[Kde-games-devel] Kpat themes. Another take

[Eugene Trounev]

Well. alright then. let it stay the way it is. I'm firmly against imposing on 
users yet another *great* feature they will never use (mostly cos they will 
never know about it).

On Tuesday 24 of February 2009 12:28:23 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Eugene Trounev wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 of February 2009 09:47:33 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> I think you omitted the part I dislike most; you're removing the ability
> >> to have a /background/ independent of the cards. (I notice Luciano makes
> >> the same objection ;-).)
> >
> > Well, it doesn't work now anyways, so no losses there.
>
> Not entirely. If you tie the background to the deck now, it may be
> harder to change later (especially as right now it isn't tied; you'd be
> doing work just to undo it again, wouldn't you?).
>
> >> Also, I still think it would be nice if the deck (which can include its
> >> own back) specifies the "style" of back and would let you pick other
> >> backs of the same style (i.e. size and shape). Else if you just want a
> >> different back, you have to copy an entire deck.
> >
> > And right now if you want to have different tiles with the same pictures
> > in mahjongg you have to copy them over too.
>
> You mean change the tile but not the glyphs? Well... if you change the
> tile, there is a good chance you want to change the glyphs also, if only
> color, so it's not the same. Card fronts and backs have a pretty neat
> separation.
>
> > I don't see anyone doing that.
>
> Imperial Jade appears to be a copy of Default... with the glyph colors
> all changed to white.
>
> > Specifying shape's a bit of an overkill if you ask me. Besides how would
> > you describe a *style*?
>
> You mistake my meaning. A "style" is size plus shape, e.g. "4:3 rounded
> 5%" or "4:5 sharp".


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