[Kde-games-devel] Konquest development

[Alexander Schuch]

On 19 November 2013 20:57, Pierre <pinaraf at pinaraf.info> wrote:
> On Monday, November 18, 2013 10:26:32 PM Alexander Schuch wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I doubt we will find the answer, it was already that way the first time I played
> Konquest, around KDE 2.0…
>
> Do you have any screenshot of your changes ?

Simply download the diff from review board, apply it to master and compile. :)

In my opinion, we can get rid of the pop-ups completely. The
information they provide is available in the messages dock as well.
However, it seems that there is public demand to at least have one
message box per turn showing a summary of the turn happenings. And I
now wonder what messages exactly this turn summary should contain as
all the information are logged to the messages dock already -
separately and in detail.

So for a summary, information could be (all in one message box):

- 3x planets conquered
- 1 planet lost
- 24x Reinforcements (85 ships) have arrived for planet J.
- 3x Reinforcements (12 ships) have arrived for planet A.
- …

Regards,
Alexander