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[Ryan Swart <serjndestroy@xxxxxxxxx>]

This idea sounds pretty cool, as I understand it, you will have a full
screen interface like Elisa or Ubuntu Netbook Remix, instead of just being a
windowed app like Mirthkit or DJL (mirthkit also only seems to support games
developed for it)

The only problem I see regards the fact that people don't /just/ play games
a lot of the time. You like to have controll over your music, have an im
client or irc open, heck, even browse the web a lot of the time.. Having an
interface that limits you to gaming could be problematic, maybe solved by
integrating those activities into the app?

But barde, definitely check out DJL <http://en.djl-linux.org/> in the
meanwhile, the team has similar objectives and making a nice
interface/adding functionality to the project would be awesome :)

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Khalid Rashid <khalid.rashid@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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