[Kde-games-devel] ksokoban

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 13 Maig 2007, Scott MacDonald va escriure:
> Hey guys,

Hey, why are you hijacking kjewled thread???

Please, next time start a new thread instead of replying to one message that 
has nothing to do with yours and changing the subject.

> I've been looking through the codebase, and well... its interesting. As far
> as I can tell, KSokoban was developed for KDE2, and somehow ported to KDE3.
> The real concern I'm having is how ungainly the code "feels", since I've
> noticed the following
>
>  - all rendering is done through some sort of HTML subsytem (divs and img
> are sprinkled liberally through the code base)
>  - many custom classes were made where Qt should suffice, such as the move
> queue.

Most of kdegames had this "problem", wrote long time ago and with some small 
porting in between.

>
> I'm sorely tempted to overhaul everything in the code base, except for the
> level loader (which seems to be decent). I know normally this looked at as
> a big no-no, but at this point porting to KDE4 would be pointless.
> Animations, SVG support would be best suited if we rewrote the rendering
> portion of the program from the ground up, using the canvas.
>
> Again, its summer break.... so I'm more than willing to take this on as a
> fun way of learning programming for KDE. The sokoban game itself is fairly
> trival to write, though the display may be more time consuming.
>
> Also, if this goes ahead, can I get commit access? I mean, I _could_ submit
> a patch, but if we go ahead the amount of code unchanged would be tiny.

As i said to Vic everyone is entitled to have commit access if understands the 
rules, same answer to him applies to you.

> Thoughts?

Welcome :-)

Albert

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> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Diumenge 13 Maig 2007, Vic Fryzel va escriure:
> >> Hi Albert,
> >>
> >> > Why not host it on KDE SVN repository?
> >>
> >> I didn't think I could host it in the KDE SVN repository because I'm not
> >> an official KDE developer.  Does one not have to be a KDE dev to use the
> >> KDE SVN repo?
> >
> > You are just two steps away of becoming an "official KDE developer"
> >
> > a) Wanting to be one for a "somewhat long" period
> > b) Reading http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account
> >
> > Albert
> >
> >> > Well, just start coding it with "ugly" graphics and keep in mind the
> >> > possibility of "themes" so an artist can come later and just changing
> >> > image files can change altogether the look of the game.
> >>
> >> Alright I'll do that.  Thanks for that point.
> >>
> >> > As far as i know sound people is missing.
> >>
> >> I've never done sound effects before.  Can you recommend any
> >> applications that might be useful for making these?
> >>
> >> > Seems a cool game we'd like to have in KDE, go go go!
> >> >
> >> :D
> >
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