Cleaning up games.xml

[Nick Ellery]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Dougie Richardson <
ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:

>  Hi Nick,
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> This looks good, only note is that (being pedantic) WINE stands for Wine Is
> Not an Emulator – someone will pick up on this, it's an API layer.
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> *From:* ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
> ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *Nick Ellery
> *Sent:* 17 September 2008 04:02
> *To:* ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Subject:* Re: Cleaning up games.xml
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> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Nick Ellery <nick.ellery at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
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>  I like Phil's suggestion of removing the games section, and porting the
> wine/cedega part to the Add Applications section.  I'll go ahead and make a
> new patch.
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Dougie Richardson <
> ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> > > I propose simply getting rid of the entire file.  Looks like the only
> > > section that is really required is the Wine/Cedega stuff.  Since it
> > > really just links directly to the Wiki, I don't believe it is
> > > necessary to keep.  Users can easily come across it if necessary.
> >
> > I agree that we should ditch the entire file, but I think that Wine is
> > important enough to users that we should offer some coverage. Perhaps
> > this would be best as a short section in "Adding and Removing Software",
> > something like "Can I install Windows programs on Ubuntu?".
>
> +1
>
> Dougie
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> Here's what I came up with.  Thoughts or suggestions?
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> Cheers,
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I definitely aggre with that.  I'll change the two cases where the term
"emulator" is used.  I'm also wondering if a link directing to the Wine
section on the forums would be useful.  It's probably more up to date than
the wiki page, and users can get support that way too.  Thoughts?

Thanks,

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