Unable to enable 3D mode

[Adam McMaster]

Binary package hint: gnome-chess

When choosing 3D from the view menu, Gnome Chess displays a message telling the user to ask their system administrator to install "OpenGL Python bindings" and "GtkGLExt Python bindings". This could be confusing to less-experienced users. Gnome Chess should either depend on the relevant packages, should offer to install them (in the same way shares-admin offers to install Samba) or should hide the 3D option if it is not usable.

[Scott Zawalski (cowbud)]

Is this the chess you are running from Applications->Games->Chess?

[Adam McMaster (adammc)]

Yes it is, I assumed that would have been gnome-chess, though now I check it's actually glchess 2.17.91 from gnome-games.

[Scott Zawalski (cowbud)]

Great that is what I need to know. I have confirmed your bug as I have the same issue with gnome-games version: 1:2.17.91-0ubuntu1 on feisty.

This is basically an enhancement request, it is reasonable to expect glchess to ask the user if they wish to have those installed or have the packages required for 3d chess to be installed by default.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.