Author: Kunnar Klauks
Date: 23:33:19 06/25/03
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>I have tried Eboard, and frankly I don't like it. It doesn't >support ICC as much as Jin, and the board and pieces are not that beautiful. >Xboard is terrible in terms of graphics and user-friendliness. These are just my >humble optinions ! I thought also that XBoard is terrible, but the more i use it the more i like it. Board and pieces are actually looking great. Pieces are sliding nicely. Very fast, best interface for lightning and blitz games. Lot of functionality, and very configurable. You have to change .Xresources file to configure it, its sure minus. But at least you can configure fonts, colors, sounds, keyboard shortcuts etc. Configuring shortcuts is very cool, look at man xboard to see all functions that can be bound to keys. For example, i configured XBoard so that DEL key is shortcut for retract move, its default behaviour in Winboard but not in XBoard. Menus and dialogs are looking bad because of old Athena widget set, and you have to manually change .Xresources file to configure, these are minuses. But its still good interface.
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