[Kde-games-devel] which libkdegames Highscore class for kgoldrunner

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> 2007/8/7, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at cirulla.net>:
>> Maybe we need a model-view score system. :)
> Oh, yes :)
> In my opinion we need a new highscore system. The old one is overdesigned IMHO.
> The only usable part of it is KScoreDialog which still needs to be
> fixed due to some bugs it has. And after looking at its code I just
> loose motivation to fix 'em :)
> 
> If everyone thinks like me (or close to what I'm thinking) perhaps we
> should sit and discuss what we want our highscore system to be (i vote
> for clean and simple - in general i mean ;)), and perhaps start doing
> something rather than telling that it is overdesigned (latter is
> mostly note to myself ;))

While I basically agree with you, I think that for 4.0 we should try to 
convert all (or most) of the games to use KScoreDialog API. Matt has 
added a nice tutorial at

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Games/Highscores

Matt has designed what I believe to be a clean and minimal API for it, 
and we can always improve the backend classes (which are indeed old) and 
the visual presentation, which is something Johann already mentioned. 
But ultimately I think we will all benefit from having this conversion 
in first place: currently we have lots of games already using 
KScoreDialog, and the more the better imo. At least it improves the 
chances of one (or several) of us getting motivated to work a bit more 
on it, while maintaining the external API.
Then we can sit and decide to do another highscore implementation for 
4.1. But it is still nice to convert everything to KScoreDialog now: it 
will make migration to a different/enhanced API easier, as the changes 
would be the same in all games, compared to the more complicated process 
we have now. And we would have more time to think about this 
simplification. What do you think?
I volunteer to migrate some of the games that are not yet using 
KScoreDialog during this week, just let me know.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini