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Re: "Games"-application idea

 

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)
>>>
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