Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35000] Temporary previous position ("." key, former Ctrl) conflicts with start of Type a move

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

On 12/06/2011 02:58 PM, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> URL:
>   <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35000>
>[...]
> The Ctrl key was in earlier versions used to temporary show previous position,
> but the function is now default bound to the "." key. However there it
> conflicts with the "Type a move" function.
> 
> When you press "." two things happen:
> 1) The previous position is displayed
> 2) The Type a move window pops up with a "."
> 
> When you release "." nothing happens. The shown position is not restored.

The bugreport also mentions the "-" key for iconify...

I had a quick look and also found shift-1 and shift-2 that could
conflict with text-input (they send commands directly to chess engine 1
or 2).

I would suggest to move shift-[1,2] to ctrl-[1,2]. Perhaps we can move
"." to "Ctrl+.".

Also, do we need the "-" key? I think "iconify" should be a task for the
window manager and we shouldn't even be implementing this. So I would
say, we remove the iconify function.

cheers
        ARUN