[achipa]

There used to be a QML based one, Shakki, no idea in what stage it is or if the author is around here, though...

[mjk]

mikhas: I looked around a little bit and some code (like one for start screen) depends on Telepathy-related files and it seems that disabling Telepathy requires some code changes too. Did I get it wrong?

[jukey]

As for the N900 version of Miniature I am willing to test every version available for Harmattan.

For me personally the feature 'play on freechess.org'(fics) is the most importend one. Let me know how to help (but I am not a experienced Qt/QML/C++ developer (yet)).

[mjk]

I have refactored the Telepathy-related to code to use API version 0.6.0. Next I will do the Meego-specific MainWindow so it's possible to test the code/app in scratchbox/emulator/device. Of course, I will push the changes to my Gitorious clone when I'm done.

jukey: I'll post the progress updates here. When the code is pushed to git, we could split the next "todos".

If anyone else has started to code "Meego-Miniature", please, let me know.

[mikhas]

@mjik, others: I don't think the Miniature code itself is really good for one of the goals we always had in mind: different backends for different play modes. Currently, the whole game logic is dependent on the backend. Also, there are no auto tests, which is really bad for the backends. There's a lot of raciness in thad TP/Miniature code.

That's why I tried a cleaner approach yesterday:
https://gitorious.org/miniature/mini...commits/encore
https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/c...ly/000153.html

The advantage this time around: I can enable a command line interface, which is great for testing and rapid development (of the backends).

[qgil]

Originally Posted by achipa

There used to be a QML based one, Shakki, no idea in what stage it is or if the author is around here, though...

http://www.meego.de/apps/maemo/spiel...hachspiel.html
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/shakki

No idea about the backend, but at least the UI doesn't look too appealing. How hard would it be to port the original Miniature UI to Qt Quick with Qt Designer? I might give it a shot. Any advice is welcome.

[mjk]

mikhas: Good thing that I was travelling and working a lot last week so I didn't get much done (only initial transition to qmake and refactoring Telepathy-code). I'm happy to help you with new backend implementation, for example with Telepathy-support.

Great that you also changed to qmake. Makes it possible for me to develop outside Scratchbox+Linux -environment.

qgil: I think that MainWindow needs to be reimplemented, but scene (chess board) is based on QGraphicsScene so it should work with QML. However, would it be better if we simply create a new UI based on Miniature and use mikhas's new backend?

[qgil]

I can't be considered a coder (neither a designer, but that's another thing ). When I talk about "porting" the original Miniature UI I really mean redoing it from scratch using Qt Designer.

[mikhas]

BTW, #miniature @ freenode still exists, in case things need to be discussed more directly.

[timoph]

Originally Posted by qgil

http://www.meego.de/apps/maemo/spiel...hachspiel.html
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/shakki

the Maemo garage git repo is empty.

Anyway. I don't have much time to contribute to this project but give me a shout when you need people to test it. As of now I'm also idling in #miniature