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Re: "Games"-application idea

 

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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