Kajongg

Kajongg - the classical Mah Jongg for four players. If you are looking for the Mah Jongg solitaire please use the application KMahjongg.

Kajongg is covered by the GNU GPL2 license - see COPYING.

Kajongg can be used in two different ways: Scoring a manual game where you play as always and use Kajongg for the computation of scores and for bookkeeping. Or you can use Kajongg to play against any combination of other human players or computer players.

Kajongg comes with a ruleset for classical chinese as played in Germany. You can change the ruleset at your will and also define whole new rulesets. The rules for a game are saved in the database, so every game could be played with different rules. Changing a ruleset does not affect existing games.

Since KDE SC 4.5 Kajongg is part of the KDE games, so I do not offer a separate downloadable package anymore. If your favorite distribution should not yet distribute Kajongg, please ask them for it. The major distributions like Ubuntu, Opensuse, Fedora do.

You can always get the current source code from here:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdegames/kajongg

Please also visit http://kde.org/applications/games/kajongg/

If you want to send me bug reports, please either use the kajongg menu commmand Help / Report Bug or mail me directly to the Mail Address given in that bug reporting dialog. I will not follow links to pages I do not trust like upload pages, shortlink services or similar.



Recent changes

The upcoming version 4.6 (part of KDE SC 4.6 Beta 1) will offer a lot of enhancements over the last version 0.4.0 that was downloadable from this page.

- The manual now contains an introduction into the game
- Tiles can be discarded by dragging them with the mouse
- Make tiles in the hand larger and others smaller for better playability on small screens
- Make games suspendable / resumable
- Animate moving tiles
- Demo mode: Watch four computer players
- More complete implementation of the Classical Chinese rules
- As an option show only possible actions (like calling Pung)
- Many more smaller fixes and improvements



Requirements

If you install Kajongg from your Linux distribution, you can skip this.

Kajongg is a true KDE4 application and therefore requires the KDE4 libraries KDE4 as well as the Qt4 libraries. However you can of course also use it in a GNOME environment.

Please read debian.control for information about what other software needs to be installed for using Kajongg.



Installing Kajongg

Again, if you install Kajongg from your Linux distribution, you can skip this chapter.

First, get the source code as described above.

cd kajongg
./setup.py install



Translations

The above installation will install Kajongg without any translations. Please install the wanted KDE language packs from your linux distribution.

Here you can check if there is a translation for you:
http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/po/kajongg.po/