[Kde-games-devel] Chess game for KDE4

[Miha Čančula]

I noticed on the Porting to KDE4 page that there's currently no eqiuvalent to 
Knights. So I decided to write a new chess board for KDE SC 4 with libkdegames 
integration (using KGameCanvas and KGameTheme) and support for both KGGZ and 
the xboard protocol.

I am aware of Tagua, which was an attempt at a similar, but more complex 
application. However that included a custom animation framework (not needed 
since animations are now in Qt 4.6), a LUA scripting module and no integration 
with kdegames libraries for theming. 

The app is currently quite simple and it shouldn't take very long to make it 
usable, but I have some related questions:

1. Is there actual interest for such an app? I believe KDE Games should have a 
decent chess program, but that may not be the general opinion (original games 
are preferred?).

2. If yes, should I ask for svn access and put it into playground?

3. This one is ggz specific: The KGGZ::Module::isGGZ() always return false, in 
my app as well as other kde games. Do I have to have something installed or 
start the program in a special way to enable support for GGZ?

4. Can anyone suggest a better name than KChess? Or should I simply name it 
Knights, even though it's not the same?

Thank you,
Miha