GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 678270
Flag warning not working
Last modified: 2013-11-19 02:53:16 UTC
The preference for "Warn if too many flags (have been) placed" does not provide any warnings if too many flags have been placed on the board. It only works if "Use "I'm not sure" flags" (blue) is enabled, in which case the extra flags are the blue type (but if one then removes some of the red flags, the extra blue ones do not revert to red automatically). A suitable behaviour when not using the blue flags would be to either disallow placement of red flags after all of the available ones have been used up or have some sort of other marker for excess red flags that is the same for both states of the blue flag preference option.
Created attachment 218840 [details] Screenshot showing "too many flags" option working It appears to be working for me (see attached screenshot). I have "warn if too many flags placed" enabled and "use i'm not sure flags" disabled.
Sorry, problem is bad UI string! There are no warnings if too many flags are placed on the board, but it does warn if there are too many flags placed next to an open tile. I will have a think about how that can be made more clear and will improve user help to cover this.
It's not really clear to me how to keep this string both descriptive and short. "Warn about invalid flag placements" is the best I've come up with. "Warn if too many flags are placed next to an uncovered tile" is a bit too long.
Created attachment 260192 [details] [review] Change description of overmine warning preference
Attachment 260192 [details] pushed as 6ed230a - Change description of overmine warning preference