[Kde-games-devel] Game status view

[Luciano Montanaro]

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On Saturday 07 June 2008, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> 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).
>

I cannot speak for others, but I think the status bar has been used because
it was already part of the programming environment.

I've done some work to put useful information on screen in kgoldrunner -- I 
think it is more in line with the spirit of the game. I think the important 
information is all on the screen now, so it could be removed at least in 
KGoldrunner, if that is preferred. 

Luciano

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