[Kde-games-devel] Re: REKO cardsets for KDE cardgames?

[blachner at gmx.de]

Some comments on your thoughts: 
 
> 1. There is one more thing to consider: The REKO cardformat 
> is a bit awkward, as it is mainly based on the old Amiga with 
> its HAM (Hold and modify - new color depends on last) (4096 color) coding.

>  
Yes many cardsets are in HAM format, but there is also a PC REKO format,
called RKP8 
and RKP16. (8 and 16Bit) 
 
> 2. I am not fully sure whether it is necessary to support old file 
> formats. 
> Of course it depends how widely it is used in the world outside KDE? 
> Does everybody use it? If yes a support might be nice. 
>  
It is realy a old format? As I said there is also a PC format and there are
also windows 
games. For example look at http://home.arcor.de/amigasolitaire/ Not
everybody use it, 
but there are many cardsets available. 
 
> 3. However, we should not outright recejct the idea of making the 
> kcarddialog 
> more flexible. Directly returning images might be a nice option. 
> Especially, 
> if it would be possible to have either the filename or the image (probably

> not possible with REKO). 
>  
O.K. What do the authors of the card games thought on this point? 
 
> 4. It is also not totally stupid to optionally pack all images in a zip,  
> reko, tar or whatever 
> file format. 
>  
Hmm. But there are many REKO cardsets available. Look at
http://go.to/rekonet I think it 
is not a good idea too pack them in one zip file. 
 
> 5. Also, an extended kcarddialog could tackle a long term problem which we

>  
> might 
> run into with the current KDE cards, i.e. they are fixed size. In future 
> it  
> might 
> be useful to have a scalable or at least small,medium big carddecks or so.

>  
Yes. Maybe OPIE can use parts of this for card games on PDAs. 
 
> 6. As I already pointed out in another posting: 
> a) This discussion took already part last year, resulting 
> in rejecting REKO [some argued especially against the large amount of  
> questionable pictures 
> in REKO cardsets, although this probably could increase popularity] and 
I didn't found the discussion in the mailing list archive. 
 
> b) a QT converter which installs REKO cardsets into KDE as lots of PNG  
> files does exist already. 
>  
Where is this converter available? 

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