Re: Scores

["Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Mario Wenzel <maweki gmail com> wrote:
> /Var/games isn't writable for me on fedora so the dialogues always say "you
> didn't reach the highscores". I don't think the consequences of such a
> setting would be easily explainable to the common user. I am all for moving
> this stuff over to the home directory.
>
> Am 05.10.2013 06:41 schrieb "Michael Catanzaro" <mike catanzaro gmail com>:
> > On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 22:25 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > > How about a compromise?  In the game configuration menu give the user
> > > the option, maybe a check box, where the user can choose to use either
> > > the shared, or the local, location for the score card.  That way the
> > > score card can be used by multiple players, or by just one, as they
> > > wish.  Open source is supposed to be all about choice, no?
> >
> > That's probably excessive choice, though; where to save your scores is
> > pretty banal and isn't something the user should have to think about.
> >
> > Check out [1] for GNOME's stance on preferences in general.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/HIG/GeneralGuidelines

You need the setgid enabled to write the shared scores. Distributions
have requested that we drop that approach. Today most computers are
single user anyway so the shared scores does not add value for most
cases. That was why we began storing the highscores in home instead. I
think that we should store them en home only. Other means of sharing
them have been talked about. E.g. a telepathy tube could be used to
view the highscores of your IM friends.