Re: glines compared to KDE colour lines

[Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:39 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> I got stuck into playing Five or More (aka glines) for a few hours
> yesterday and when I was finished I had a good think about it.
> 
> One of the things I eventually realised was that "Next Balls:" didn't make
> sense anymore if like me you were using the Shapes theme.  [PATCH]
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159900
I will be applying this tonight.

> I played around with the KDE Colour Lines game and I have to say I had
> much more fun, the reason being that it is (by default) a much easier
> game which meant I could play it quickly rather than thinking deeply about
> each move.  I might file a bugzilla request for an easier version later.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83532

I am doing something similar with the same-gnome rewrite (which is
currently hung-up on fancy graphics issues) and I will use that to make
sure I get the semantics right.

> Still looking at the KDE game I notice they provide the option to hide the
> "Next Balls" Preview, which made me think it be an idea for glines to turn
> it into a toolbar that could be turned on and off (the downside to this
> might be that the preview would no longer be independantly resizable, and
> you probably dont want to hide the scores).  The status bar is used
> infrequently by Glines (used only for Game Over and when hovering over
> menu items) so there could be room to put the Scores in the status bar.
The UI could definitely do with a little bit of reorganisation. However,
I do not subscribe to the idea that every detail should be able to be
turned on and off. Admittedly, gnometris allows the preview to be
toggled, but historically that is expected for tetris-like games.

 - Callum