gnome-games?

[Vincent]

On 21/08/07, Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Ghostvirus wrote:
> > On 8/21/07, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There were talks a while back about addign games to xubuntu.
> > >
> > > What do you think of gnome-games (they come with
> > > the dependencies on the CD)
> >
> > I don't see any point in including the games. They're not necessary to
> > have a functional desktop. If people really want them, they're in the
> > repos. Just my $0.02.
>
> I think users in general expect some games, all the other desktops
> (Windows, OSX, Ubuntu/Kubuntu...) include them.
>
> However, I think it could be enough to have a menu entry which points
> to an (X)Ubuntu Wiki page telling how to install games and recommends some
> good ones (preferably with links to screenshots etc).
>
> Gnome-games are nice because they are translated.  Unfortunately most of
> the nicer and lightweight games aren't[1], which makes them less suitable
> for non-english speaking users.  I guess this kind of pages that are
> linked
> to from the installation should have also translated versions of the
> pages,
> but that's something that could be done later and by the main Ubuntu
> project?


I'm in favour. As said, users have come to expect them, it doesn't do much
harm IMO and the translation issue is important indeed.

        - Eero
>
> [1] for example the simple ones in ace-of-penguins package.
>
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Vincent
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