[Kde-games-devel] KGoldrunner themes

[Luciano Montanaro]

Il Tuesday 13 November 2007 03:04:13 Ian Wadham ha scritto:
> As the final release of KDE 4 approaches I am becoming increasingly
> concerned about three issues in KGoldrunner:
>
>     a) Playability and look of the Default theme.
>     b) Playability of the Geek City theme.
>     a) The ever-increasing time it takes to load a theme.
>
> I'm getting desperate, especially with Eugene being out of action.
> I think I need to use the Default theme for screenshots in the doco very
> soon, but I do not know how soon that should be.  What deadline?
> The doco still has the KDE 3 graphics !!!  Not a good look.
>
> At present I find the default bricks too garish and too highly patterned
> when viewed en masse.  Oxygen just does not seem to have good
> subdued earthy colors, such as real bricks have.
>
> The new "jungle" background is great, but there are huge contrasts
> between elements of the background.  I am actually finding some easy
> levels quite hard to play ...  The enemies almost vanish in front of the
> dark leaves and the gold and poles are hard to see against the sky.
>
> The background of Geek City still does not give good contrast to the
> foreground elements for gameplay.  This is a long-standing problem.
>
> Re timing: last time I did major work on KGoldrunner I was able to get
> all theme-loading times down to 2 seconds or less on my setup, which
> has no graphics acceleration.  That was about 3 months ago, just before
> Eugene released the Egypt theme.  Egypt came in at about 3-4 secs.
> Now I am getting the following timings for a theme change:
>
>     0.7 sec B & W theme and Nostalgia themes
>     2.7 sec Default theme
>     5.1 sec Geek City
>     8.3 sec Treasures of Egypt
>
> If you add SVG loading time, when the game starts up, these times are
> expanded by about 50% and Egypt, for example, takes 12+ seconds.
> Other KDE Games seem to have slower loading times too.
>
> Nobody has commented, so I have been assuming it is just a problem
> on my setup, but how can I be sure?  In the last 3 months there have
> been lots of changes in Qt (including QSvgRenderer), in KDE core and
> in the SVG files themselves.
>
> Any ideas or reassurances anyone? ... Ian W.
>
>
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