GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315489
stock item for Deal a card
Last modified: 2008-04-01 12:14:13 UTC
Trying to use keyboard navigation a bit more and realised Aislriot doesn't include any menu item or keyboard shortcut for to Deal another card. (Menu items are easily discoverable and the keybinding is right there so they effectively document themselves.) Blackjack includes a menu item for Deal and it is something most card games will need. So this request is for a Gnome Games stock items for Deal which could be used in both Blackjack and Aisleriot.
Quick comment, I'd disagree about turning it into a stock item.... "Blackjack" calls dealing another card "Hit", and it already has a shortcut assigned to it, "H" In solitaire games, "Deal" really tends to apply to two cases... Dealing in a brand new game, or dealing out a number of cards to the tableau when you get stuck, as in Spider. Outside of that dealing a single card should really just be referred to as "Draw".
I have to agree with Richard that this is impractical. Even amongst the games in aisleriot there isn't a common denominator. Having each game implement suitable bindings for space and enter might be a good idea, but there is nothing universal we can grab onto for a stock item. Keyboard support in aisleriot is practically non-existant anyway :(.
I'd appreciate if you could turn this into something which addresses the problems rather than closing it WONTFIX :( or point me to bugs which already address the problems
No problem, that would Bug #126284.
Just to clarify, Bug #126284 addressess general lack of keyboard support in Aisleriot... when Aisleriot gets assessed, fixed, and removed from that list, it may or may not gain shortcuts including "Draw", and there's even the chance that no new shortcuts will get added. ---- To really tackle this bug, first we need to get typical keyboard support... after that, "someone" would have to either: 1) Luck out by finding a volunteer willing to overlook all 60+ other outstanding gnome-games bugs and requests. 2) Pay Vincent Povirk for his services to comb through every game 3) Learn Scheme in his free time so that he could contriubte to gnome-games code. This person would then have to rewrite every game in aisleriot to not only support Deal, but also shortcuts like jumping to empty foundation slots. I agree with the WONTFIX resolution in this case.
The stock item has been added in bug 474698 (still need a better icon though), and the keybinding to deal new cards is being implemented in bug 445955.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 445955 ***