ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27:11:05 09:03] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:08:37PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > While it might be interesting to display the clock optionally, I don't > > > think it is a good "default". > > > > I kind of like it when playing full screen, but I don't like its current > > position. It shouldn't collide with the "end turn" button. > > As it does when playing with most languages other than English. > 140 pixels is not enough to display "Eindig Beurt" and its various > variants as well as an 8 character clock. > > Since the two interface elements collide on most translations, I think > the clock should be removed in default.cfg and moved to a different > location in dfool.cfg.
Although I don't think I represent the majority of players I consider the clock a useful thing; regardless how high your resolution is, it can't be high enough for wesnoth, so I always use fullscreen. Besides that the scrolling doesn't work as smooth in windowed mode. I don't know about your setup, but I can't see my system clock when playing fullscreen, therefore I am quite happy about the clock in the dfool theme. So happy indeed that I didn't even notice that a clock was introduced in the default theme. ;-) At the moment, only a minority of wesnoth users is able to switch themes anyway, and those who are able can live with playing english. It doesn't make much sense to argue about a theme which only few people use. I would also leave the default theme as it was; I think it has been a good compromise for a long time. The point of all this is that it might be better to a) create more themes, or make themes user-editable and b) make theme switching easier to access (probably by putting this into the preferences, having a preview, ...) IMO this would be a solution in the spirit of wesnoth: if you think you have a good layout idea, contribute. If you think a clock is a good idea, include it; otherwise just leave it out. At some point in the future we might have 2-5 themes which are shipped with mainline wesnoth, and dozens of other themes striving to be added. For the developers this would mean to rather put more work into extending the theme framework than add more themes only a minority can use, or argue about changing an already proven theme. Let's hear some opinions on this :-) Cheers, majestyk
