[Kde-games-devel] KPat Progress and Regressions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On November 12, 2009, Parker Coates wrote:
> Since the release of KDE4.3, I've been putting a lot of work into an
> internal cleanup of KPat.

you're very right about the smoothness of animations with lots of cards; it 
feels really good there now.

one thing about the animations that have always irked me a bit, but maybe it's 
just me, is that the speed of the initial auto-solve move (e.g. when a card it 
moved up to solutions pile in freecell automatically by the game) feels 
reallly slow, while after a few cards it zings past uncomfortably fast.

again, maybe it's just me, but tightening the envelope on the those animations 
a bit by making the first one faster and the last ones not quite so fast might 
be a nice improvement.

i also wonder why "change game type" is under settings; it would seem to fit 
better under "Game"?

there's a painting oddity in the "select game type" screen:

	http://bddf.ca/~aseigo/kpat_pick_error.png

it gets triggered when i have kpat on one virtual desktop, switch to another, 
and then switch back. it might be a Qt bug, but it might also be kpat not 
painting the background as an optimization though it actually need to? haven't 
looked at the code, so apologies if it's not a kpat bug. :)

in the "would be nice to have", it would be really nice if the mouse over 
highlight in the "select game" screen fade in/out rather than just switch 
between hovered and not (same for mousing over other game elements, such as 
the card pile "foundation" element).

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