[Kde-games-devel] Game status view

[Stefan Majewsky]

Many of our games (KGoldRunner, KNetwalk, KBlocks, KDiamond, ...) have a 
statusbar showing information about the game status (remaining time, earned 
points, level) and the difficulty selector. At first, the status bar is an 
obvious place for such information which does not constrain the size of the 
actual game view very much. That is also the problem: the status bar is 
difficult to discover if you do not know it, and it is hard to read on big 
windows.

Other games (esp. those running in fullscreen mode) have information panels at 
one of the screen edges where such information is organised. The situation is 
the exact opposite here: An information panel takes much place away for the 
sake of visibility and readability.

I would like to know how we actually came to the extensive usage of statusbars 
for game informations, and whether there are better solutions to accomplish 
this task (esp. with regard to small window sizes).

Good night.
Stefan
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