[Hamara-users] contribution idea - wallpapers and screensavers for hamara + jigsaws

[shirish]

adding to the thread above.

I was not remembering the jigsaw tool which is and could be used for 
making jigsaws out of photographs that are done .

See palapeli https://www.kde.org/applications/games/palapeli/

The game is an apt-get/aptitude away, although dunno if it's in hamara. 
It comes from the KDE base.

You can see some iterations of the game online as well, for instance see -

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/palapeli

What I am saying is that we could have more and more images which are 
copyleft (CC-0) or (CC-SA) and could make a package and bundle it in 
hamara.

Something like palapeli-data-extra and it could have anything from 20 to 
100 of puzzles or more. We could make sets of different things. You 
could look at lenagames.com as an inspiration as to how the sets could 
be done.

I actually know the current committer and the person who started it. I 
asked the most recent prolific committer as to what drew him to the game 
and if there was a roadmap and here is/was his answer -

"No, there is no roadmap. My big addition was some features to assist
in solving large puzzles (> 300 pieces). That was early in 2014.  When
I have time, I might add some small features and fix a few bugs, but I 
am working on other things right now.

No.  The joy of Palapeli is that you can create your own puzzles from
any image or photograph.  I do this quite often.  Palapeli can go from
4 pieces up to 10,000.  The small ones are good for young children.

It takes only a few moments to make a new puzzle.  It is also nice to
solve a puzzle from one of your favourite pictures.  It makes you see
the picture in more depth than ever before… :-)

I might even allow the default puzzles to be deleted/restored by the 
user, to make space in his or her collection.  I recently made the 
display of the collection into a two-dimensional table, to fit more 
puzzles on the page, because the default puzzles were crowding out my 
own puzzles… :-) " - Ian Wadham, current committer and maintainer of 
Palapeli.

If people are curious as to how this can be done, I would suggest them 
to look at how stellarium has done it.  The star catalogue which is 
officially shared with stellarium is a measly 130 MB but if you go on 
the site, you could download the optional star catalogues.

The new 0.14.0 just released few days back and now in Debian, would be 
in testing in 4 more days -

http://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/news/2015/10/stellarium-0140/

  [$] apt-cache policy stellarium 
                                                              [20:20:27]
stellarium:
   Installed: 0.13.3-2
   Candidate: 0.13.3-2
   Version table:
      0.14.0-1 1
           1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
  *** 0.13.3-2 600
         600 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

tracker.debian.org/stellarium

And from the homepage of stellarium

* "default catalogue of over 600,000 stars "

* "extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Extra-data-files/


I did this a time or two but is needed by/for the pros. or amateurs, not 
irregular users like me.

In case of palapeli though, a similar package could be made which would 
have all that we want.

It currently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Plasma_5 . Has there been 
any thought to move to KDE 5 ?

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org