[Kde-games-devel] Freeze in 6 weeks

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 27 de gener de 2015, a les 15:53:32, Ian Wadham va escriure:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> Re Save and Load in KMahjongg requiring kded and friends:-
> 
> On 27/01/2015, at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Ah, maybe it's the use of kio :/
> 
> Any game or any app can crash… and then DrKonqi requires KIO
> (via XML remote procedure calls) to connect to Bugzilla and submit
> a bug report or check for duplicates.  I cannot see DrK for KF5 being
> re-worked in any immediate time frame… :-(
> 
> > Is that strictly required for kmahjongg to save and load files?
> 
> No.  Actually, KMJ uses getSaveUrl() but then goes on to check that
> it has a local file name.  On the load(), it uses getOpenUrl() and then:
>     KIO::NetAccess::download(url, fname, this);
> A "braces and belt" approach?
> 
> I think consistency should be restored, i.e. use getSaveFileName() and
> getOpenFileName().  The actual file-I/O code in KMahjongg is using
> QFile and QDataStream.
> 
> > Isn't QFileDialog and such adequate here?
> 
> Should be!  With the added benefit that QFileDialog gives you a native
> file dialog on non-Linux platforms… :-)  This can make Qt-based apps
> consistent with other apps on that platform.
> 
> > I mean are we expecting to save and load the save games over the
> > network or something that would require kio?
> 
> No, not in KMahjongg.  But with some games, who knows?  Do KSudoku
> and Palapeli players want to exchange puzzles over the Internet?  Or use
> remote locations to save their games?
> 
> Or are those features there because network-transparent I/O was fashionable
> with KDE Games programmers a few years ago?… ;-)  It is not that hard to
> save a file locally and then move it to a remote site… or attach it to an
> email...

This is non-sense, why remove network-transparency? What you should do is fix 
KF5 on Mac OSX to work instead of removing features from apps.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers, Ian W.
> 
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