Ian, the docbook deadline is 14th on Novenber (tomorrow :D ), but ther's no need to panic as me and Dinounix have already finishe all the docbooks. I'm actually commiting them as I write this email. As soon as you see the docbook updated, please go ahead and check it out (note the most of the content is from the onld one anyhow (I did read it of course)).
<br> <br>As for the Kgoldrunner - For the default theme the only rela solution I see is to have a plain gray background with nothing there whatsoever. As for the bricks - I made them so screamingly bright on purpose (people complain all the time they are not too distinctive). Just give me some time to finishe with the docbooks and then I'll come back into graphism :P
<br> <br>The loading themes are fine for me. But I'm not surprized Egypt takes so long to load - it's a VERY heavy theme. I put a lot of details into it. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
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As the final release of KDE 4 approaches I am becoming increasingly<br>concerned about three issues in KGoldrunner:<br><br> a) Playability and look of the Default theme.<br> b) Playability of the Geek City theme.<br>
a) The ever-increasing time it takes to load a theme.<br><br>I'm getting desperate, especially with Eugene being out of action.<br>I think I need to use the Default theme for screenshots in the doco very<br>soon, but I do not know how soon that should be. What deadline?
<br>The doco still has the KDE 3 graphics !!! Not a good look.<br><br>At present I find the default bricks too garish and too highly patterned<br>when viewed en masse. Oxygen just does not seem to have good<br>subdued earthy colors, such as real bricks have.
<br><br>The new "jungle" background is great, but there are huge contrasts<br>between elements of the background. I am actually finding some easy<br>levels quite hard to play ... The enemies almost vanish in front of the
<br>dark leaves and the gold and poles are hard to see against the sky.<br><br>The background of Geek City still does not give good contrast to the<br>foreground elements for gameplay. This is a long-standing problem.<br>
<br>Re timing: last time I did major work on KGoldrunner I was able to get<br>all theme-loading times down to 2 seconds or less on my setup, which<br>has no graphics acceleration. That was about 3 months ago, just before
<br>Eugene released the Egypt theme. Egypt came in at about 3-4 secs.<br>Now I am getting the following timings for a theme change:<br><br> 0.7 sec B & W theme and Nostalgia themes<br> 2.7 sec Default theme<br>
5.1 sec Geek City<br> 8.3 sec Treasures of Egypt<br><br>If you add SVG loading time, when the game starts up, these times are<br>expanded by about 50% and Egypt, for example, takes 12+ seconds.<br>Other KDE Games seem to have slower loading times too.
<br><br>Nobody has commented, so I have been assuming it is just a problem<br>on my setup, but how can I be sure? In the last 3 months there have<br>been lots of changes in Qt (including QSvgRenderer), in KDE core and<br>
in the SVG files themselves.<br><br>Any ideas or reassurances anyone? ... Ian W.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kde-games-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kde-games-devel@kde.org">kde-games-devel@kde.org
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