Re: [Ayatana] "Games"-application idea

[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it would be used rather extensively since most people don't want to put all their games in the launcher since it clutters it completely and I atleast don't want to have to search for them everytime I want to find a game. I guess it's the feeling of well organised content that appeals most. This would also simplify the whole process by having one launcher for all your games and even provide meta data.

Regular Steam users tend to (from my experience) put all their games in their steam launcher to make them easily accessible. On my windows partition I only have one icon for all my games and that is Steam. It makes the whole thing fast and easy. Most importantly, as I stated before, it would encourage gaming on Ubuntu.

I believe that instead of just dismissing the gaming situation on linux as "Developers will never focus on us since they don't have market here" and settle for having it as an office workstation we should make it as gamer friendly we can! Because if we get the gamers to Ubuntu, we also get the hardware vendors to create good drivers.

2011/5/3 James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ah right. I agree that it could be more visible - but I'm not sure how
many users would use something like that. You have to balance features
with "How many users are actually going to use this thing?"

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On 05/02/2011 06:01 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote:
> I know, that's why I said: "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'".
>
> Also sorry about mentioning Desura, I just realised it hasn't been
> released yet. All the talk about Project Bossanova these days got me
> fooled :)
>
> On 02/05/11 23:51, James Gifford wrote:
>> 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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