Bug#755283: Bug#769673: RFS: lletters/0.1.95+gtk2-4 [ITA, RC]
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:37:04PM +0200, Dmitry Borisyuk wrote:
> I looked at everything once more, and decided not to adopt lletters.
> Sorry for wasting your time.
Perhaps the package (both lletters and letters-media) should be RMed
instead?
* dead upstream since 2001
* not quite the best children's game...
* can be recreated in a RAD tool like Lazarus in minutes:
• make a button, resize it
• set the button's action to "launch a modal dialog with the button's
caption (the letter) as argument"
• copy&paste it 35 times, labelling with sequential digits+letters,
arranged in a rough grid without caring much about alignment
• set the main window to scalable
• create that dialog -- with a large image inside that's loaded from
the disk, the image's click action being "close the dialog"
• on the dialog's start, play a sound if it exists. For bonus points
compared to lletters, DON'T crash doing so.
• ... and that's all
* likewise, lletters-media can be recreated/greatly improved by throwing
everything away then raiding a collection of freely-licensed images.
Picking a set with a semi-consistent style would be a large change.
* localization is worse than none. For Polish, for example, more than
half buttons use a word from some other language.
* letters not in Polish (q, v, x) are present while ć, ł, ó, ś, ż, ź
are missing
Thus, if no one steps up to maintain, perhaps it'd be better to axe
lletters. It would save the time of QA (most recently, Markus Koschany
fixing multiple FTBFS bugs).
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[re-sending to mention this in the O bug]
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