Gerd Lorscheid wrote:
Hi!
> I have created the following "default configuration:
>
> On the left there is the chessboard.
> On the right there is
> * A database switcher with three databases: "My games", "My analysis",
> "Reference database" loaded by startup through a shortcut
> * Game notation window
> * Game tree of the reference database
> * Analysis engine
> * Database listing window with deleted mark as first item.
>
>[...]
> So the interesting question
> is: How can this setup made easier for a user, who have not used chess
> databases for twenty years. An answer may be (if there is nothing better) to
> offer an wizard at the first startup which queries the needs of the user and
> setting up more complex environments.
The even more interesting question is, IMHO, how you'd want to explain a
new user what all those windows are about, why he wants several bases
opened, what a chess engine is and what the hell a database "tree"
means. And all that without him a) reading the manual b) trying to
understand the software at all and just asking him stuff like "do you
want a database switcher?" and "what is your reference base?". Besides
that fact that one of our FAQs is actually: "where can I get a good
database" next to "what is PNG".
IMHO(!) if you want to set up such a complex workspace as you do (mine
is not simpler ;), you know how to do it without any wizards. IMHO(!)
you have to grow into such things. And till you know what all this is
about it's probably better not to pop up 5 windows and 3 databases, but
just the chessboard where you can make some moves...
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