[Kde-games-devel] Setting difficulty level via command-line option

[Frederik Schwarzer]

Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012, 18:13:56 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dimarts, 21 de febrer de 2012, a les 14:12:49, Stefan Majewsky va 
escriure:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stefan Majewsky
> > 
> > <stefan.majewsky at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I'll try digging through svn blame to find the reason if no-one
> > > remembers.
> > 
> > tnagy added "-novice" etc. to KNetWalk in revision 408815, when
> > KNetWalk was still in playground. [1] There's no explanation why
> > this should be useful, but I suspect that this was before
> > KGameDifficulty was used properly by KNetWalk.
> > 
> > I remember copying this code into KDiamond because I closely
> > followed the implementation of KNetWalk for the GUI bits of
> > KDiamond when I first wrote it. The same probably hold for
> > Klickety (don't know though if that copied from KNetWalk or
> > KDiamond).
> > 
> > After these investigations, my opinion is still that this
> > functionality can be dropped altogether. For KDiamond, I have
> > decided with my maintainer hat on. For Klickety and KNetWalk, I
> > will likely do the same during the KgDifficulty port unless a
> > valid use-case is found.
> 
> I'll give you a valid use case, start from the command line the
> game i want with the difficulty i want.

I think he figured that one. :D

The question is rather, if that use-case is important enough to keep 
the code.

I am not sure how many users do that. I doubt that it will more athan 
a handfull.

But if we keep it, then it looks like it belongs to the libs.

Regards