[crossfire] Announce: oroboros.glade for 1024x768 clients, et. al.

Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Mon Sep 3 21:11:27 CDT 2007


The latest of the new UI layouts for the GTK2/Libglade client has arrived.  It
is a layout designed for 1024x768 desktops, and is named oroboros.glade.  A
short description may be found below.  The other layouts in SVN, aside
from the original layout, are described as well.

- caelestis.glade       A tri-column layout with a tall inventory/floor panels
                        to the right. At the top middle, a two tab notebook
                        for character and skill/experience data sits above map
                        views beneath. To the top left is a three tab notebook
                        for core stats, critical messages, and protections. At
                        the lower left is the messages pane with entry box.

- chthonic.glade        A tri-column layout with a tall inventory/floor panels
                        to the right. At the top middle, a two tab notebook
                        holds the map views above a notebook for character and
                        skill/experience data.  To the top left is the critical
                        message box with the standard message box and command
                        input below.  The bottom left corner two tab notebook
                        houses protections and core statistics.

- gtk-v1.glade          An approximation of the original GTK client layout.

- meflin.glade          A player-suggested modification of an experimental 
                        layout, and as such, is probably subject to change.
                        Presently a map view notebook is at the top right with
                        messages and inventory/ground views sharing a tabbed
                        notebook to the left.  At the bottom rest the stat
                        bars and a three tab notebook for character information.

- oroboros.glade        A layout designed for 1024x768 desktops.  On the left
                        are a tabbed message window, inventory, and floor view.
                        To the right, at the top is a four tab notebook that
                        contains all of the character statistics, and below it
                        is the map view.  At 1024x768, the map view is 20x13.

Oroboros makes heavy use of tabbed notebooks to maximize the map area on a
small desktop, and so might even appeal to players that desire a layout
with less information visible all the time.

As a general note, presently it is very difficult, if not impossible to resize
the other layouts below 1280x1024.  Some thought is going into contriving a
way to make them more flexible, but no solution has materialized at the moment.

Kevin Bulgrien



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