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

[Parker Coates]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 05:49, Ian Wadham wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix it the next chance I get.

Parker