[Kde-games-devel] ksokoban

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 13 Maig 2007, Scott MacDonald va escriure:
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sorry, I didn't realize that would cause problems. Oops! :)

Forgiven ;-)

>
> >> 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.
>
> What happened? Were they updated, or did the pretty new KDE4 versions have
> the majority of their changes hacked into the existing code base?

What's the difference between update or hack into existing code?

Completely non representative to other games, but changing ktuberling to SVG i 
changed around 60% of the code.

Albert

>
> >> 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
> >
> >> ~ Scott MacDonald
> >> UIC ACCC Computer Consultant
> >> Assoc. for Computing Machinery Treasurer
> >>
> >> http://inca.cc.uic.edu/
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
> >> I can picture in my mind,
> >> a world without war, a world without hate.
> >> And I can picture us attacking that world,
> >> because they'd never expect it.
> >>
> >> 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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