Re: Modernization update and WoG feature

["Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> World of GNOME picked up on our games modernization effort [1] so we
> have some nice publicity there. (Never mind that they seem to think it's
> new.)
>
> Anyway, some updates:
>
> * 11/15 games have an application menu, but none have been added since
> 3.10. Nibbles, Four-in-a-Row, and Robots still need ported to
> GtkApplication. (Bryan has already started work on Nibbles.) Sudoku is
> done in the Vala port.
>
> * 9/15 games are using GtkHeaderBar, from zero in 3.10. (The wogue
> screenshots only show seven games complete because Mario did
> Quadrapassel and Tali just yesterday.) Klotski is easy pickings, so we I
> expect at least 10/15 for 3.12. The rest of the games will require a bit
> more work.
>
> There have also been a lot of GTK-side improvements to header bars in
> 3.12 to make them not suck outside of GNOME [2] like they did in 3.10,
> so we luckily won't be needing any fallback code for Unity and other
> desktops.
>
> * Most of the games using header bars have had some degree of UI
> redesign. Mines and Tetravex have seen the most significant changes.
> Robert did some good work on Iagno, but it's not ready for master quite
> yet. (I'm hoping to get to that soon.) Chess lost the toolbar that I
> added for 3.10 and grew a gear menu instead.
>
> * Our biggest deficiency right now is new game screens.
>
> * Vala ports of Five or More and Sudoku are stalled. Sudoku is
> reasonably complete, but needs a lot of polish.

I should really finish the vala port of Five or More soon. It
basically stalled back then because I was planning to do the game view
as a clutter scene. But then things changed and clutter did not seem
like the obvious choice anymore.