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Bug 780946 - gnome-mines does not remember name of player
gnome-mines does not remember name of player
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libgnome-games-support
Classification: Other
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libgames-scores maintainer(s)
libgames-scores maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-04-05 18:29 UTC by Viktor
Modified: 2018-05-22 12:28 UTC
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Description Viktor 2017-04-05 18:29:32 UTC 
It looks weird that gnome-mines does not remember your name entered after winning a game. Each time after winning you have to type it again.
Comment 1 Robert Roth 2017-08-27 19:26:37 UTC 
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue.

The name saving is handled in the games library we use to display/load/save the highscores, and the fix should be done there to work for the other apps using the library. Changing the component accordingly.
Comment 2 Robert Roth 2018-03-28 06:50:41 UTC 
This happens because the libgnome-games-support library gets the real name of the current user on the computer, that is the default value.
Not sure what to do here:
* we could get the most frequen name from the current category as the default
* we could store the last entered username somewhere, but the question is where? gsettings?

Any other possible solutions?

BTW: this happens because mines doesn't specify a username, so the library tries to guess it. mines could probably store the last entered username in its gsettings, but than the fix would be necessary for all games using libgames-support, which is something I obviously don't want.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 12:28:38 UTC 
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