[Kde-games-devel] KSokoban

[Matt Williams]

On Sunday 06 May 2007 18:17:07 Scott MacDonald wrote:
> Cool - I'll have to lurk for the next week, since most of the time is going
> to spent studying for finals.
>
> One question - will I need KDE4, or at least KDE4 libs if I am to work on
> KSokoban? Or can I just continue with KDE 3.5 and its development
> libraries? I'm not sure how this would work.

Yes, you will need the KDE4 version of both kdelibs and kdegames. You can find 
a tutorial for setting this up at 
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 or, if you're on Kubuntu 
or openSUSE, you can simply download the prepackaged kdelibs.

>
> Matt Williams wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 May 2007 17:37:50 Scott MacDonald wrote:
> >> Hey guys,
> >>
> >> I was just reading about the new games for KDE4, and I was dissapointed
> >> to see that KSokoban didn't make the cut for KDE4 due to a lack of a
> >> maintainer. It is my favorite game. What is required to become a
> >> maintainer? Uni gets out in a week, and if no one else is interested in
> >> updating KSokoban I'd be willing to take it on.
> >
> > That's great news :)
> >
> >> I've used Qt4, and I enjoy it a lot. (Especially canvas! wow) What would
> >> I need to do? Just update it to Qt4? Add more functionality? Rewrite it?
> >> I'm not too good with drawing graphics, but everything else I can do.
> >
> > You don't need to be able to do graphics, we've got a fantastic group of
> > people who have been doing a great job with that. All you would need to
> > do is write the support for it.
> >
> > I believe that KSokoban is already updated to KDE4 in as much as it
> > compiles. You would need to make sure that it's fully ported, resizable
> > and looking sexy. Of course adding new functionality would be good but
> > getting a working version is more important.
> >
> > It's currently residing in /trunk/playground/games so feel free to have a
> > play around, ask questions on this list and come visit us in #kdegames on
> > freenode.net
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