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[Christian Ahmer <barde667@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mathieu,
thanx a lot... obviously there are people working on such things.
I also thought about supporting emulated games - it wouldn't be that difficult, 
but at first one has to set some priorities.

At first there should be a limited support of games - at the moment I think 
about just these games that you can get directly out of the official 
repositories. This would mean, that these games would run. It's not that 
trivial to run every single game on every distribution. Just think about 
32bit/64bit games. There the problems just begin. What if someone is missing a 
library and so on.... that NOT trivial.

So at first starting with a limited set of games is a must. Emulation or WINE 
based games may follow, when the system evolves a little bit. Same is for low 
priority things like screensaver or gamepad configuration problems. They can be 
solved - for sure - by just a little code that one still has to implement. 
There are other programs like vlc which can prevent screensaver modes when 
watching a film.

Sharing a game database would be a great idea, for I have not the time to do 
all on my own. Help is appreciated. Maybe you could start with a list of games 
(a spreadsheat would be ok atm) that are in the repositories. I think about a 
nice scheme for it in the next days. We have to think about things like title, 
homepage, detailed text, category and so on.

Ah well, here is my proof of concept, that my server/client side solution 
works. Don't say anything layout, screendesign related, 'cause I work on 
something nice, this what you can see here is just some placeholder layout.
http://www.christian-ahmer.de/pastebin/rockix_test.ogv

The black window that you can see after starting nexuiz is just a bug in gtk-
recordmydesktop as it doesn't record fullscreen opengl games correctly.

An integrated irc via embedded webservice is just an idea and may come or not.
Depends of if we like it in the end.

greetings,
Christian

Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 17:22:05 schrieb Mathieu Comandon:
> b4rd3 wrote:
> > Hi there, Ubuntu Gaming Team.
> >
> > Well, I have the idea to write a gaming frontend ( I already have a
> > proof of concept - it works).
>
> Hi Barde,
>
> I can see that great minds think alike, I do have a similar project (
> http://lutris.net , the website is not very interesting right now )
> going which might have  many goals in common with yours.
> I also had the idea of a fullscreen frontend but i soon realized that it
> wasn't on my priority list for the project, you can still have a look of
> the result I'd want to get here :
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26jrYKW0nhQ (Note : I did not write the
> coverflow stuff , I got it here :
> http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users/web/
> <http://http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users/web/>CoverFlow.tar.gz )
>
> As for now my main goal is to have a powerful base to support every
> single game playable on GNU/Linux. This means Open Source games,sure,
> but mainly  every other game from other platforms that Linux can handle
> (this means NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega
> Dreamcast, Windows games, Arcade games, Amiga, Atari ST, and so on ...)
> . When you think about it, GNU/Linux can run more than 90% of every
> video game ever created.
> My goal is to provide an enjoyable way to run all of theses games,
> provide a single place where you configure your joypad, run every game
> fullscreen, get rid of that stupid bug that activates the screensaver
> when using the joypad.
> I shall also provide a way to backup game configuration and saves on a
> web server (think Steam Cloud but better).
>
> I also had some work done on this project, right now i can type lutris
> left4dead and I'll play Left4Dead with Cedega, or type lutris
> supermetroid and zsnes will run Super Metroid.
>
> As for the front end, like I said earlier that will come in the later
> stages of development, but reading from your messages I'd hate to have
> to end my user session to start another environment. You are more than
> welcome to prove me wrong but I doubt you'd gain anything from this
> 'gaming mode' (I once had a bash script called gaming_mode and one day I
> deleted it, telling  to myself "OK, this is just useless" ). I don't
> even care about turning Compiz off as the performance gain isn't worth
> the effort.
> A pleasant experience of running a game is clicking on an icon, or
> calling it with Gnome-Do or with a nice and quick frontend and have your
> game without any questions asked. No matter if  I have Firefox or
> Eclipse  running , I might want to return to my code after a quick play.
>
> Anyway, I'm pretty sure we share the same goals so i would be OK with
> merging the two projects together, or if the two projects go on separate
> roads we should at least share the game database.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mathieu Comandon
>
>
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