Rework the "Automatch finder" (formerly "Quick match finder")

[Regenwasser]

@siimphh

I was ironically referring to the other thread where you agreed the rest of us were all like junior product managers

No hard feelings.

@siimphh

But a separate somewhat detailed proposal is probably the right thing for you to do if you are serious about promoting a whole set of changes together.

It would be much easier if your ideas could be disentangled into a series of smallish changes that would each improve upon the positive outcomes you enumerated above. Then we could imagine starting with the most obvious ones without necessarily committing to the more contentious ones (eg reducing support for CG).

I appreciate and understand your general point. A huge feature proposal like this should be accompanied by a backlog of User Stories (or Issues as some might say).

PS: I would actually have to make several stories out of this one idea cause there are so many potentials that the story would’ve become way too big.

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User Story: Simplify the AF menu (Part I)

Background

Currently the automatch finder clusters computer mode into the AF even though they do not fit together thematically.
Furthermore, it includes a wide variety of settings for the match. This causes the AF to not be plug and play but instead cofusing for users, especially new users, as well as fragmentational.
Those settings are currently split up into three different sections:

• A large button for the time setting
• Smaller buttons on the top for the board size
• A gear icon on the top leading to another dialog window with dropdowns

Finally, the largest most prominent icons give a very lacking indication of what the actual time setting is.

Motivation

• Move computer mode to the section below to increase the focus on the actual AF options
• Create single button options that do require nothing more then the click of the button to achieve a plug and play user experience as well as a what you see is what you get experience
• Reduce options that are practically irrelevant to the game of go to keep the available options overseeable, understandable and to avoid fragmentation
• Fix the naming of the buttons to be comprehensible so that users actually understand the game mode before clicking on it

Wireframe

Changes

• Settings are merged into one overview section without any additional dialogues or gear icons
• Buttons for the quick pairing allow for an exact understanding of the game mode
• The ruleset setting is removed. OGS should find agree on one mode for now. This feature proposal is indifferent to the choice.
• The handicap setting is removed. OGS should find agree on one mode for now. This feature proposal is indifferent to the choice.
• The time control setting is removed. Byo-Yomi should be used as is standard in the world of Go
• Rengo gets its own tile instead of being hidden in the OGS menu cockpit
• “Computer” mode is moved next to “Friend” mode where it thematically fits. “Friend” mode is the private setting that was previously hidden in the OGS menu cockpit
• “Automatch finder” is renamed to “Quick pairing” as this sounds better to the author of this story