[Kde-games-devel] KPatience, select deck dialog idea and mockup.

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Parker Coates wrote:
> What if we simplified our card deck classes and UI to handle only
> single SVG files with a single embedded "back" element and then create
> a new little utility program for create new custom themes? It could
> support loading front sides and backsides from existing installed
> decks, or from external SVG files and could install the new themes,
> save them to some other location, or upload them to a GHNS server.
> 
> Your fancy backside patterns could also be included, but when actually
> saved to disk, the themes would be entirely static and self contained.
> The main advantage would be that it would simplify much of our deck
> handling code and UI. All the complex configurability that a small
> subset of users desire would be offloaded to an external app.
> 
> Anyway, that's a lot of work that I don't have time to do, and it
> certainly couldn't be done for 4.3, but I thought it was an
> interesting idea. Comments welcome.

I find this a very interesting idea, and could also be used as a way for 
people to create their own "mashup" themes, maybe upload to GHNS, etc. I 
think that everything that simplifies in-game code is a winner.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini