[Kde-games-devel] When will background be configurable? (was: Kpat and card style chooser)

[Richard Hartmann]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:05, Matthew Woehlke
<mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Parker Coates wrote:
>> I personally think the independent selection of card fronts and backs
>> is a simple case of over customisability. When buying a real deck of
>> cards, you're pretty much stuck choosing the front and back at the
>> same time.

> I still don't like making fronts and backs inseparable. What about
> standardizing on some common sizes, and restricting the choice of backs
> to those matching the "shape" of the deck? You can still do "unusual"
> decks; they just won't have many choices of back. But "standard"-sized
> decks can have many choices. (And a back can provide more than one
> "shape", of course.)

I agree that restricting the user to defaults is a bad thing. Offering some
defaults is fine, but even on old Windows versions, you could pick and
mix your own cards.


Richard