[Kde-games-devel] Christmas theme for ktuberling...

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous 06 Desembre 2007, Famille Brisset va escriure:
> Right, I thought I'd get an answer directly on my e-mail and didn't
> think about the online list archives (I'm not subscribed to the list
> because it is too much traffic for my mailbox) so that I didn't see all
> the discussion going on :-( Thanks for forwarding the link to the thread !
> I'm aware of release issues, and will just follow the guidelines. All I
> can say is that I'm really sad if it can't go in for 4.0 since this
> theme really fits with winter/Christmas time ! If I understand the
> problem right, the blocking issue is string translations, which in this
> case amounts to exactly *one* string: "Christmas". So my suggestions (in
> decreasing order of preference) would be:
> 1) commit it after translating the string to the most common languages
> (list of locales taken e.g. from translations available for other
> themes). Considering the word I need to translate, it should be easy to
> find the appropriate translations !
> 2) add it to GetHotNewStuff, though I'm not sure ktuberling supports it
> (can't test right now, I've messed up my KDE4 install !)
> 3) put it on kde-look.org

Ok, the 3) option is going to be the only way as RC2 tarballs have already 
been created and next tagging will be already after christmas so it does not 
make sense breaking the freeze by then.

Of course we will add the playground to KDE 4.1 :-)

Albert

>
> Waiting for your feedback,
>
> Nicolas
>
> > A Dilluns 03 Desembre 2007, vàreu escriure:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was playing with KDE4 svn recently to check the progress made, and was
> >> quite impressed by the new ktuberling. So I looked under the hood a bit
> >> and realized it was very easy to create new themes. Being in December
> >> now, I've sat down with my 10-year old son and prepared a nice Christmas
> >> theme :-) I've read that KDE4 is no longer going to be released in
> >> December :-(, but early January will still be Christmas spirit enough I
> >> guess...
> >>
> >> The theme is being tested locally by my 4 children, and seems to work
> >> fine (even though some effects are not supported by ktuberling or QtSvg,
> >> which slightly degrades the appearance as compared with inkscape). I
> >> think it could be a worthwhile addition to the set of existing themes,
> >> but before committing it I'd like to know whether that's OK. I have a
> >> KDE svn account ("brisset", used mainly for kst up to now), so there are
> >> no technical problems. Licenses should be OK as well, as we borrowed
> >> mostly from openclipart.org public domain material, vectorized some
> >> drawings which were then heavily "touched up" in inkscape and drew the
> >> rest ourselves.
> >>
> >> Thanks for letting me know whether I can commit this. Attached is the
> >> svg for you to have a look.
> >> And thanks again for all the work that has gone into kdegames for KDE4.
> >> It is truly impressive !
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >
> > Hi, i'm not sure if you are on kde-games-devel list or not, but we
> > basically decided it should wait until 4.1, really a pain but that's the
> > "right way".
> >
> > Maybe you could put it on kde-look.org temporally though.
> >
> > List thread: http://lists.kde.org/?t=119672537000004&r=1&w=2
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   Albert