2008/5/22 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just a thought here: IMHO it would greatly improve the
> usablity already if the settings menue is reworked to a
> dialog based interface that collects the various submenu
> items into single dialogs. I think e.g. about
> Options/Chessboard and all the submenues and the others are
> similar.
>
> I don't know 8.5 internals, but maybe one could start
> collecting this into a more commonly used dialog interface
> based on 8.4 (e.g. board size just being a slider there,
> stuff like that) and do it such, that it could even be
> reused in the porting to 8.5 that way that one could end up
> with a notebook based interface.
>
> I see Pascals and Michals point about the widget problem.
> Surely e.g. notebooks can not easily provided in 8.4. Hence,
> one could say this widget is "out of question" for the
> moment. But probably other widgets, closer to the 8.4 could
> really be wraped to use this or that interface and thus
> offer a smooth transition.
I don't think it is efficient to make a double step here. If the options
menu is to be reworked, I would do it only with Tk 8.5, and once for all.
>
>
> One of my concerns is, that if today scids ui is changed to
> require 8.5 it makes up a box that could really end up in a
> huge efford that could have a problem with completion. I'd
> not be too ambitous as we all do the things in our spare
> time. (and most likely cleaning up scids UI is not as funny
> as implementing a new function one is looking for for years
> ;)
>
With the experience I now have with migrating Scid Pocket from Tk 8.4 to
8.5, I can say it is not such a hard task to do, and ending with something
more user-friendly brings enough satisfaction to be motivated in the task.
>
> > Cleaning this stuff up to make a consistent and more
> > standard UI would be effort better spent, and would not
> > preclude moving to a newer tk version later.
>
> I agree here.
I don't. I prefer a single step : more time efficient.
Pascal
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