Re: [Pingus-Devel] Interface rework

[Tomas Blaha]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> I am currently planing on reworking/cleaning up the interface a bit, I
> have something like this in mind:
> 
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/4b734776e15058b89643e33aaf77bcc5-menuredesign.png
> 
> One problem with this interface is that it will block a part of the
> level. In some levels that can be handled by adding a bit of water at
> the bottom, in others that might not be possible. For normal gameplay
> that isn't an issue, since levels are already designed to not have
> gameplay near the level border, but when a player wants to dig down so
> far he of course shouldn't be stopped. My current solution for this
> would be a way to hide the interface (via little arrows in the
> corner).
> 
> Any comments or other suggestions?

Maybe it could also be easy to allow user grab the panel and move it to 
the top border, just like I can grab panel in KDE. (I mean only two 
distinct positions, not free move.)

Oh and please leave enough space for "released/out/saved", in some 
translations it is quite hard to fit.
 
> Some alternative interfaces experiments:
> 
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/d29a63b264637801693faf23bdb22028-menuredesign.png
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/027def00be8c40faa796627b4421dc35-menuredesign.png
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/8868e80a330317ab3c6841f8b88a342e-menuredesign.png
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/48b47dc107dd3bb9bd520f4d96a85262-menuredesign.png

As you probably already figured out, there is not necesary to have more 
than three action buttons:

- armageddon button
- pause and play buttons can alternate in the same place depending 
  on whether the game is paused or not
- fast forward and one step button can alternate too, fast forward when 
  playing and one step when game is paused


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