[Kde-games-devel] Re: Re: Highscores

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday January 18, 2003 07:40, Josef Spillner wrote:
> On Saturday 18 January 2003 15:50, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Connecting somewhere and sending information about who's playing what
> > games is a privacy violation.
>
> Funny enough people take such violations for granted when browing web
> pages.

People actively ask to visit a page.  Konqueror doesn't do so without user=
=20
permission.  However, if Konqueror did the Mozilla/Netscape trick of=20
auto-connecting on startup, then I'd complain about that, too. :-)

> The following could be considered:
>
> KMessageBox::questionYesNo(this, i18n(
> "
> Congrats! You've finished this level and scored 343 points. The
> following information can now be transmitted to the world-wide highscore
> server: Player: neil
> Game: whatever
> Score: 343
> Server: scores.whereever.org
> "
> ), i18n("World-wide highscores"));
>
> (proper layouting etc. to be added)

Agreed.

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Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
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