[Kde-games-devel] Review Request: KPat: Add command line option to skip directly to a particular game

[Ian Wadham]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 2:24:22 pm Parker Coates wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 16:05, Ian Wadham wrote:
> > I love the start screen too, in fact I like it so much I would like to
> > see it come up whenever I do Settings->Game Type .... !!!!  It seems
> > inconsistent that it does not.
>
> As of trunk, this is new behaviour.
>
> > An alternative to the command-line approach might be to bring up a
> > fresh deal of the last game-type played, by default, and allow the start
> > screen to be suppressed with a "Don't show me this again" button.  And
> > maybe it could be re-enabled in the Settings menu, in case a friend calls
> > by and wants to see the full range of games when starting KPat.
>
> We've actually gone one further. There is now a new menu entry
> "Settings > Remember State on Exit". If checked, KPat will save the
> current game on shutdown and automatically reopen it the next time
> KPat is launched. I've left this setting disabled by default, because
> I still think the game selection screen is neat and "change is
> scary"(tm).
>
Nice work, Parker!  But errrmmm ... I think you need to increase the
version number in the ui.rc file.  At first I could not bring up the new
Settings menu, because I already had a v. 19 ui.rc in my $HOME area.

Cheers, Ian W,