Bug#657788: opencity: should let the user choose the filename for the opencity.save file

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: opencity
Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello maintainers of the opencity Debian package!

I would like to suggest how one of the current limitations of this
nice game could be eliminated.

The save button lets the user save the city.
As the documentation [1] on the official web site states:

| Currently, OpenCity handles only one save slot. It will overwrite
| any previously saved city.

[1] http://www.opencity.info/en/TutorialMainMenu.html

Instead of implementing a multiple-slot save mechanism, I think
that the game should let the user choose the filename for the
save file (currently ~/.opencity/opencity.save).

When the user clicks on the save button, the city should be saved
to the currently loaded one, if any. Otherwise, a dialog should
ask the user which filename he/she would like to use and then
save to ~/.opencity/<CHOSENFILENAME>.opencitysave
(please note the appended filename extension).
There should also be a "save as" button, just like in typical editing
programs...

This way, there would not be a limited number of save slots, but
an unlimited number, provided enough space is available in the
user's home directory...

Please forward this bug report upstream.
Thanks for your time!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages opencity depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-24
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11.2-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.11.2-1
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.46-4
ii  libsdl-image1.2           1.2.11-2
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2           1.2.11-7
ii  libsdl-net1.2             1.2.7-5
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.14-7
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-11
ii  libtinyxml2.6.2           2.6.2-1
ii  opencity-data             0.0.6.4stable-1

opencity recommends no packages.

opencity suggests no packages.

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