Ian, Thanks for a really nice suggestion. Sadly, libkdegames has had an failure on Mojave for the last 18 months. There’s a purported solution followed by a comment that it’s not the right way to do things which leaves me debating whether to try a “not right way” solution that is reported to work but will maybe cause strangeness down the road for things that are more critical than a game. Lenore
> On Mar 29, 2020, at 20:03, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com > <mailto:iandw...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > If you like jigsaw puzzles and are isolated or stuck at home due to > coronavirus and looking for things to do, try the Palapeli port, which is > part of KDE Games 4. > > Advantages are: > > - You can cut your own puzzles from your own photos, etc. > - You can choose the number of pieces and the general shape, using any of > several “slicer” modules. > - When playing, the game saves its state to disk every two seconds. > - It can handle puzzles up to 10,000 pieces in size, providing “holder” > windows for subsets of pieces, such as Sky, Edges, etc. > - The manual is comprehensive and is online at > https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdegames/palapeli/index.html > <https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdegames/palapeli/index.html> or google kde > docs palapeli. > - An optional Preview window lets you see all or part of the completed puzzle. > - The game is in good working order, except for occasional crashes with minor > impact (see below). > - You get a starter library of five easy puzzles and can add your own puzzles > to it. > > Disadvantages are: > > - Palapeli takes a while to install under MacPorts, because it has a huge > chain of dependencies via qt4-mac and kdelibs4, but you can break up the load > by installing those two ports first from the binaries. > - Pieces are not rotated when the puzzle is shuffled. > - The functionality of the game has not changed for a few years: I was the > last maintainer, but am retired from FOSS development now. > - Crashes can occur when you move and join pieces rapidly: I was never able > to find why, but the autosave feature (see above) ensures that you do not > lose hours of work. > - If you have a Linux system, Palapeli is available in a maintained KF5 > version, but I don’t think there are many bug fixes or new features. > > “Palapeli" is a German word with a meaning something like “pell-mell” in > English. > > Enjoy, > Ian Wadham.
