the equivalence of the duplicate code xengineoutput.c and wengineo.c
contain; when we re-organize the source this code should go to the back-end,
and I guess WinBoard will then automatically inherit this change.) So this
will appear in git shortly.
As to the icon (point 2): From looking at the code it seems to me this was
intended behavior. The clock icon is only needed in two-machines mode, to
indicate which engine is thinking if neither of them is pondering. In
machine-black / machine-white mode there are only two states, ponder or
thinking, and the ponder icon distinguishes those (with the ponder move
displayed next to it).
I actually like it that way; the less is displayed, the cleaner the display
looks. So I think it is good design philosophy to not display anything to
merely indicate something that is already implied by the situation. Even when
you would have to display something to indicate that same thing in other
situations, where it is not implied.
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