Re: Gnect Themes not working as documented.

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Callum McKenzie wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:52:27 +1200
> From: Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>
> To: games-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Gnect Themes not working as documented.
>
> First of all, an apology: my response wasn't meant to be private.

No need to apologise.

> short, its a bug (#307446 to be precise).

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307446

> Also, SVG should Just Work (TM).

GdkPixbuf rocks but I digress ...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/alanhorkan/3677.html#gnect-themes

The above link is to a journal page which shows the themes I have created
over the past few days.  Classic and Clean have been recreated in SVG
easily enough and I will try and do more later.

I would like to propose "Sunspot"  as a new default theme for Gnect, it is
the theme which has the buttons with the 4 on them.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300504
Hopefully my theme will make this guy a little less miserable.

As I wrote in my journal the Octagon theme could probably do with more
work but if people like it I will submit it for inclusion in
gnome-games-data-extras.  First however I will be submitting my graphics
to OpenClipart, then you can do anything you like with them.

Do you think it might be possible to make the SVG theme sheets more
consistent so they might be shared between different games?  I'm not
looking forward to drawing suitable animation frames but I probably will
eventually to have consistent themes across various games.

> > The existing High Contrast theme looks like the Handiwork of Jimmac.  I
> > would be surprised if it was not originally created using Adobe
> > Illustrator and the orignal vector graphics may be available for
> > conversion to SVG.

The changelog makes no mention of jimmac, I may as well recreate it from
scratch myself.  Did anyone like the "emulator" theme?  I might give that
a go too if I thought anyone was interested.  Given the next gnome release
will be in the Autumn I'm tempted to try and put together a suitable theme
for Halloween.  There are no shortage of things I could try but feel free
to throw suggestions at me too.

> I have the vague memory that the gdk_pixbuf SVG loader doesn't do animation.
> I'm not sure though.

I was thinking rsvg might have some support but it is not important.


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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