Re: gnome-games 2.3.5



On 2003-07-11(Fri) 23:30:58 +1200, Callum McKenzie wrote:
> gnome-games "Palm Cove" 2.3.5
> =============================
[.......]
> There is but one major change, most of the names have changed ! This
> hasn't been done to protect the innocent, or event the particularly
> guilty. Instead it is an attempt to get rid of GNOME-this and
> GNOME-that in the menus (as per the HIG). So "GNOME Robots" has become
> "Robots" and "GTali" has become "Tali". This change only affects the
> menus.

For the renaming, I'd want to propose one more:

	Mahjongg -> ShangHai Mahjongg

It's because there are 2 different kind of Mahjongg games, and the one
included in GNOME is only a variant of one kind of Mahjongg. If anybody
has played the mahjongg game in KDE, you'll know that the one in KDE is
a bit different, and it's another variant. The one played in Japan,
Taiwan, GuangDong, Hong Kong etc is completely different. Here's more
info in case people want to know:

ShangHai Mahjongg: (in GNOME)
A tile matching game for 1 player, where rightmost and leftmost matching
tiles can be removed.

SiChuan Mahjongg: (in KDE)
A tile matching game for 1 player, where matching tiles that can be joined
with no more than 3 horizontal/vertical lines can be removed.

Japanese / Taiwan / GuangDong / Hong Kong Mahjongg:
This is a 4 player game, and the arrangement is somewhat like Scrabble
without the board, and tiles are neatly arranged on table instead of
inside a bag :). Each player initially has 13 or 16(Taiwan) tiles, and
draws a tile from the table and dumps another one, until some certain
pattern is achieved (and be the winner).

Abel


> 
> The down side of this is that "glines" has become "Lines" and
> "GNOME-Stones" has become "Stones". Anyone who has a better idea can
> post suggestions under bug #117191 in Bugzilla.
> 
> Gnometris stays as Gnometris because it's really hard to avoid the
> trade-marked "Tetris" and still be descriptive.
> 
> The other user-visible change is that the gnomine (sorry, "Mines")
> window is now completely resizable and the size of the individual
> tiles follows the size of the window (the numbers and icons scale
> too). The explicit "mine size" item in the preferences dialog is
> gone.
> 
> There were also some minor fixes, some of them very embarrassing to
> the maintainer.
> 
> 
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