You can get some washed-out colours, but not the previous gameplay behaviour, by using dconf-editor to set org.gnome.mines.theme to "classic". The Gnome devs even show the old version on their project page. The new version is just terrible.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-mines in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1650864 Title: In new version fields are not colored as they have to be Status in gnome-mines package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is important gameplay feature, and seems that this was changed by somebody newer played mines, wasn't it so? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mines/+bug/1650864/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp