GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757492
There is no false flag alert after explosion
Last modified: 2015-11-03 17:05:26 UTC
Created attachment 314671 [details] Screenshot If you set a mine flag on a clear cell, after the explosion of a mine, you should be able to see which flag was false. For example, See the cell on the right bottom of the exploded mine in the Screenshot attached, which says there is 3 mines near it. As you see one flag is inappropriate (the right neighbour of exploded mine), but there is no sign which tell the user that was wrong.
Strange, I thought we at least used to show this.
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #1) > Strange, I thought we at least used to show this. I am sure we had it, and we did not deliberately remove it. I will look around and see if I can find anything related, but there have been no changes regarding the game logic recently (at least since the theming engine introduction), so it's not a recent change, but nevertheless, I might be the one to blame for it.
Ok, took a look, the background color was set to red for incorrectly flagged fields, but the default and the classic themes had overridden the css style, thus this only worked in the colored background theme. Now I have updated the code and images with a separate image for incorrect flag (per theme), so a theme can now set both the image and the background for incorrectly flagged fields. * coloured background theme only sets the background to red * the default theme only sets the image to a red version of the flag * the classic theme sets the background. These look reasonable enough for me. My only question is whether this can go into the stable release (this is a minor UI change - as part of a bugfix), but will try to get an answer for that. I would like to include this in 3.18.2, as I see no risk in it, but if it's not recommended, it will have to wait for 3.19.2. This problem has been fixed in the unstable development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain that newer version.
Yes, it can go into the stable release. The UI freeze is there to discourage you from making big UI changes, not to stop you from fixing bugs! Mines has had an unusually high amount of bug reports since 3.18.0 was released, and it would be good to get those all fixed in 3.18.2.