Lalo Martins wrote: > A discussion we had a while ago when the v2 client first appeared: > > Many laptops on the market today aren't able to do more than 1024x768, > and that isn't about to change any time soon. > > I *normally* play on my PC, but if I ever became unable to play on the > laptop, I would be very disappointed.
The biggest challenge there is that the v2 client appears to use a system defined font, so unless that font is pretty small, the v2 client cannot be as tight as the v1 GTK client. > Generally, your layout reminds me of the v1 client, which makes me ask: > if you're going to have 3 columns, why not put the map in the middle? Sure, that layout was done mostly to see if I could do a new layout... As such, I changed as few widgets as I could. I feel the same about having the map in the middle, and intend to redo a layout in the v1 client format shortly, but my development system motherboard had a SATA controller go out on it the day after I posted all that, so I've been distracted temporarily. As far as redoing the layout with the map in the middle goes, as a right- handed mouse user, I think I may prefer having the inventory on the right and the messages on the left, but now that I've done it a couple of times, doing both a lefty and a righty version would be pretty easy. > Now, on the subject of layouts: > > I think it would be a neat idea if the v2 client used libglade, and > allowed the user to choose a layout file in the preferences dialogue. > Yeah, that would probably require a client restart to take effect, and > for best results we should include thumbnail screenshots with the glade > files and find a way to display them in preferences; but overall it > shouldn't be too hard, and if people are serious about writing different > layouts, it might be worth it. I mentioned as much on IRC... yes, libglade would be neat. I'd have to get a lot more comfortable with Glade and the client code to try it myself. (I was able to do the re-layout without touching any of the client code.) I think, though, unless it was easy, it seems there may be better things to do than convert the client to use libglade. It's not like you have a lot of options on layout unless you have an obscenely large display - and that's not a problem I have, and it doesn't seem to be a problem a lot of players have. > Of course, my preference would be for using a widget similar to the > Gimp's dockable panes, so an user can change the layout at runtime. But > I looked around and found no such widget in a library format. > > best, > Lalo Martins _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire