Re: How to get the orbs of SameGnome back?

[Vesa Paatero <vpaatero lavabit com>]

Hi,

I wrote and Jason responded:
> >  I and our children were recently disappointed to find that the orbs of
> >  SameGnome have been lost. Why on earth did you guys change the good-looking
> >  orbs of SameGnome to the plain squares of Swell Foop, without any option to
> >  use "legacy graphics" or anything?
>  They were neither good looking nor scalable. The new engine has animation
>  and the old one did not. By any objective measure, the new version is an
>  improvement.
 
Come on, that's not really true. For example, the new script-based
system is slower: When you gather a large contiguous area of the
same color in Swell Foop and click to remove it, you
notice an extra delay... how clear it is, depends on your computer.

Mark wrote:
>  Does Swell Foop use customizable /replaceable SVGs for its images? (all GNOME games really should)
>  If so, couldn't someone remake the orbs "good looking" and in scalable SVG?


Thanks for suggesting. As to my case, I managed to install the game
by ripping apart the .deb package of an older version.

The high scores, however, no longer work in either game.
For Swell Foop, I can find the score files in /var/games and
see their reasonable contents, but the game won't show them.
(it is v1.0).

Vesa