[crossfire] GTK V2 client default layout and map size

[Mark Wedel]

  So I played around a little bit last night with making the map deal with size 
requests properly.

Just to play around, I made two minor changes:  In the glade layout file (in 
this case, I used the gtk-v2 glade file), I removed the size specification in 
the drawingarea_map widget.

  In the gtk-v2/src/map.c file, I removed the gtk_widget_set_size_request() on 
the drawingarea.

  Both of those seem critical, as without them, they set what seems to be the 
minimum size the drawingarea can be, and won't let me resize it smaller (I can 
move the viewpanes, but the window stays the same size and it doesn't generate 
any configure requests).

  Now one might thing that isn't that big a deal - it will figure out the right 
layout on its own.  Unfortunately, this is not the case, and glade does some 
whacky things - see:

http://tavern.santa-clara.ca.us/cf/gtk-v2-layout.png

  This in spite of the fact that the map area and stat vpane is set with 
specific placement.  And what I find even odder is that it screws up the 
inventory area - this seems like an effort on glade to try and align things.  If 
I put the size specification back in the glade file (but still have that code 
change), it puts things in the right place.

  Also, if I go and move the panes around into the right spot, and then save off 
the window position, next time I run the client, things are in the right place.

  Now these placements seem to be an issue related to glade, and probably not 
something we can solve mucking in my code.

  But my thought is this - since saved window placements work out fine, what 
about including default window placements as part of SVN?

  When the client runs, it can look for these placements in the normal install 
area if it doesn't fine a user customized one (if it finds a user customized one 
in their homedir, it ignores that global one).  This fixes any odd placement 
issues, and I think will actually make the glade stuff a bit more morphable, as 
I suspect a fair number of layouts may have various size settings for things to 
'look' right, which may not be quite the right thing.

  Another thought related to this is that I could also perhaps see different 
versions of these window positions for different resolutions.

  For example, a new user running on a laptop with a 1440x900 resolution screen 
fires up the client.  The client can do a pretty simple query to see what the 
resolution is.  It decides the layout.1280x1024 isn't good (won't all fit on the 
screen), but that layout.1024x768 does, so it uses that.

  A user running on an old laptop (800x600) has it use the layout that actually 
works right on that size.

  Making all these different resolutions files would be a pain, and probably 
only really necessary for whatever is the default layout.  But there is no 
reason that these layout files should be any different than the .pos files saved 
in the .crossfire directory, so would be very easy for users to contribute them 
(in that 1440x900 case, the user might say 'here is the layout I use for this 
resolution')