[Kde-games-devel] KNewStuff Repositories

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Ian Wadham wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I think it is time to bring this discussion back to the list.
> BTW, I missed the IRC meeting, so I am pretty much in the dark
> about this thread.  I do not even know what this feature
> is called (KNewStuff, KNewStuff2, KHotNewStuff - I have seen all
> bandied about), nor do I know what/where the server is, nor even
> that we had one now, nor what is on it and in what form.

Hi, Ian. KNewStuff is something we wanted to have in 4.0, but it was cut 
at the last minute since we could not test the servers at that time. Now 
Jeremy is helping Josef with the implementation, and it has reached a 
point where we can use it at least for download of new themes. At this 
time, we will still be the only ones uploading content to our servers. 
But the ability to update and provide new themes between releases is a 
great asset, and KNS also gives us a way to cut the size of the games, 
which is important for some distros and installation on small devices, 
while still having these available for users.
The idea that floated around in the meeting was to ship each game with a 
small number of themes (2 to 4 seems enough), and provide additional 
ones in the KNS server.
I think my suggestion to Jeremy was probably not the best, as I forgot 
that KGr is not using KGameThemeSelector. If you were using it (like 
KBlocks, KMines and most of the games), then adding KNS support is a 
matter of one additional parameter in the KGameThemeSelector 
constructor, and one .knsrc file. See for example KBlocks, which already 
has this enabled: you can select Configure KBlocks and use the theme 
dialog to install a new theme.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini