I have the following usability issues with scid:
I am used to have a small database containing games with my own analysis. To
update one of these games I open it, search for interesting positions, look
for (new) games in my large reference database with this position, replay
them and then update my game and replace it in my small database. This use
case is essential for a chess database application and perfectly supported
e.g. by chessbase. When I try the same with scid, I open the reference
database as tree, open my small database, load one of its games and go to
the interesting position. When I now switch to the reference database, the
game in my window also switches to the first game in the reference database,
which contains the actual position. So
there is no chance to e.g. merge an interesting game or variation into my
analysis game. I have to remember the lines, switch back into my small
database and update my game per hand.
I think it is not logical to switch the content of the board when switching
the database. Switching the game should be a voluntary action of the user.
It should be possible to merge games of different databases. If the game
window maintains a stack of loaded games (for the unchanged ones this
requires just references) and the user can switch back to previous loaded
games by a back button, this requirement would be implemented in an optimal
way. A workaround could be to implement at least a kind of copy and paste,
so that I can copy a variation or game, switch the database and then paste
the content into a game of the other database.
What I also would like, if scid comes up in the same state it was closed
before. It should load the same databases, open the same (detached) windows
with the same location on the screen. Ideally it would even recover
"unsaved" games. This would allow me to continue working at the point I have
stopped before and it would be a nice feature compared to chessbase.
Gerd Lorscheid
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