Bug 228614

Summary:	Slider for "Difficulty" has no effect; difficulty remains always pretty low.
Product:	[Applications] ksudoku	Reporter:	pulbrich
Component:	general	Assignee:	Johannes.Bergmeier
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bucky, coates, d-ulrick, iandw.au, k61824, kde-games-bugs, pasqui
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	1.0 (KDE SC 4.8)
Sentry Crash Report:

Description pulbrich 2010-02-26 13:43:45 UTC

Version:           0.5 (using KDE 4.4.0)
Compiler:          gcc OS Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

I used Sudoku Standard (9x9) on various difficulty levels and played it for the last months on the highest difficulty level.   A few days ago (maybe 3 or 4) it started to fill in about 50% of the numbers most of the time. The position of the slider for "difficulty" had no influence on the created game.

When I read the bug report 172928 I tried to find out if my game is also on "random difficulty" (I never actively change the settings until now).

I just now tried to put the settings to "default" and it seems that the problem resolved.

The question remains how it got into a random setting and how to control this.

Comment 1 pulbrich 2010-02-27 01:37:20 UTC

I started the game again at a later time and now there is again the difficulty not influenced by the slider and the possibility in "settings" to 'SET DEFAULTS" is grayed out.

So, I have no way to set the difficulty.

One more comment: I used the popup-offer from the OS (fedora12) for updates regularly and allowed all updates. The last happened about at the time the problems with ksudoku started.

Comment 2 Dave Ulrick 2010-02-27 19:24:27 UTC

I frequently play ksudoku and didn't notice this problem until the first time I launched the game after 'yum update' upgraded my FC11 system to KDE 4.4.0.

Comment 3 Franco Pasquarelli 2010-03-18 10:32:56 UTC

I have the same problem in Fedora 12 after the update to KDE 4.4

Comment 4 k61824 2010-04-08 19:09:55 UTC

I have the same problem for KDE 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 on Windows (MSVC-32bit, windows XP x64 edition)

Comment 5 Parker Coates 2010-05-12 16:57:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 217925 ***

Comment 6 Ian Wadham 2011-11-07 10:28:06 UTC

I have replaced the puzzle generator and solver in KSudoku with a completely new generator and solver based on published algorithms. It will be released in KDE SC 4.8, due out in late January 2012. The new algorithms provide a full range of difficulties, from Very Easy to Diabolical and beyond, which have been tested against ratings of puzzles published in newspapers and on the Internet. Enjoy!

See http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Feature_Plan#kdegames for further details of changes to KSudoku in KDE SC 4.8.