The goal of Rubik's Kube to 'clean' the cube. The cube consists of 54 colored sides which must be ordened to form 6 sides of equal colors.
You can turn to cube and twist the individual sides of the cube by clicking and dragging with the mouse (see section 3.2 for more information). By twising the sides of the cube it's possible to rearange the cube.
Turning means that the cube a a whole rotates in space. Twisting means that one of the sides of the cube is turned, but the rest of the cube remains fixed.
Using the cube you can create some beautiful patterns. I've included
some example cubes in the distribution, they can be found in the
directory
$KDEDIR/share/apps/krubik/
.
When does the cube turn and when does it twist? Whenever the cube is turned or twisted the program computes the "twist areas". These areas determine when the cube turns or when it twists. Just try some clicking and dragging to find out how to turn and twist the cube.
New cube : Starts with a new cube
Save cube : Saves the current cube to a file
Load cube : Load a saved cube
Quit : Quit the program
Configure colors : Allows you to configure the colors used
Reset colors : Resets the cube colors
Configure keys : Allows you to configure you're own keybindings
Statusbar : Enables or disabled the statusbar
About : Shows information about Rubik's Kube
Help : Display's online help
Rubik's Kube has keybindigs for the following functions :
New cube :
Starts with a new cube
Save cube :
Saves the current cube to a file
Load cube :
Loads a cube from a file
Quit :
Quit the program
Configure keys :
Edit the keybindings used by Rubik's Kube
Help :
Display help
About :
Show information about Rubik's Kube