[Kde-games-devel] KPat Progress and Regressions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On November 13, 2009, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> [Aaron J. Seigo | Friday 13 November 2009]
> 
> > On November 13, 2009, you wrote:
> > > > This would be nice to have. Patches are very welcome. :)
> > >
> > > i'm quited tempted; maybe for kde 4.5 (and we can probably steal code
> > > from libplasma for this as well since we do this kind of transition a
> > > lot in plasma)
> >
> > meh; i got annoyed with something else i was working on and spent the 5
> > minutes it took to implement this. draft patch attached.
> 
> I am always amazed by the speed you all implement such changes in a code
>  base you are not familiar with.

i find it's one of the benefits of working on Qt/KDE code: the API is the same 
everywhere (huzzah for transferable skills!) and there are a finite number of 
common idioms used by the KDE development community ... so even when the code 
base is unfamiliar, it's possible to be very productive.

(that and practicing reading code in general is a great way to get faster at 
these things; as a younger man i used to spend evenings reading the code of 
various f/oss projects such as apache, postgres or openssh looking for ideas 
and practicing my reading fluency :)

> I applied the patch and is looks vey nice. :)

cool; i've tweaked the values a bit so that it's a little slower (.3s instead 
of .25s) but has more frames, so it feels a bit smoother.

> The patch also (accidentally?) includes different speed values which at

whoops! that was indeed accidental. and yes, those values are, as you noticed, 
geared a bit towards people who play it more than once (and so are used to the 
idea that things will be automoved on you).

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