Bug#396043: Nailed it down..

[Sander Marechal]

Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006, Sander Marechal wrote:
>> If I use Andreas' patch (use first available style if the configured one
>> is missing) then we can get rid of the bonded.sng right? That would
>> remove the dependency on sng and avoid duplicating the Bonded style.
> 
>  It depends.  Anybody who has launched gnome-hearts in the past tries to
>  use "bonded.png"; there's also a report about bonded.svg being ugly in
>  comparison to bonded.png.  It's up to you, but if you remove
>  bonded.png, you might want to advertize this in NEWS.Debian (to hint
>  people that they need to update their .cfg).

There should be no need. When bonded.png fails to load, another
available style would be used instead. The game would only fail to load
if there are no card styles on the system at all (which in theory cannot
happen due to it's dependency on gnome-cards-data).

I want to go with a different solution than Andreas Henriksson's patch
though. His patch would load two styles on startup - not very nice
considering some complicated SVG styles take over 10 seconds to load on
my AMD64 3500+. I'll also add the same check for the background image -
in case a user deletes the custom image (s)he uses for a background.

I'll release it as gnome-hearts-0.1.3

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Sander Marechal
http://gnome-hearts.org/