[Kde-games-devel] Fade to black

[Dennis P]

Fade to black

It would be nice to have a clean gaming interface without needing to actively 
turn it on. So here is my wishlist concept for Fade to black, comments 
welcome before I add it to bugzilla.

When playing a game and the mouse pointer stays within the game (board) window 
it indicates that the user is only focusing on the game and after a while 
everything outside the game starts to fade to black. Moving your mouse 
outside the game window cancels the fading, you are obviously also keeping an 
eye on something else, the game will not try to fade out the rest of the 
screen during this gaming session again.

But you allow the fade to happen and everything outside the game board is now 
black, even the icon tool bar and the menu bar are gone, but those game 
related elements both return whenever you mouse over one of them. The game 
now looks pristine. The rest of your desktop does not return to visible when 
you mouse over it.

To see your desktop again you must click the black border surrounding the game 
board, in action clicking games even doubleclick well away from the game 
board, perhaps even the screen border. Or simply quit the game.

Fade to black is not only helpful for games but also for multimedia 
applications where you may want to give undivided attention to your media.