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[Giorgio Medeot]

Hi H.G.,

my two cents:
Regarding the engine grouping, it seems a very nice idea. The use of a combobox in this context is a little bit unnatural though, but I can understand that you don't want to revolutionize the gui, since the gtk port is arriving, sooner or later. A logical choice would be a treeview widget: that way browsing the nested groups would be quite more effective. In that scenario, a nice addition could be a text box in which one could type e.g "cr" and have the list shows all and only the partial matches (say some version of crafty and critter...). BTW, with such a "search bar", the need for a mean of grouping engines would be a lot less severe.

Back to the topic, from the post I didn't understand how to go back to a parent group, once you have entered one and you realized that what you were looking for was elsewhere (sorry I can't just try it right now, I'm at work).

Cheers,

Giorgio