[qgil]

(((My motivation in this topic is *personal* and unrelated with my job)))

Today I was checking again: there doesn't seem to be any chess game for Qt mobile. Specially for the handset form factor it is though: some tricks could be done porting desktop apps to the N900 thanks to its resistive screen and the stylus. But now that finger friendly capacitive displays are the norm I'm not sure at all that they will be usable.

Time to resurrect Miniature? Help!

Believe it or not Miniature has provided me some of the best moments with my N900 - even in its current incomplete and buggy state. Now I can finally show off publicly my Nokia N9 and N950 but... how good is that when I can't play chess with anybody with them?

So... I was wondering if there would be still some steam left in this project. Or if there are other ongoing chess initiatives, or simply Chess-loving developers around.

[rzr]

I'll try to build it using obs if no one does before

[venemo]

I could help with making a user interface for a chess app, but I'm incompetent about artifical intelligence development. :P

[vitna]

yeah the IA isn't simple to implement, pheraps we can find something in "miniature"

[mjk]

Originally Posted by rzr

I'll try to build it using obs if no one does before

Did you give it a shot? I'm not (yet) familiar with OBS and my Linux-box with Scratchbox needs to be revived first, because Miniature uses autotroll. Seems to me that due the dependencies it's a little though to get it build in my Mac.

I could be interest to help now that the public transportation app is little crowded (in a good way).

[qgil]

Thanks for the feedback! Miniature has already a good UI to start with, the only thing is that we might want to move to Qt Quick for easier development.

I have no idea how simple is to keep the current engine with all the logics.

The roadmap looks still good today: http://wiki.maemo.org/Miniature/Development#Roadmap

You can find the former developers and contributors at https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/chess-developer/

[rzr]

Hi,

1st, Do you know upstream scm url ?

First I tried to build it for debian, (ubuntu actually) but it seems it depends on outdated version of qt4-telephaty ...

src/pregame.cc: In constructor 'Miniature::MPreGame::MPreGame(QObject*)':
src/pregame.cc:53:91: error: cannot allocate an object of abstract type 'TpGame::TpTubesClientHandler'
./src/telepathy/tptubesclienthandler.h:40:1: note: because the following virtual functions are pure within 'TpGame::TpTubesClientHandler':
/usr/include/telepathy-1.0/TelepathyQt4/abstract-client.h:285:18: note: virtual void Tp::AbstractClientHandler::handleChannels(const Tp::MethodInvocationContextPtr<>&, const Tp::AccountPtr&, const Tp::ConnectionPtr&, const QList<Tp::SharedPtr<Tp::Channel> >&, const QList<Tp::SharedPtr<Tp::ChannelRequest> >&, const QDateTime&, const Tp::AbstractClientHandler::HandlerInfo&)
src/pregame.cc:73:79: error: cannot allocate an object of abstract type 'TpGame::TpApproverManager'
./src/telepathy/tpapprovermanager.h:41:1: note: because the following virtual functions are pure within 'TpGame::TpApproverManager':
/usr/include/telepathy-1.0/TelepathyQt4/abstract-client.h:109:18: note: virtual void Tp::AbstractClientApprover::addDispatchOperation(c onst Tp::MethodInvocationContextPtr<>&, const Tp::ChannelDispatchOperationPtr&)
make[2]: *** [src/src_miniature-pregame.o] Error 1

[mjk]

Originally Posted by rzr

1st, Do you know upstream scm url ?

First I tried to build it for debian, (ubuntu actually) but it seems it depends on outdated version of qt4-telephaty ...

I think the upstream code is hosted in Gitorious as said in wiki pointed by qgil.

Telepathy API must have changed according to that error. Are you already trying to refactor the code use the version provided by Harmattan SDK? I can also check what kind of changes are required (but not immediately).

[qgil]

Hi, I asked at the developer list and got this answer:

Probably needs to setup telepathy correctly in configure.ac
But should also be possible to disable telepathy.

[mikhas]

Miniature doesn't have an AI, only a move validator (actually, it validates positions, but you get the idea). I never got to the part to hook up real engines ...