[Kde-games-devel] KMahjongg (almost) using SVG theme

[A. Sopicki]

>  See a preliminar screenshot at
> 
> http://www.tabuleiro.com/mauricio/kmahjongg_svg.png
The SVG version is much better than the old one.

> However, there is a decision to be made. Would we still support the 
> older tilesets, unmodified? Supporting the backgrounds is easy, we could 
> still accept any png, jpg or svg file, with the option to tile or scale 
> accordingly. The screenshot above shows a SVG background, btw. Custom 
> layouts will also still be supported without modification.
> 
> But there are some issues supporting the older tileset files as they 
> are, specially because they assume a fixed tile size. They also do not 
> support resizing easily, since the code uses a fixed color for 
> transparency, and as a consequence the existing tileset graphics do not 
> use antialias. We can of course compose first and then scale. Tiles will 
> look crappy, however. The code that generates shadows is very good, but 
> it is not very flexible, so it is difficult to adapt it to use tiles 
> with round corners for example, or for tiles of different proportions.
> 
If a compatibility mode is not an option because of complexity I would
vote for SVG only. KDE4 will bring some major changes so I think it's ok
to break backwards compatibility for KMahjongg. If someone needs his
very special tileset he can still use the old version of KMahjongg.

Greetz,

Alex