Board layout

[WandererXII]

Layout overflows the screen on vertical screens:

Users can solve it by making the board smaller, but that's obv not optimal.

We want to rewrite once and for all uniboard.scss. We probably need to drop the old side layout, cause trying to maintain one is enough...

Related issues from lichess:
lichess-org#9522
lichess-org#12837

[WandererXII]

If we got rid of the side layout, we could have shogiground take care of hands and have it inside .sg-wrap possibly making it easier to properly scale and position, instead of this mess:

[WandererXII]

Currently the side layout is used by 4464 users, which makes me a bit hesitant to remove it... I could set everyone to the compact layout in the next update and see how many people switch back and then decide.

[Olekaze]

I prefer the side layout for chu shogi. the clock is too small on the other ones

[WandererXII]

The clocks are the same size, it's just that chu shogi has that (kinda ugly) gap there where hand pieces would go with other variants...

[WandererXII]

I might revert to the shorter move list like lichess has. Lichess has two moves per line, we have only one, because of how moves are counted, so that's why I made the move list longer, but maybe I should revert that. On my laptop the difference is small, but on bigger monitors the clocks are too much spread out and away from the board like you say.
I would like to preserve the same column layout across all variants, that's why I'm reluctant to get rid of the gaps, but I will try it, maybe it won't bother me that much.

[milkymia93]

dont know how github works, but i use the side view for streaming layout and it works wonders with obs because it has the board background in it as well. i much prefer the side layout to any other layout, and especially for streaming shogi.

[WandererXII]

Unfortunately side layout was already removed here and soon the change will be live.
But the now default layout might have an advantage for streaming, because smaller area of the window needs to be captured, since the hands and the board are together, but obv this depends on your setup too:

There is also a setting, that adds background to the pieces in hand:

I could write some dirty css stylesheet for stylus, but that's not a long term solution...

[milkymia93]

i see you updated it, thats unfortunate, i like that you can have background to the pieces in hand but its awkward because it's vertical rather than horizontal. oh well :)