[Kde-games-devel] KPat Progress and Regressions

[Matthew Woehlke]

Parker Coates wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 14:22, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> * when selecting a game from the "choose a game" screen there's a delay of a
>> couple of seconds before the game starts. i'd suggest either switching
>> immediately away from the "choose a game" screen so the user knows that their
>> choice has been registered or making the transition to the selected game a lot
>> faster.
> 
> This delay is due to the time required to render the cards from SVG.
> As you mention in a later mail, this isn't so bad if the card pixmaps
> are already in the cache at the required size. I remember in a
> previous version, this delay occurred after the empty game area was
> shown. This was awkward too, but probably could be considered better
> feedback. I'll play around with this, to see if it can be easily
> improved.

Showing empty playing area would I guess be better than still showing 
menu as if nothing happened. What about borrowing the 'please wait' 
thing from palapeli?

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