[Kde-games-devel] Card deck selection?

[Eugene Trounev]

I support the decision to remove the mentioned decks.

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:40:33 am Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> Luciano just raised the issue about removing some of the more outdated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
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