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Answer to a post originally placed in an old thread. Replying here to concentrate all the Miniature related discussion.

Originally Posted by bingbings View Post
Well finally installed on my N900 and played a few games as guest....

First impressions - it's pretty neat, love the interface (who the hell was involved in the weird chess program for maemo5 ??), easy to use, no problem in finding players, overall great experience for maemo chess players, big thx!!.This miniature program will not leave my N900 from now, well done Sir!!

I was experiencing some rotations problem - unable to play if I turned my N900 in portrait orientation, will try next time whitout having forced rotation enabled.

Not necessarily on the downside but (for me) : the 3 click needed to move might be too waisting time when playing blitz chess and I was wondering if the notification when the oponent move (actually the slim blue bar) couldn't be modified showing exactly the last opponent move (a classic square modified color could be an option).

edit : yeah forgotted - the version I installed is the 0.4 and I did it by adding the catalogue showed in the link in the meego forum (thx inean), need to install qt-components too.
The guys that developed the original Miniature for Maemo are the same that have worked on Miniature 0.4 - just 2 years older.

Can you explain in more detail this rotation problem? In theory Miniature shouldn't rotate at all and we always in portrait mode. However, N950 users run into problems when sliding out the hardware keyboard. Maybe is this what you are referring to as well?

About your usability suggestions, check and please have a say at

Can you please improve the installation instructions at http://miniature-chess.org/wiki/Maemo#Installation ? I didn't manage to install it in my first attempt (while doing 101 other things, so surely I didn't try hard enough - still this might be the case of many potential users). Thanks!
 

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