Bug 55502

Summary: option to use nokia style (snake2) keys (2 instead of 4)
Product: [Unmaintained] ksnake Reporter: Simon Oosthoek <kdebugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Andrew Chant <achant>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandrake RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Simon Oosthoek 2003-03-04 11:59:54 UTC 
Version:           0.3.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

I'm used to playing snake2 on my nokia phone. The controls are with just 2 buttons instead of 4. This takes some getting used to, but once used to it, it's hard to use the current 4 key setup of ksnake. The 2 key control is intuitive in that the snake can only change by going left or right. A 180 turn takes just 2 key-presses. 

The fact that you can die because you press a button twice (right, right -> dead) is very strange. In snake2 this is not possible, but I think in ksnake dying should not happen in this case.

Anyway, this is not essential for me, I can also not use ksnake and be happy ;-)
Comment 1 Dmitry Suzdalev 2006-09-06 18:51:55 UTC 
Implemented in svn revision 581540.

Thanks Henry Malthus <henry.malthus@gmail.com> for the patch!