Hi > I posted the following proposal on TalkChess for feedback. > Not sure what I would have to do with a Windows menu for now. > I think the control of auxiliary windows belongs in View more than n > Windows.
AFAIK the Windows menu is for open Windows to get them to the front or arrange them... perhaps not needed for XBoard... As for the menu structures, see comments below... although I guess my comments would mean changes in the code and not just rearranging of entries... > Main menu bar items: > File > Edit > View > Mode > Action > Engines > Options > Help > > File menu: > New Game > New Shuffle Game... > New Variant... can't we just have one entry here (new game) and set the variant in the mode menu? That is have a Mode entry: "Variant/Type..." and you can choose there what type of game you play. > ------------------------ > Load Game... > Load Position... > ------------------------ > Save Game... > Save Position... > ------------------------ in the long run it would be nice to just have a load/save and load determines if it's a game or position on the content of the file or the file extension. Similar for saving it would be nice to have an option in the saving window to select game or position (and for example automatically choose position if there is no history,etc) instead of having two entries in this menu... > Save as Diagram... > ------------------------ > Quit > > Edit menu: > Copy Game to ClipBoard > Copy Position to ClipBoard > Copy GameList to ClipBoard > ------------------------ > Paste Game from ClipBoard > Paste Position from ClipBoard > ------------------------ > Edit Tags > Edit Comment > Enter Username > ------------------------ > Edit Game > Edit Position > ------------------------ > Revert > Annotate > Truncate > ------------------------ > Backward > Forward > To Start > To End > > View menu: > Show Engine Output > Show Move History > Show Eval Graph > Show Game List > ICS Input Box (XBoard-only) > Open Chat Window > Type In Move I would get rid of the "Show" and "Open", since they are already in the View I would just say "Engine Output", "Move History", etc. makes it more consistent IMHO... can we combine ICS Input Box with type in move? I guess you could type in a move into ICS box and it does the move and sends it to the ICS and everything else would be handled as ICS input (if in ICS mode), else just do the move test. > Options menu: > Flip View > Swap Clocks > Mute all Sounds are these really the 3 most needed options? Else I would put them into general or somewhere else... flip view I can understand, but the other two I for example never use, switching the clocks, I actually find confusing ;) > ------------------------ > General... > Sounds... > ICS... > Communications... > ------------------------ > Load Game... > Save Game... > Game List... > ------------------------ > Time Control... > Adjudications... > Common Engine... Perhaps the engine setting from the engine menu should go into here... and then we would have an engine section here (separted by ------) or this should go into the engine settings > GUI Book... > Match... > ------------------------ > Save Settings Now > Save Settings on Exit save settings on exit should go into general I would say > Help Menu: > Help... > ------------------------ > About... > ------------------------ > English > Español > Deutsch Not sure if we really want an entry for each language.. I know that we don't support that many at the moment, but in principle this could become a very long list ;) I would say it would be better to just have a help and show the default language the user is using or if not available the english one and then of course have a section on how to change languages in the help file. just my two cents Arun
