After chatting with a buddy of mine who games a lot, I have to agree. (I don't normally game). Cheers, James Gifford http://jamesrgifford.com On 05/03/2011 10:06 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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) > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > >>> Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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