Re: [XBoard-devel] Working towards a 4.6.0 release

[h.g. muller]

At 09:41 29-12-2011 -1000, Arun Persaud wrote:
> another option for saving space for "black" and "white" in the clocks 
> would be to write the string above the time string. That way we would have 
> a lot more horizontal space for it. The font could be sized as min(user 
> requested, width of element) or something similar.

Have you seen how it currently looks in WinBoard (with -autoLogo on)?
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/WinBoard/marble.png


> there was the issue of renaming chess program to chess engine... I started 
> this in a separate branch called engine. Would be good if people could 
> read through the diffs and test it.

Ah, yes. I am not in favor of such unneccesary changes, and they are more 
relevant to translations than to the English version. People can already 
translate themeu items any way they want; that does not require anyy change 
in the English menu texts.

Engine is in fact a rather ridiculous term, and it translates very poorly 
in most languages. (E.g.in German you used Schachprogramm, in Dutch I use 
the abbreviation Schaakprog, for lack of a good translation. Arena uses 
'Motor' in German, and every German I have spoken so far thinks that this 
is ridiculous, and sometimes even a reason to switch it to English!) The 
usual term for this kind of thing is plug-in (and this is indeed how the 
Qianhong GUI calls its 'engines'), or more specific, AI or brain module.

If we change it, I would be in favor of using 'AI-module' rather than 
'Engine'. But that is as good a reason not to change it as any...

H.G.