On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:05 +0200, "h.g. muller" <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO it is a real > problem that XBoard does not remember any of its settings, although proper > use of .Xdefaults (which I have no idea how to do as a non-Linux user) does > solve most of that.
Yes, the save-settings stuff in WinBoard is much more user friendly than xboard. xboard has used the old-fashioned "X resource" infrastructure (which gtk/gnome seems to have abandoned, btw) for settings and command-line parsing since before I started working on it. Windows doesn't have that stuff, so I designed something new for WinBoard that was pretty successful, but I never backported it to xboard and broke away from the X resource stuff. Maybe the gtk+ version is the time to make that break and add save-settings support. Alternatively, you could add save-settings support in the Xaw version by saving the settings in a file called "~/XBoard", in X resource format -- xboard will parse X resources from such a file. That's kind of intriguing because it keeps compatibility with the existing xboard way of doing things. -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/
