Bug 152243

i have to agree; the white oxygen cards are much easier to determine what they are and they still look nice and striking.

I presume that we are talking about the playing cards in card games.

Yes, I think that all of the KDE4 card faces are too artsy.  The simple solution to this is to include the traditional styles: "Standard" & "Bonded" in the selections.

I happened to click the "Settings -> Random Cards" you can select one of the more traditional card faces which you can't seem to select with "Settings -> Select Deck".  This is strange.

I also miss my green background.

Thanks for your answer.
I've magaged to install the original gane of kde3, which is ok.
Best regards
Eddy

Having looked into this, I am revising the bug.

IMHO, the problem isn't that there are various overly artsy card decks which I personally don't like.  The problem is that I can't easily select the standard "Bonded" style US size cards (IIUC, US cards are fatter rectangles than European ones).

I find that the Card Deck Selection dialog only shows the SVG card decks for selection although the PNG decks which include the standard US style decks are installed and can be selected with the "Random Cards" function.

So, I don't see this as an artist issue since the problem is that you can't use the dialog to select the PNG card decks.  So, this is a code issue with KPat.

SVN commit 750440 by coolo:

everyone (beside jrt) agrees that white cards are
better 
CCBUG: 152243


 M  +2 -2      cardmaps.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=750440

This isn't about the color of the cards, it is about their design.

I did not file the original bug report.

Created attachment 22636 [details]
Screen Shot showing that the KDE3 cards do work

There seems to be some confusion about this bug.

Not liking the default is not a bug.  If that is actually the issue, then the
bug should be closed as invalid or changed to a wishlist item.

HOWEVER, not being able to select a carddeck which you like -- specifically not
being able to select the cards which you used in KDE3 *is* a bug.

The KDE3 cards do work in the KDE4 version.  However, it is not possible to
select them with the Carddeck Selection dialog.

Created attachment 22649 [details]
KPat config dialog showing card selection with grey

From what I can see, JRT is right - the KDE3 cards still work, but can't be
chosen. I don't really understand why the 'fixed size' thing is greyed out, I
was unable to get it to work.

Using 'F9' (random cards) repeatedly with a maximized window will show the
fixed-size and SVG cards pass you by... But you can only choose SVG cards in
the IU.

I see three solutions:
Let's ignore this (meh...)
Disable the old artwork (some won't be happy ;-))
Allow choosing fixed size artwork. I guess this one would be the best, and it
seems the work on that is *almost* done, as there is already an option to allow
choosing fixed-size artwork.

Imho there shouldn't be a separate option, btw, just let fixed size artwork be
there too. The scalable ones are already called SVG, make that Scalable and add
'fixed' to the old artwork. Maybe also remove the 'lock backside to frontside',
I don't see why it's that important and the options just clutter the interface.


This isn't meant to bash KPat, it rocks and is one of those apps you can use
for showing off KDE 4 during presentations ;-)
(and I like the SVG artwork so I would not be unhappy with removing the old
artwork...)

I note that this appears to _currently_ work in TRUNK, which is no guarantee that it will work in the next release BRANCH. 

It still doesn't work in the 4.0 BRANCH.

JRT: Are you _sure_ this is fixed in the trunk? I can't find the relevant commit. If you're referring to coolo's commit from comment #5, that one just changes the default theme from Oxygen to Oxygen-white, that's definitely not critical to backport.

I don't know if it was deliberately fixed or not.  Sometimes problems just mysteriously go away.  If that is the case, it should be closely watched till the release of 4.1.0.

But, yes! it does work.  I can select the PNG card decks.  I have tried "Standard" and "Konqi", and they work.  There is a slight issue with the background when using the PNG decks.

OTOH, for some reason the there is a problem with the GNOME "Bonded" deck.  It loads fine but the cards have the wrong aspect ratio -- they are too short.

I think this can be closed, no? I can select PNG decks in KPat in 4.1

Yes, this works in the 4.1 release.