Updated package for the puzzle collection

[Steven **]

What are the new games?

I have oh-puzzles installed with the 24 separate icons.  But, I'm
using c_c's launcher app to provide a "Games" category.  I'd prefer to
be able to launch a specific game right away, as opposed to some sort
of launcher script that makes me select which game I want to launch.
I only play 3 or 4 of the 24 games anyways...

Perhaps you could do both?  By default, install a wrapper script.  But
also provide a second ipk that creates all the .desktop files for each
game.

-Steven

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:45 AM, EdorFaus <edorfaus at xepher.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally got tired enough of Loopy not working to do something about
> it, and ended up creating an updated package.
>
> This package has only been tested on SHR-U, but I think it should work
> on OM and other opkg-based ones too? As long as they have GTK+...
>
> The oh-puzzles package is an old fork of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle
> Collection[1], that doesn't seem to be updated these days. So I grabbed
> the original source from ST's repository instead, and compiled that with
> the OM toolchain. Only minor changes to the makefile was needed.
>
> Just for the record, this is NOT a new fork, nor do I intend to make
> one, this is just a build of the upstream source.
>
> Compared with oh-puzzles, this new package contains several new games
> and features, a working Loopy, and icons on all the desktop shortcuts.
>
> The icons were generated from the same source, using code that already
> existed for that purpose. The .desktop files are my addition though.
>
> On that note: does anyone know what the size(in pixels) is of the
> desktop icons on the default launcher? (so I can provide that size)
>
> I intend to maintain this package as new versions come out, and have
> (with that in mind) created a personal repository[2] holding it.
> I also uploaded it to opkg.org[3], so people can find it.
>
> I'm going to do some work on automating the building process, and
> hopefully get my changes into upstream source when I'm done (there's
> already code there for other platforms). One problem is the icon
> generation, which needs an X server and to run the built executables.
>
> In the meantime, anyone who wants more detail on the makefile changes or
> other parts of the process, can just ask me.
>
>
> I also hope to take a look at the frontend and getting support for
> singlebutton mice (such as the touchscreen) into it, and have some ideas
> for how to do that; but as I'm not familiar with GTK, don't hold your
> breath. This probably won't happen (by my hand) anytime soon.
>
>
> One thing of note is that having 27 new icons on the desktop from just
> this one package can be a bit much (though similiar to oh-puzzles' 24).
>
> Having a launcher (as fylefou suggested on opkg.org) might be a good
> alternative, but I don't know how (best) to make one, and don't know if
> everyone would like one (people using sortdesk might prefer not).
>
> I also considered making a monolithic binary with all the games in one,
> but as I would have to make a new frontend to do that, it's not
> something I could do quickly. Besides, that would probably take more
> memory to run.
>
> If anyone has any good ideas for this, I'm listening.
>
> --
> EdorFaus
>
> [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
> [2] http://ipk.edorfaus.info/armv4t
> [3] http://www.opkg.org/package_283.html
>
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