GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756726
Documentation out of date
Last modified: 2018-05-22 12:24:50 UTC
Filing a bug so some things that are out of date in the documentation aren't forgotten: * Images (game-3-12.png, preferences-appearance-3-12.png, preferences-game-3-12.png) have all slightly changed since 3.12, with added or removed options and icons. * the "toolbar" is now a header bar. * 3D view should not be mentioned as it has been removed. * "his modern equivalent, Vladimir Kramnik, is the 14th Champion in the lineage." This is now out of date as we're up to the 16th world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen. * "GNOME Chess can be played in network mode against other players on the Internet." I have not found this, so I think the functionality has been removed. * Menus section: There are no longer the four menus Game, View, Settings and Help, so this section needs to be updated.
Hi, would you like to provide new images for 3.18? You're also welcome to provide patches for the docs, if you have the time. Otherwise, we'll look at it for 3.20.
(In reply to Kat from comment #1) > Hi, would you like to provide new images for 3.18? You're also welcome to > provide patches for the docs, if you have the time. Otherwise, we'll look at > it for 3.20. The program has an extra gray frame of a few pixels width on my system, so it doesn't look quite as visually appealing as I'd like. I'll send in some pictures if I get it to look better though. Found one more string to think about: * "it is possible to setup the number of human and AI (computer) players." I would interpret this as meaning that computer vs computer games are possible. I can't see such an option in the settings though, it seems one player always must be human.
Adding one more outdated thing in the help so I don't forget it: C/index.docbook:663 "<application>GNOME Chess</application> was written by Robert Ancell, and is now maintained in gnome-games." This is no longer the case since the games have all been split to individual packages. Also it is potentially confusing since there now is a new, unrelated, package with the name gnome-games: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/
(In reply to Anders Jonsson from comment #3) > This is no longer the case since the games have all been split to individual > packages. Also it is potentially confusing since there now is a new, > unrelated, package with the name gnome-games: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/ +1 I met a ton of interested-to-be-contributors to games confused by this in GNOME.Asia
To be fair, there is a loosely connected gnome-games team that maintains the games of the former gnome-games collection and it is kinda Adrien's fault that the new project has name that already had a meaning within the gnome ecosystem. Still +1 for keeping documentation up to date.
Created attachment 341367 [details] [review] New images after GUI changes Here is a first patch that replaces the old images from 3.12 with images from 3.22
The help documentation also claims the application is licensed under GPL-2+ while the vala source files themselves claim GPL-3+
Perhaps we should just remove the user help.
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