[Kde-games-devel] Dock widget in KReversi

[Inge Wallin]

I have been away some time from KReversi development and in the mean time a 
lot of good things have happened, like the port to QGraphicsWidget.

Unfortunately also some not so good things have happened, and there is 
especially one that I wonder about. 

In svn revision 1240603 Stefan Majewsky wrote the following log message:

> KReversi: replace layout in centralWidget by dock widget

This is about the widget that contains the move list of the current game. I 
wonder about the reason for this change.  I cannot see a single improvement 
for the user and there seems to be a pretty serious bug associated with it:

A dock widget can normally be removed from the main window and so is also the 
case for KReversi.  However, I didn't see a way for me to put it back into the 
main window. And since the state of the UI is saved, it starts as a separate 
window also when I restart the application. If the dock window is moved very 
slowly towards the right edge of the application, a thin line can be seen 
which could be the place to put it back.  But this leads me to problem #2, 
which is even worse.

When I approached the thin line with the dock window, KReversi crashed. And 
ever since then it crashes immediately after every time I try to restart it. I 
even tried to remove kreversirc in ~/.kde/share/config, but that doesn't seem 
to affect anything since the crash still happens. I haven't tried to restart 
my whole KDE to see if it's some kind of cache, but I will retry once I have 
to restart at some point.

But even so, we cannot expect the user to remove kreversirc or even know about 
that file. I would be interested to know what the idea behind the change was 
and how it can be fixed.

	-Inge