kde-games package removal proposal

Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold at kainhofer.com
Mon Sep 19 16:41:58 BST 2005


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Sorry for the late mail, but I'm not subscribed to core-devel. I only read 
this thread due to the e.V. thread pointing to it.

Rainer Endres wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 16:02, Leo Savernik wrote:
>> Am Samstag, 20. August 2005 22:31 schrieb Danny Allen:
>> > Can we have a decision on my proposal then?
>> > My proposal: remove KSmileTris from kdegames for 3.5, due to its
>> > unmaintained nature, poor graphics and usability, and duplicated
>> > functionality in the better KSirtet (which has much more scope for
>> > improvement with KDE 4).
> 
> I am all for removing KSmileTris, because it is broken and even the
> maintainer has no idea about the rules.

How is it broken? I used to play ksmiletris regularly (it's quite addicting!). 
I couldn't see any breakage, worked just like it should for me.


>> KSmileTris is a KSirtet-clone??? This is a totally different game, and
>> actually much more pleasing to the eye than ksirtet. 

It's not only pleasing to the eye, it's also a lot of fun (much more than the 
plain boring tetris). It adds some nice turns like that the blocks have to 
fall to crack etc.

>> While ksirtet is a 
>> plain tetris-clone, ksmiletris is a totally different game.
> 
> Can you please change the documentation and explain the rules of blocks
> disappearing. Do not be too fast with that, because I could not figure
> that out together with the original author. They are removed in a
> unpredictable way in several situations.

Can you please name these situations?


>> > I don't recall having any replies against my proposal, with a few
>> > indifferent, and at least one (Stephan Kulow) in agreement.
>>
>> Maybe my reply wasn't explicit enough, but my answer is *no*. There is
>> absolutely no need to remove unique games from kdegames.
> 
> If they are broken and nobody knows how they work? Why should we port code
> nobody knows what it actually does?

Okay, I know I will regret this, but if noone else is willing, I'll try to 
maintain ksmiletris.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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