[Kde-games-devel] replacing classic tileset?

[Parker Coates]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:29, Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini at kde.org> wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I took another look at classic last night, and... to be honest, I really
>> don't want to use it now :-). With no offense to Robert, it really isn't
>> the same level of quality as the other tilesets, and I think Bamboo can
>> take over as the "Usable" tileset.
>
> Looks very cool. But why "replace" classic? I understand it has
> problems, but why not add the Bamboo one, and let people that want to
> use Classic for one reason or another continue to do so?

I agree. Certain people love certain things and will complain if they
get taken away. Removing features or functionality is sometimes a
necessary evil needed for the overall good of the application, but
when it comes to themes, I think it's probably just easier to leave
them there. If it was good enough for release originally, it probably
isn't that bad.

> One thing I considered is to rename the current default (for tiles, and
> maybe for other game elements like layouts and thems as well) to a
> different name. After this is done, we can make "default.desktop"
> something we can change at every release, if necessary. So if we decide
> for example that Bamboo is very cool when it is done, we could alias
> default.desktop to it for 4.3. People that want to use the old default
> would still find it there, as well as Classic, and all others.
>
> Opinions?

Wouldn't that leave you with a duplicated tile set in the tileset
selector? I had looked at doing something similar for Killbots themes,
but got stuck on the duplicate theme listings. I guess we could filter
default.desktop from the displayed results, but that would require all
users of KGameThemeSelector to be on board. It would also mean that no
theme would be preselected the first time the KGameThemeSelector was
displayed. Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "aliased".

Anyway, it's certainly a good idea. There are just some details to work out.

Parker