First of all, thanks to you Alexander, and also to others, for the answers. As a common user, it is always nice to have attention from the developers and from other users, even though we can disagree on many points. Also, thanks for getting my feedback in the right way.
Some comments: The icons - I don't have a better set for the icons within the main windows, neither I am particularly good with the graphic. Still, I feel anything would be better than those. You can send me the old icons, and i can try to improve them. You will be free to accept my modifications, and apply them unless/until someone comes up with better ones. - The icon in the main window and the one "with the two pieces of hairs" should be one and the same, or at least very close. You should choose one and stick with it. They have been there since ages? Then what is needed is a restyle. For instance, one can take the one "with the two piece of hairs", eliminate the "two pieces" and turn from brown-ish to blue-ish or red-ish. Again, my graphic capabilities are close to zero, but i can make tests if you are really willing to change the icon. Splash screen I stand by my point. Just to make an example, when i launch OpenOffice it doesn't tell me that it has found a custom dictionary or that the spellchecker is activated on the Italian language. At least, it should not pop up per default. Junk stuff There are three separate points. - Everything should always be formatted, like shown below the chessboard. Showing a line such as [WhiteElo "2600"] looks like a development version. - You are showing twice the same information. Name, Elo, everything... is all duplicated. This is useless. Redundance might be tolerated if this info was formatted, but it would be even better to have it all just once. - When information is lacking, the "?" look like program errors. At startup I see the following three lines... Game 0: ? -- ? * (0) ???? ?: ? (?) ...This is really disappointing. Default chessboard When i installed Scid on Windows Vista, default were Merida + wooden chessboard. Eboard would be even worse... pieces look totally cheesy. :( I can help also with chess graphics, as you asked, but this is not the point. The point is that you can make Scid look much better already with what you have, just changing the default. Scid and other (non-chess) program This is the most delicate point, and it requires a little of attention. Please read the following with an open mind. Millions of people use hundreds of programs every day (like OpenOffice, Firefox, etc). This means that these people are used to behave in a certain way, no matter if good or bad. Many of these programs are designed by big corporates (such Microsoft, etc.) that pay great attention to usability. This means that most of their choices are the most appropriate (and that "no matter if good or bad" means "most likely good"). Most of those programs (such Excel) are databases, even if not *chess* databases. This means that they share some common things in the user interface. Now think about this: - When i open Excel, it creates a new file named Cartel1. Why giving not just a name, but also a number? And why not "[Cartel1]", with "[]" to remark that it is new? - Cartel1 is composed by 3 tabs (or "pages"). Why at the beginning you are within tab1, and not tab0 to remark that it is unsaved? And why this is not shown on the window bar as "Excel - Cartel1 - (tab 1/3)? I could go on with analogies, but i really hope you don't stick with my (almost) rethorical questions, and get the point. The more Scid would behave like this, the more dumb and monkey users like me (and yes, we are millions...) will like it. Greetings, Bruno. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
