Hi >> I guess the normal highlighting works, but having the piece move is nice >> IMO:) > > The reason was that with the width of the grid lines set to zero, as people > that like to use fancy board textures often do, (and is mandatory on an > oriental-style Xiangqi board) the normal highlighting is completely > inisible.
if the grid line is set to zero, the move highlight could be drawn inside the square for example... but I guess this is another topic... >> So hitting the ctrl key doesn't seem that problematic... We also have >> almost all functions/menu items on ctrl+... keys, so why make an >> exception for this one? > > Well, if you don't use other formsofhighlighting,I suppose you need it > very often. not if you are paying attention ;) Even with highlighting off, I think I would only use this every now and then while observing games. > There are reasons for wanting keystrokes to be easy, as well > as for wanting them to be difficult. true, I just don't see this one as an action that needs to be available on a single key... > E.g. I very often get complints about > F9 (= resign). People get very pissed when they resign acidentally, yes, F9 is very critical ;) We could add an option that adds a "are you sure?" dialog, if you hit F9 again you resign, every other key cancels. Should be optional though... > Fact is thatpeople complain when frequently used actions need two keys. > I moved 'backward' and 'forward' to Alt+Arrow, but was pretty much forced > to move it back to plain arrows to escape a lynching mob... I guess it would help us if we knew how often these functions are used that way we could move things that are used all the time to F-keys... One thing we could do in the long term is to move all functions to ctrl+<key>, that is including resign, etc. and have a mechanism for the user to easily modify the F-keys to be used as whatever they want. hmm, most of this seems OT to the bug... guess I better stop here ;) ARUN _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
