Re: SVG for Gnome Card Games

[David Bellot <david bellot gmail com>]

> > 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.
> >    
Hey, we have svg cards in gnome games since a while.
My own card has been included in the gnome-games extra but I'm working 
on a new lighter version of it which is, IMHO, by far more beautiful 
than the MS one.
It's not yet finish but you can have a look at the old one here : 
http://david.bellot.free.fr/svg-cards/
And a preview of the new one (a few bugs and the back to import but I'm 
hard at work these days, so it's gonna be finished in June) : 
http://david.bellot.free.fr/files/new.svg
The new design is better for computer screens and lighter (from 4.4 Mb 
to 900Kb)

Enjoy
David