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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After chatting with a buddy of mine who games a lot, I have to agree. (I
don't normally game).

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On 05/03/2011 10:06 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote:
> I think it would be used rather extensively since most people don't want
> to put all their games in the launcher since it clutters it completely
> and I atleast don't want to have to search for them everytime I want to
> find a game. I guess it's the feeling of well organised content that
> appeals most. This would also simplify the whole process by having one
> launcher for all your games and even provide meta data.
> 
> Regular Steam users tend to (from my experience) put all their games in
> their steam launcher to make them easily accessible. On my windows
> partition I only have one icon for all my games and that is Steam. It
> makes the whole thing fast and easy. Most importantly, as I stated
> before, it would encourage gaming on Ubuntu.
> 
> I believe that instead of just dismissing the gaming situation on linux
> as "Developers will never focus on us since they don't have market here"
> and settle for having it as an office workstation we should make it as
> gamer friendly we can! Because if we get the gamers to Ubuntu, we also
> get the hardware vendors to create good drivers.
> 
> 2011/5/3 James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
>     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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