Cleaning up games.xml

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 14 08:44:30 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I agree as well. The only thing that the section really does (aside
from the Wine/Cedega stuff) was to identify games that users might be
interested in. To be honest, Add/Remove Applications does that pretty
well already.

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