Make the RMB optional for playing widelands

[Tomasz Sterna]

Widelands interface uses right mouse button a lot. This is not feasible on touch screen devices (like Nokia Internet Tablets).

The attached patch changes the interface the following way:
- drag map with LMB
- use 5px drag threshold to register small drags as clicks
- double-click LMB on window frame and background to close windows
- single-click on icon grid highlights the button and shows description
- double-click on icon grid activates the button

[SirVer (sirver)]

Thanks for the report and your patch. However, the current interface works well for the mouse (and therefore for PCs). I see that other ways to control widelands are desirable for other devices, but changing the working interface for all devices because some do not support it seems rather radical.

I suggest reworking this patch into a feature that can be toggled via a option and keep the old behavior the default. A feature branch on widelands that implemented this would be most welcome.

Are you interested in tackling this Tomasz?

Ps: I reworded the bug description into this direction.

[Tomasz Sterna (smoku)]

Yup. I certainly understand your points.
My submition to Launchpad wasn't for integrating these changes, but rather for sharing and making it available for wider audience (other devices users might be interested). This was quickly hacked in, while porting Widelands for Nokia N900.

I will see into reworking it to a feature.
Compile-time toggle, or UI checkbox one?

[Raul Ferriz (raul.ferriz)]

Preferable checkbox one. So can be togled at runtime.

Many thanks!

[Nicolai Hähnle (nha)]

Since, as you said, this should be useful for other similar devices, I'm in favor of trying to merge such changes into trunk. It would be annoying to have a situation where a dozen patches are flying around without a clear direction (of course, bzr branches would make that somewhat more bearable, but if it can be integrated into trunk as a toggleable option, I think that's the way it should be done).

[SirVer (sirver)]

Nicolai, that was my intention. That's why I asked to have it toggable. I also suggest merging Tomasz work then. I just meant that having a branch on launchpad would make collaboration easier then patches, I should have phrased this more clearly.

[Mark Scott (mxsscott)]

This helps Macs as well. Widelands is awkward to play on a Macbook with a touchpad with single button.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]