[Bug-gnubg] [Proposal] Reorg of Settings/options dialogs

[Massimiliano Maini]

I was trying to simplify the layout of the Settings/Options dialog, since some 
users
feels unccomfortable facin all gnubg options and settings:

1 Game tab:
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1.1 Start new games immediately: do we need this ? If it is unchecked (don't 
start immediately),
how do you start a new game via the GUI ? Using "new game" cryptic command ? 
ugly.
I see no usage for this in the GUI version.

1.2 Roll dice automatically: same as above. Do we need this in the GUI version ?

1.3 Play bearoff moves automatically: do we really need this ? I would say no.

1.4 Variations: I would put this in the dialog that pops up via "File/New" (or 
the "New" button).
That's the moemnt when you choose which kind of game you wanna play.


2 Merge Game, Cube and Match tabs into a Game tab
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Once the "Game" tab has been simplified, we could merge Game, Cube and Match 
tabs
into a Game tab, with sections:
        - Common options (allow drag to illegal, accept illegal
          and use doubling cube)
        - Money play (Crawford, Jacoby, Beavers, Auto-doubles)
        - Match play (Default length, MET)

3 Display tab:
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3.1 Clockwise movement: needed ? There's the toolbar button (probably easier to 
reach) ...

3.2 Move delay: needed ? Nah, just set it 300ms.

3.3 Show dice below board: needed ? Nah ...

3.4 Show PosID over the board (GNUBGID): Needed ? Just show it (except 
fullscreen mode).

3.5 Restore window positions: can we just have this default to ON ?

4 Other tab:
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        3.1 Confirm when aborting game: needed ? just defualt to ON.

        3.2 Confirm when overwriting: needed ? just defualt to ON.

        3.3 Record al games: needed ? just defualt to ON.

        3.4 Go to first game when loading : needed ? just defualt to ON.

        3.5 Display colors in game list: needed ? just defualt to ON. (OK maybe 
I'm being radical here).

5. New "Eval engine" tab:
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I would create it with the current cache size + num threads options, plus maybe 
infos
on available bearoff dBs, weight file version etc.I would also move here the 
"Analyze/Evaluation
speed" dialog (removing it from the Analyze menu).

MaX.