Since you ask, I perhaps should say that I am an old Unix hand and I fully subscribe to the "do one thing well" philosophy. Much of what I see from the SCID list server causes me to worry that SCID is on the path to becoming bloatware. There seem to be a great many calls for gingerbread with icing when perfectly good bread is already being served.
With specific regard to automated downloads from TWIC or anywhere else, I would much rather see this delivered in a separate executable than as an integral part of SCID. I hope those responsible for SCID's direction take into account that more and more "functionality" does not always add to the utility of a piece of software. From this point of view, ChessBase and Chess Assistant are very bad models to follow. In line with this, I find the thought of links in the game headers, which would undoubtedly call some sort of attention to themselves, pretty horrifying. If somebody wants this, it should be his burden to switch it on, not my burden to switch it off. On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 16:17 -0500, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > Hello Mark, > > You make many arguments that deserve consideration. > > But I am not sure I understand your reaction when you say: > > > Personally I would find built-in links in game headers quite annoying, > > so annoying indeed that I doubt that I would keep using SCID. > > In the TWIC case, it would be easy to strip down the unwanted header. > In fact, we already can: see the Maintenance window. > Would that be a fair compromise to you? > > *** > > Whatever gets decided with this case, > I am more interested in the general case, > to me, having interactive links in metainformation > can be good, at least internally. > > For example, when I browse books in a library, > I really like to be able to click on an author's name > to have all that authors' publications. > > This could apply to players, tournament, city, ECO, etc. > > Thank you for your comment, > > Best, > > Ben > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
