KDE Games/Ideas

KDEGames Ideas and Proposals

New Features

• Multiple pointers and joypads connection feature (daemon?)
• KGoldrunner - add game of tag feature (one controller for the runner, and one for the enemy) (Invented by Emil)

Visuals changes

• Unified onscreen interface (including menubar/submenus; shortcuts; toolbar buttons (place/name); statusbar)
• Themable notifications (as part of "Unified onscreen interface")

universal background support (and maybe even theme)

• Do we need toolbars? Can all be moved to the screen instead? (See "Unified onscreen interface")
• Statusbar to display only unimportant information. All that relevant has to be on screen. (See "Unified onscreen interface")

User interaction

• Keyboard/Mouse/Game-pad (where possible)
• Highs-core viewer/manager (clear/share/view) ?*unified*?3
• stats for the game usage

Application level

All

• GGZ Network game support (where possible)
• Standardize menus (rest of the interface)
• Interchangeable themes for all games.
• Theme selection dialog has to be one and the same.
• ?Unified "theme selection dialog"?
• ?Game selector? Downloader?
• "New Stuff" getter + Theme selection dialog = better integration
• Rethink Theme structure + animations support
• Can we read settings from SVG file directly?
• Can we have frames described inside?
• How to define animation?

KGoldrunner

• Lots of changes suggested by Luciano Montanaro and Ian Wadham.
• For details see http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdegames/kgoldrunner/TODO?view=markup

Knetwalk

• Complaint - After the game is done and the highscore is shown, it takes quite an effort to start a new game (close window, go to menu, choose 'New'). Solve by adding a 'New game' button right onto highscore window?
• Some people say they sometimes need to see the end results of the game to take a screenshot... Maybe build in this functionality right into 'Highscore'?

Onscreen Interface

Elements:

• Container/Panel
• Button
• Label
• (Icon?/Pixmap?/Vectormap?/Part of label???)
• self alignment (left/right/top/bottom) < application defined
• XML driven?
• Themable?
• One code to rule them all

Text:

• Use QT4, or not?
• preset font?
• Ship font?
• Vectorized fonts
• Don't use texts, just images/icons?

Notifications

Elements

• Container/Bubble
• Vabel
• Icon
• self alignment (left/right/top/bottom) < application defined
• Themable?
• Once code to rule them all