Cleaning up games.xml

Stephanie Mardell stephmardell at mac.com
Sat Sep 13 23:19:03 UTC 2008


I agree. 

Updating the section, e.g. removing all the detail on games outside the
popular section, including detail on installing games and running
Windows games, focuses the Games section on what users are most likely
to want to do.

Stephanie

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 00:09 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> I agree with you here Phil, this was nominated for improvement two cycles
> ago and none of us has really thought of a way to improve it.
> 
> Perhaps it should just go. Nick has a good point, perhaps redirecting to how
> to install software would be more productive than a list of games.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dougie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-doc-
> > bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Phil Bull
> > Sent: 13 September 2008 23:43
> > To: Nick Ellery
> > Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: Cleaning up games.xml
> > 
> > Hi Nick,
> > 
> > On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 15:32 -0700, Nick Ellery wrote:
> > > Looking through the Games section, I noticed that every section in
> > > 'games-ubuntu-popular' has instructions on how to install and run the
> > > game.  It's very repetitive, and ultimately useless.  Furthermore, the
> > > other section's do not follow this format.  This could be solved by
> > > simply adding instructions on the introductory section, directing to
> > > 'add-applications'.  Thoughts?
> > 
> > Do we even need a games section? I'm not sure what documentation games
> > need, other than instructions on getting awkward unpackaged ones to run.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Phil
> > 
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