[kde-doc-english] Grandfather - text: Bug? No bug?

[Andreas Rennert]

Hello people,

this is the first time I contact and therefore become a member of an 
open organisation. I hope I don't sound too naive.

It is all about the KPATIENCE - KDE - Grandfather game. The help-text 
says in paragraph 6:

/'All cards already in the foundations stay there, but the cards in the 
playing piles are reordered to give you a new chance to find a solution./'

But you also have to tell the player in what way exactly the remaining 
cards are reordered, because they are definitely not shuffled (and 
shuffling is also not intended, or else the solver predictions could 
only be exact after the last row has been dealt).

So you put the player in a position where he has less chances than the 
'machine', and that is very unfair!

If all this seems like drivel to you, then just find somebody who knows 
and likes this game, and he or she will know exactly what I'm talking about.

Conclusion: The help-text is not sufficient to give the player a chance 
to be as clever as the solver, which actually IS possible. I'd love to 
correct the text by adding a sentence or two, but I can't do that 
because FIRST somebody of you LINUX-programmers has to look into the 
program and check how exactly the reordering happens, namely:

a) systematically, turning the open cards onto the pile, putting one 
pile upon the other from left to right, or
b) following some other order principle.

I certainly do not think I would be able to file a bug report on this 
matter, it sounds very complicated to me. So I hope that this 
communication will find a reader who knows how to start the presumably 
enormous process of verifying my assumptions, deciding what to do about 
it and so on.

Thank you all for your fantastic work!

Andreas Rennert
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