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Bug 703183 - No message when the player in Gnome-Chess is in a check situation
No message when the player in Gnome-Chess is in a check situation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-chess
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-chess-maint
gnome-chess-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-27 11:40 UTC by Ewan.LEBIDEAU-CANEVET
Modified: 2014-01-07 21:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8

Attachments
Display a message if a human player is in check (1.88 KB, patch)
2014-01-07 21:13 UTC, Michael Catanzaro 		committed Details | Review

Description Ewan.LEBIDEAU-CANEVET 2013-06-27 11:40:25 UTC 
1. Start Chess Game
2. Play against the computer or a human until you are in check
3. No message is displayed

Expected result:
pop up message to announce that you are in check

Actual result:

no pop up message to announce that you are in check unless it is a check mate.
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2013-06-27 12:08:24 UTC 
I don't want to do a popup for this or use the infobar (the big thing at the top which displays the results of games), since those are both pretty disruptive.  We could probably display a warning icon somewhere, which would make the situation immediately obvious without being disruptive.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2013-07-09 14:03:02 UTC 
Or color a path between the checking piece and the King.  (Except for Knights.)
Comment 3 Adam Dingle 2013-08-23 23:58:51 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Or color a path between the checking piece and the King.  (Except for Knights.)

Even for knights, you could color both the knight's square and the king's square.  I think this would be adequate.

I do think this should be implemented in some form.
Comment 4 Kévin THIERRY 2013-10-16 14:26:16 UTC 
Bug still present in gnome-chess 3.10.0 r1 (tested on Fedora 20).
Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2014-01-07 21:13:38 UTC 
The following fix has been pushed:
a62746f Display a message if a human player is in check
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2014-01-07 21:13:40 UTC 
Created attachment 265581 [details] [review]
Display a message if a human player is in check