[Kde-games-devel] kajongg in kdereview since 2 weeks

[Jeremy Wickersheimer]

Well imho there is a usability issue, i think starting the game is too
complicated for no special reason right now. The player name is not
important at all, you could use the KDE or unix name.

The default screen could simply be a combo box to select the rules,
and a start button. Think that 99% percent of your players probably
will just want to start a single player game, whatever the rules. Only
advanced players will consider rules tweaking or multiplayer.

Also since mahjong is a new game (on KDE) i am also quite sure that
the vast majority won't know how to play the game. So better not make
playing a complicated game complicated in itself :)

WICKERSHEIMER
Jérémy
WICKERSHEIMER
Jérémy





On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Wolfgang Rohdewald
<wolfgang at rohdewald.de> wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010, Jeremy Wickersheimer wrote:
>> One thing you might want to add is a welcome screen to quickly
>> start a single player or multiplayer game. I often play
>> single player but i find the process complicated
>
> My artistical abilities are limited - so if you would
> design a welcome screen I can add some buttons and combo boxes.
> You would still need to select the wanted player name
> and the wanted ruleset, but defaults could be proposed. So
> one mouseclick could start a single player game.
>
> Right now you need 3 mouseclicks or 5 keypresses to start a
> single player game. By setting the default to "start" in the
> table list I could reduce that to 4 keypresses.
>
> I could imagine a new menu command "Play single" but to really
> make this short the player name and the wanted ruleset would
> not be selectable, so we would need defaults in the config
> dialog - something I wanted to avoid.
>
> Anyway do you believe this is something that needs to be done
> before leaving kdereview? If not, I would prefer to discuss
> this later.
>
> --
> Wolfgang
>