Re: Gtali

[Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>]

> I submitted a couple of my changes to Bugzilla yesterday (Bug #137104),
> and have made a few more changes since then. In his feedback, Callum
> McKenzie alluded to an upcoming UI "shake-up" sometime after the 2.6
> release. I was wondering if this means there's a list of pending UI
> improvements on the back burner that I could be working on instead of my
> own random changes.
The list as it exists is a bit random too :).

Richard filed a series of gtali bugs in bugzilla that don't require, but
imply, some UI changes. The one that springs to mind is the selection of
human/computer players and changing names. i.e. almost the entire
preferences dialog could be better.

What I had in mind was to have the list of names as editable entries (as
they currently are) and then beside them a drop-down list to select
human/computer/none. The current "number of players" entries could then
disappear. This also requires some back-end changes in the code, but
Richards bugs make that necessary anyway.

The other thought is to incorporate this behaviour into the tops of the
columns in the main display, but that would probably look a bit messy.
Any suggestions for making the main display cleaner and easier to read
are also welcome.

Some improvements to how keyboard interaction works would also be good.
Currently you can play with the keyboard, but it is not as easy as it
could be.

Of course any ideas are worth suggesting. Just remember the GNOME ethos
of keeping it simple and easy.

 - Callum