[Kde-games-devel] Re: Tagaro as an application?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday, January 16, 2011, Stefan Majewsky wrote:

neat idea! :)

> * downloading content (levels or levelpacks) and keeping it up-to-date
> * downloading and selecting themes

if you are thinking of content and themes that are approved/curated by 
upstream kde games first, then synchrotron can already provide this service 
(as could hotstuff.org?). a shared KDE install of synchrotron should be up on 
a production kde.org server in fairly short order (was talking with toma about 
this today, and the server is already selected; just some work needed on the 
db side as i was using pgsql and they use mysql on those servers).

note that synchrotron does not do user contributed content, but that may not 
be an issue for you. it isn't for plasma or kdevelop, for instance, since we 
both have other means for that :)

> [2] Setting up a server that converts Images of the Day (e.g. from
> Wikipedia) to Puzzles of the Day is a long-standing idea of mine, which I
> did not realize yet.

with synchrotron, you could run this on your home system from a cron job and 
have it commit the results to git. easily scripted, and you could run it 
wherever it makes sense for you. it would then show up within 15 minutes on 
the main synchrotron server. :)

palapelli would then just need to check for entries when showing its list of 
available puzzles.

the client-side code to make this as easy as possible is mostly there in 
libattica. one of my upcoming tasks is to look at how easy it is to use that 
to access a synchrotron install without KNewStuff (which is very much GUI 
centric)

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