Mahjongg 3.8 scoring broken in 13.04

[David Samuels]

I have just upgraded 3 machines from Quantal to Raring and find that the way mahjongg saves scores are saved and reported have changed and become useless. Instead of saving/displaying scores in ranking order (i.e. name and fastest time at the head of the list), now only the date and time are displayed and those are in play order (i.e. latest date and time taken at the bottom and thus often out of view) . I note that the now useless scores are held in a new file in a different directory to previous versions (now home/.local/share/gnome-mahjongg instead of /var/games). This makes it impossible for different users sharing a machine to compete.

Bad idea. Please put it back the way it was.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in gnome-mahjongg.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael Catanzaro (mike-catanzaro)]

The first part of this bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701844 which is fixed in 3.10.

The thread beginning at https://mail.gnome.org/archives/games-list/2013-October/msg00000.html discusses why the scores are no longer saved in /var/games (with the unfortunate result that you can no longer share scores with other users on a multiuser machine).