Re: SVG for Gnome Card Games

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Hi Steven,

That sounds quite cool.  However, I'm not actively doing anything on
AisleRiot right now, so I'm forwarding your offer to
games-list gnome org 

Thanks,
-Jonathan

Steven Garrity <steven silverorange com> writes:

> Jonathan,
> I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask, but you're name is at
> the top of the list in the credits window for AisleRiot  :-)
> 
> 
> I was wondering if there are any plans on the table (no pun intended) to
> use SVG for rending the cards in the various Gnome card
> games?
> 
> 
> Inspired by a shot of what Microsoft is doing with their card-games
> with XAML
> (http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2005/05/03/414148.aspx), I
> would love to see the quality available with SVG+Cairo in our Gnome
> card games.
> 
> I would be able to volunteer to get the SVG card artwork (either
> through creating it myself, or soliciting help from others - hopefully
> both) if there is any hope that such artwork might be able to be used.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm a designer, and not a developer/coder myself, so I
> can't really help with the implementation.
> 
> Let me know if any of this makes any sense - thanks,
> Steven Garrity