[Kde-games-devel] Theming support

[Branan Riley]

If KDE is on windows, they can use KDE's extraction tool (ARK?) .zip
is just so much less efficient than tar.gz...

Why not add a class to libkdegames that handles reading in the .theme
files? It could read the magic number from the file, and use the right
decompression program. That would also avoid a lot of duplicate code
to read the .themerc file, etc. I'm thinking .zip, .tar.gz, and
.tar.bz2. Maybe .rar, but it is a proprietary format, which could
cause problems (I believe that RAR decompression is allowed, but not
compression? I'll have to double-check that).

Branan

On 3/18/07, Johann Ollivier Lapeyre <johann.ollivierlapeyre at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think we should provide unified extendable theme format for all games. I
> > consider a compressed folder with extension *.theme or *.tar.gz containing
> > following elements:
> > - themerc ( including information about author, license, installation
> > directory and specyfing optional game data location )
> > - preview.png
> > - license
> > and optionally:
> > - *.desktop file
> > - SVG graphics
> > - sounds / music
>
>  this is exactly what i'm thinking. Only one point: use zip instead tar.gz.
> Don't forget kde4 will be usable on windows, and most  people can open zip
> and not tar.gz.
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