[Kde-games-devel] KPat Progress and Regressions

[Parker Coates]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 18:41, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.

Frederik has also expressed an interest in playing with those timings.
It should be easy enough to do.

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

The "why" is because that menu entry replaced the old submenu that
listed the game types. I agree that it should be moved to the game
menu, but have never gotten around to it. I think I'd also like to put
it in the toolbar (as it's an oft used action), but the lack a good
icon has stopped me. Do you think the different modes for Klondike and
Spider should stay in the Settings menu or move to the Game menu as
well.

> 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. :)

Fixed. http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1048303

> 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).

This would be nice to have. Patches are very welcome. :)

Parker