GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 484690
"New game" and "Open game" interfaces should be simplified and merged
Last modified: 2008-04-06 21:36:01 UTC
The old resume game interface has been disabled. We should get this back. However, the old behavior had several problems: 1. Auto-resuming the old game is confusing since user's expect that when they open game they'll get a new game. 2. The "open game" interface included more information about the old games than anyone could ever reasonably want to know. The current "new game" dialog includes more information than anyone could reasonably want to know about new games and is confusing and distinctly non-GNOME-ish (i.e. non-simple). I propose a new interface, drawn up by Garrett L. at Boston GNOME Summit 2007, which has new and old games neatly drawn together on one "welcome" screen which makes it take one simple click to start a game of any kind -- resumed or new.
Created attachment 96905 [details] Screenshot of new proposed interface
The proposed interface / screenshot looks sweet! You might want to add scrolling to the list of saved games, though.
There is scrolling if there are more games than fit in the window. The whole window currently scrolls rather than just the saved games (the logic being that if you are scrolling through old saved games, you don't want to open a new one)
A note to say this interface is implemented in the patch for bug 484691