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[Khalid Rashid <khalid.rashid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Barde

I skimmed through your email, so I'm sorry if i missed anything [?] I think
your idea sounds pretty similiar to mirthkit, which is already in existance
and FOSS. Did you check it out?

BR,

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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 17:54, b4rd3 <barde667@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi there, Ubuntu Gaming Team.
>
> Let me shortly introduce myself. I am a 27 years old programmer and web
> designer with a certain dedication to making music, playing games,
> creating media and so on... of course on linux operating systems.
>
> I primarily used Gentoo Linux for many many years now, but some time ago
> I switched to Ubuntu, 'cause it just means less trouble. At all fronts
> you don't have to fight your system, many things will just work (even
> out of the box). That's an important point these days. Linux evolved and
> many many problems we once had were solved by time. But there's one
> thing remaining:
> We've got too many distributions, so especially developers of games
> don't have all the resources to test their games on every platform or
> distribution. We need a certain "base" - I just call it Ubuntu in these
> days.
> Also, there are too many games that are not really known to the public.
> They are in the repositories, but just few people ever installed them.
> The good ones should be better promoted.
>
> And now let me explain my idea as quickly as possible...
> Well, I have the idea to write a gaming frontend ( I already have a
> proof of concept - it works). This frontend should replace a normal
> Desktop Environment when Ubuntu is in "Gaming Mode". E.g. if you're
> running XFCE4 or similar, then you would start the frontend ( or make
> the frontend to your standard X11 Environment if you like , just tell
> GDM to start it rather than XFCE/ Gnome/ etc..).
> The frontend that appears then will check the users password ( he has to
> enter it once, so the system can do all things to come automatically
> later on) and check if 3d acceleration is activated as well as an
> internet connection is enabled. These are things that often should run
> just out of the box on a modern ubuntu system. Well, the frontend will
> then offer a list of game categories that you can select and then you
> come to a list containing games to this category. You will see, which
> games are installed at the moment and which ones are not. If the game is
> not installed, the player can just click on an install button and the
> system will apt-get it instantly from the ubuntu repositories (that's
> where the password comes into play). The user even can purge games, if
> he doesn't want to have it on his system anymore. You'll also see if the
> games can be played with more than one player and so on.
>
> To minimalize the development times of the frontend , my idea is to use
> a ruby based framework called MERB and write the whole frontend as a
> local running web application,rather than program the whole interface in
> a language like C / C++ or whatever. So we basically could use a lot of
> media and the interface can look whatever you like to. Settings will be
> stored in a portable sqlite3 database and the application itself will be
> running as a local user process with the help of the mongrels server,
> that itself is written in ruby/c++.
> With the help of the database, we could extend the system at any time
> without much bliss. The User can update the system database with the
> newly available games and so it can offer more games later on.
>
> We could extend the application so that it stores some data of the User
> like his nickname and
> Further development could lead to the creation of a gaming league that
> bases on oss games. We could use the system to promote new oss games
> from developers who otherwise wouldn't get much attention, for example.
>
> So it's clear that this is a lot of work, but with the help of some of
> you guys, we could get something together in the not too far away
> future. Xorg X11 development makes good progress in these days and 3d
> games and engines will support linux, if just a broader community would
> shine on.
> Maybe we could even use wine... writing scripts to automatically install
> windows games from cd /dvd that otherwise would be a pain to install for
> most users. There are plenty of ideas, we just have to stand up and the
> penguin out.
>
> many greetings from austria to everyone who reads this.
>
> btw. i say "thank you" to every bit of comment or criticism
>
> regards,
> barde
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