GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 110730
UI suggestions - show descriptions in list of games
Last modified: 2021-06-02 11:30:24 UTC
The "New Game of..." menu is unruly and the ellipsis is inappropriate. Better here to just have the Select... item. For the dialog it shows: 1) Make the window title match the menu item. 2) Remove the question mark icon. This isn't an alert. Having that there dilutes the meaning of the icon elsewhere. 3) Remove "Select Game" label. The title should indicate the idea. 4) Provide a description of the selected game next to the list of games. 5) Provide a tooltip or a caption explaining what "Seed" is, or perhaps remove the choice. (Does anyone use it?)
Items 1 through 3 have been acted on and are in CVS. Item 4 will be donw when I have the time to accumulate the descriptions. Item 5 is being delayed until a global decision about seeds in all games is made. The seed option will probably be removed.
A bug about this has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/3177 I paste the comment here since the submitter has some suggestions: "Select a game with Aisleriot open a dialog box with plenty games name and a strange "parameter" number. Here is some way to improve the usability: * add a description and a screen-shoot of the game (the name is not enough) * preselect a dozen of game and hide others (and add a check box "show all games") * remove the "parameter" option (or explain it with a tooltip)"
The seed/parameter has been removed in 2.9.x. So that is fixed. The description is a good idea, but is a little tricky to implement since it may involve scanning all the game files. The preselection option is possible, but I'm not sure about it. I am also considering a "recent games" section for commonly played games.
changing the summary to summarise the last remaining issue old summary:UI suggestions - Game menu new sumamry:UI suggestions - show descriptions in list of games
I was going to file a seperate bug report but this is as good a place as any to make my suggestion. If the "Select Game" dialog used instant apply, it could give users a useful preview of what the game looked like.
Re-assigning to default owner.
I'm using gnome-games 2.30.1 (Fedora 13). I think I'm looking for something like the Seed option -- does it ensure that you get the same game layout each time? I'd want to use it for coming back to games that defeated me, but that I think are beatable. I actually went looking for that feature, and then came here to ask for it. As for the description (which still doesn't appear to be implemented), I'd like to make a suggestion. I think each game should also come with an XML file that includes data like: - The name of the game (allows punctuation, etc) - The Category/Subcategory of the game (is it like Klondike? FreeCell? Spider? - The number of decks (single/double deck) - The type of deck (ie. have some cards been removed? - The number of redeals The data above would then make it possible for games to be selected by category. Also, if it was in XML, the knowledge required by contributors would be much lower, so others could contribute the descriptions and categorisations, relieving the developers of *that* load at least. It would also be useful if there were a Scheme function that could be called, so that the developers of new games could access the XML data.
What needs to happen to make this move forward?
Mass-moving only open aisleriot bugs to the new product. Search for "aisleriot-mass-move" to filter them.
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