High scores never asks for nor records any names.

[Treefingers]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

1) Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex)

2) 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2

3) Normally I'd expect a game with a scoreboard to ask for my name and enter a new score if it's high enough. No scores are on the board currently, so I'd expect any score at all to trigger this.

4) Nothing at all. Only single player games have been tested (solo and w/ AI), but when a game ends I'm not asked to enter my name. It's possible that I have to finish the game instead of just running out of lives, but this isn't mentioned in the manual and high scores in nearly every other game are recorded even for incomplete games.

The recreation steps are simple for me. Start a game, then finish it.

I can still access the high scores window from the menu, it just doesn't have anything in it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-games 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, in which game?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Treefingers (christopherjfryer)]

Sorry about that. I reported from within the game, so I thought it woulf show up here. It was Nibbles/Snake (I'm in windows atm and forget the name). I've since been able to record a high score, but it seems to only work if my score is past a certain threshold. This isn't an unusual thing among games, so I'm reluctant to consider it a bug, now. However, what that threshold is exactly is not clear at all on the game screen or in the documentation (or I wouldn't have made the original bug report).

Thanks for the hard work!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

right, doesnt sounds like a bug to me either but you can forward it to the upstream authors at bugzilla.gnome.org to see what they think about it.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this ? did you sent it upstream? may you tell us the bug number? thanks.

[Tijmen (tijm6140)]

With many of the Ubuntu games, the high score will occasionally be written to the default name without allowing the player to enter their name. This happens roughly a third of the time for me.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

known issue. bug 287421