Re: [glob2-devel] more feedback (many topics)

[Kai Antweiler]

Bug:  when the only offered jobs come from an Inn with full food and no
      guests, sometimes a glob harvests wheat.  There is no white box.
      Only a black box.
      

> It would be nice if the lines drawn by the "draw unit paths" feature
> (which draws lines that indicate where globules are going and is
> invoked by default by "t") appeared even when neither source nor
> destination are on the screen.  This is needed to allow tracking a
> long line across several screens to try to understand where a globule
> is going (and why it is going there!).

It would be nice if buildings get identification tag.
When you click on a glob you could see the tag of the building
it is working for.  Or an option that the tags are printed on the
screen.  And more convenient: colors.  Select a building and all
globs that work for it and the building get some color.  Also the
lines from "draw unit paths" get that color.


> the bug tracker on Savannah:
> 
> Duplicates do not seem to be linked (at least not automatically).  It
> should only be possible to mark a bug report as a duplicate if one
> specifies _which_ other bug report it is a duplicate of.  And in that
> case, there should be a link between the two bug reports.  This
> doesn't seem to happen (at least not automatically).  This means that
> the effort put into a bug report marked as a duplicate is effectively
> lost, because one can not find it from the main bug report.  Is there
> some way to fix this?

You can manually add a comment: "marked this as duplicate of ..."
You can suggest this wish to savannah.
We can change the tracker.
I think glob2 could profit from switching to lauchpad.net, but
I don't know if their tracker handles duplicates better.


> Whether a bg report is open or closed is orthogonal to its status.
> This is confusing.  Is there some way to tie bug status to whether a
> bug is open or closed?

I like it that way.  You can close a bug that is old and has never
been confirmed or fixed without loosing its state.  Also you can
mark something as fixed and leave it open for a week or so and
ask others (like the creater of the bug) to check if this really
is really working for him.


> Dragging with the middle mouse button in the main map area to move the
> viewport is not documented.  This is a nice feature, but I only found
> out about it by reading bug reports!



> The log files in ~/.glob2/logs continue to grow even when glob2 is
> paused.  I left glob2 running overnight paused and it filled my hard
> disk.  Ugh.

Do you know which logfiles?
There are many of them. 
We should include a "no logfiles" commandline option for you.
Can't be that difficult to implement.

-- 
Kai Antweiler