[Kde-games-devel] Konquest development

[Alexander Schuch]

On 9 November 2013 11:48, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Divendres, 8 de novembre de 2013, a les 20:46:08, Alexander Schuch va
> escriure:
>> Konquest right now shows each message regarding a player's planet as a
>> message box. This is very annoying as it even includes supply fleet
>> arrivals. With standing orders and a few planets. there are many
>> messages per turn to be "acknowledged" - see
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298274 as well.
>>
>> All these messages are logged in the status window area as well.
>>
>> So what do you think? Should the message box simple be removed as this
>> information is available in the message log already, or should I
>> implement (I believe) KNotification, so that the user can configure
>> whether or not to show those messages as well and, more important,
>> how: as message box or as notification. Or should Konquest itself show
>> some kind of turn summary - suggestions?
>
> Not a huge Konquest player myself, but i think a turn summary makes sense.
> About KNotification i don't think it makes sense to do all the work needed for
> that.

I added a proposal at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/113929/.

I wonder about the difference between the messages dock and a turn
summary message box. Both contain the same information, so what could
be the use case for a separate message box?

Regards,
Alexander