The K Desktop Environment

4.3. The Settings Menu

Settings->Show Menubar

Show or hide the Menubar. The menubar can be retrieved by clicking the right mousebutton in the game window, and choosing Settings.

Settings->Show Toolbar

Show or hide the Icon toolbar

Settings->Show Statusbar

Show or hide the statusbar

Settings->Save options

Save all options with their current settings

Settings->Configure Key Bindings

Opens a standard KDE dialog box allowing you to change KAbalone's keybindings

Settings->Configure Toolbars

Opens a standard KDE dialog box allowing you to change KAbalone's toolbar.

Settings->Level

The computer can play at four different levels. This influences the number of moves he searches in advance to calculate the best move. You can interrupt the search by pressing the S key.

Settings->Computer Plays

You can make the computer play Red, Yellow or both sides. Choose between these options before starting a new game. Of course it works in a game too if you want to change sides. Choose None to play against another human. This is very useful in Network Mode.

Settings->Moving Slow

A move drawn by the computer normally (when this option is checked) is shown by blinking and highlighting of the pieces used in this move. Uncheck this option if you don't want to wait for this animation: Then only a quick highlighting is done.

Settings->Render Balls

If checked, the pieces are rendered online by an internal simple ray tracer when needed (e.g. when resizing the window).

Settings->Spy

If option Spy is checked: If it is your turn, you can see the computer's rating of the move you want to play in the status bar. If it's the computer's turn you can see (in status bar and hightlighted pieces) the move he actually thinks is the best to play. Of course this changes along his search.