[Kde-games-devel] On KDE card decks...

[Eugene Trounev]

> Ok, but... for the record, I think Oxygen is the best theme we currently
> have :-). 
As much as I support you there, I fear we are but a minority :( When, back in 
2007, me and Johann have developed Oxygen deck our aim was first and foremost 
usability... So at that time we have thought it was a marvelous idea to 
separate the suites by color to ease the game-play. Unfortunately very few 
have seen it our way :( Most of the people... And I would think I may safely 
put my word at stake here by accusing all those nay-sayers of only having seen 
Kpat once, whilst playing it never. However I repeat - most of the people have 
found the deck disturbingly bad. It was therefore decided to replace it.
Besides, we think it is a jolly good idea to rotate the themes each release, 
to create an illusion of life inside the main project :P
> (After getting used to it, I tried Oxygen White once, and was
> immediately annoyed how hard it was to tell what suit a card is :-).)
>
> Oh, and... some time I will have to submit my hack of Oxygen to make all
> suits different colors.
Now this is  a splendid idea. Simply marvelous! I will welcome the new deck 
with all my heart :) It shall be known as Oxygen Colors :P
> It's nice for Simple Simon especially; you can
> tell without trying to read the card what other cards are the same suit
> (great for long stacks where the suit symbol isn't visible and you
> aren't sure if a run is all diamonds or has hearts mixed in... or
> /where/ it has hearts mixed in...). Probably similarly good for Spider
> (if you're playing on hard, anyway).
>
> --
> Matthew
> Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.

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