[Kde-games-devel] Kalzium Similations/Games and your new code

[Matt Williams]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 18:23, Maurizio Monge wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Jaison Lee <lee.jaison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, it seems to be. Let us refer to it as the KBoard-Canvas for now:
> > > it is really a light canvas class, without transformations or the
> > > model/view architecture. It is still not decided if/how it will be
> > > integrated in the kdegames module as well, although I believe it
> > > should, as a good solution when the game does not need the full
> > > QGraphicsView solution, but could benefit from dirty rect management
> > > and optimal update calculation.
> >
> > Is this KBoard thing good enough that we should consider putting it
> > right into kdelibs? If QGV really has as bad performance as people are
> > saying[1] there are probably lots of apps that may decide to use
> > something more light-weight.
> >
> > Also, there has been previous discussion about making a kdegameslibs
> > module similar to what kdepimlibs is, which seemed like a good idea to
> > me and would definitely help if we keep KBoard in libkdegames.
> >
> > Maurizio Monge, are you still out there? :) What's your opinions on any
> > of this?
>
> Yup, i am :)
> My opinion is that i'm a bit surprised (with pleasure) that people like so
> much my canvas, it was just a thing "between a QPainter and the QGV" that i
> wrote for KBoard (the KBoard generic game application, kboard.sf.net).
> However, looks like that it solves problems for many people, so maybe
> libkdegames could be a good place to put it, to make it easily available.
> So, if you like, i will maintain it in libkdegames (as i'm going to
> maintain it for
> kboard anyway, kboard will still have a copy to make it possible to compile
> it qt-only, but if kde is available it will use the kde version).
> About the class names of course changes can (and will) be made as you best
> like, for instance of course "Canvas" is a too generic name to use it in a
> kde library :)
> The reason i used namespaces is because i don't  like
> KdeGamesCanvasVeryLongItemNames, but of course in libkdegames it shall
> respect the existing naming conventions.
> Best regards.

Why not call it Kanvas :)

Also, I'm sure there will be requests in time to move it to kde-libs as 
otherwise, say kde-edu will need to have kde-games as a requirement if they 
want to use kboard (or Kanvas).

-- 
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com