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Re: [Ayatana] "Games"-application idea



There is already a way to do this - it's hidden, but it's there [1]

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

[1] http://lts.cr/arr

On 05/02/2011 05:05 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote:
> Wouldn't it be sweet to be able to gather up all games into a
> "games"-application, similar to the one used for system settings or the
> games folder in windows vista/7? Since the traditional gnome menu is
> gone we need a new way to gather up games, we have the
> "applications"-lens which is good but it can't give a description of any
> of the games or meta information as: "last played" or "10 hours of total
> game time". Think of it as a mini-Desura or mini-Steam client. Without
> all the extra bling and functions. Just a simple way to organise games
> which can be set as a launcher, which also supports a quick list for
> recently played games.
> 
> How about it? Couldn't that be a great addition to the Unity shell? This
> would also encourage gaming on Linux platforms and hopefully also
> developers to start providing Linux-clients.
> 
> (Ubuntu should also try to include more games into it's repositories to
> encourage gaming on ubuntu, games like Minecraft which is hugely popular
> should definitely be there as well as Desura)
> 
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