[Kde-games-devel] Card deck selection?

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Luciano just raised the issue about removing some of the more outdated 
card decks from the standard selection for 4.0, and putting them on 
kde-look.org for now, and in our games KNewStuff server in the future. 
Back in one of our meetings (November?) I think we agreed that we had 
too many cardsets, specially the old ones, and that we would cut the 
selection to maybe 10-12: the SVG ones and 4-5 of the more traditional 
pixmap versions, including the german ones necessary for lskat.
However, no one acted on this.

We currently have 19 decks:

8 SVG ones (including one named SVG-Broken :))
11 PNG ones

Talking with Luciano with IRC to narrow down the selection according to 
what we discussed in the meetings, we propose to remove:

 From SVG sets:
SVG-Broken (for obvious reasons, including that it is translated to most 
languages already with this name)

 From PNG sets:
Bonded (too blurry, and very similar to standard)
Blue Balloon ( also very similar to standard)
Dondorf (we have a better Dondorf in SVG)
Spaced (could live in kde-looks, we have another one with Penguins)
Hard a Port (blurry, not very nice looking)
Aisleriot (basic but looks blurry in lskat for example, oxygen-white is 
similarly simple and much better)

So for PNG we would keep the two XSkat png ones (German and French), two 
themed ones that are popular with kids/teens (Konqi and Penguim), and 
the standard set used in KDE3.

As for backgrounds, we all know several of the png ones are not too 
pretty, or very limited in appeal. We propose a cleaner default set, as 
we are in the start of a long cycle, and will soon have KNewStuff 
servers where these can live. The intention is to keep all the (few) SVG 
ones we have for now, but cut most of the PNG ones. We could keep:

Classic Blue
Classic Red
Modern Red
Grandma
Konqi (to match the frontside)
Penguim (to match the frontside)
Tristan (matches German/French XSkat frontsides)

The end result is that we would ship 12 decks, 7 SVG and 5 PNG ones, 
which we think is a very good selection, and represents the best we 
have, without being too drastic in our cutting exercise.

If there are no strong objections, we will do this in 24 hours, as there 
is the need for .desktop files to be regenerated.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini