Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 05:51:09PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: Please add your 0.02€ to the bin, and tell us whether you like the idea (and if so, which games you'd love to see). If we had a livecd-based installer, the user could play a regular game at the same time as the installer process ran,

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-28 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:58:04PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: I haven't looked at the patent, so I have no idea how applicable it is. Also, Debian's policy with respect to software patents and trade marks is that we only care about them if they are actively enforced, AFAIK. I don't know

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-27 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:54:24AM +, Sam Morris wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:51:09 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: So now I'd like to ask you, what you think about the idea to add some (small) games, so users can relax while D-I is fetching packages etc. I thought it was a great idea, but

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-20 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:06:51 +0200 Frans Pop wrote: - games shall only be loaded as additional components and only if the system has sufficient memory Sure - games should only be loaded/offered if the D-I user interface supports them From reading your old ideas in the wiki, it seems to

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
elen...@planet.nl wrote: Another option could be to run the game on a separate VT. This should be easy as long as the game is modified to pause itself when it receives e.g. SIGUSR1. The d-i code then could pause the game and use something like chvt to switch back to the main VT. -- ciao, Marco

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-13 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:53:29AM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: during the Extremadura meeting about g-i, we talked about the possibility of having the chante to play games during an installation. There are still some evidence of this in the wiki [1] I still have a Tetris cdebconf plugin for the

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-13 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 12:39 Mon 13 Apr , Jérémy Bobbio wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:53:29AM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: during the Extremadura meeting about g-i, we talked about the possibility of having the chante to play games during an installation. There are still some evidence of this in the wiki

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 13 April 2009, Xavier Oswald wrote: I don't want to work if the idea of adding game will not be accepted by the team. I don't think there are any objections in principle, but IMO there should be a few conditions: - games shall only be loaded as additional components and only if the

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-13 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 21:06 Mon 13 Apr , Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009, Xavier Oswald wrote: I don't want to work if the idea of adding game will not be accepted by the team. I don't think there are any objections in principle, but IMO there should be a few conditions: - games shall only be

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-12 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, during the Extremadura meeting about g-i, we talked about the possibility of having the chante to play games during an installation. There are still some evidence of this in the wiki [1] regards, Davide [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo#Games -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-12 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:51:09 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: Dear debian-boot, some time ago I was cleaning the gnujump package and noticed some commented notes about udeb creation in the packaging, asking the main-maintainer, he said that this was an idea to give users the possibility to play

How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-11 Thread Evgeni Golov
Dear debian-boot, some time ago I was cleaning the gnujump package and noticed some commented notes about udeb creation in the packaging, asking the main-maintainer, he said that this was an idea to give users the possibility to play while waiting for D-I, but was never finished. So now I'd like

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: some time ago I was cleaning the gnujump package and noticed some commented notes about udeb creation in the packaging, asking the main-maintainer, he said that this was an idea to give users the possibility to play while waiting for D-I,