Hello Barde I skimmed through your email, so I'm sorry if i missed anything [?] I think your idea sounds pretty similiar to mirthkit, which is already in existance and FOSS. Did you check it out?
BR, *Khalid Rashid <[email protected]>* My PGP public key ID: BFC11F5F<http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xCC9370B757DE41F0A9B35496A8F1137DBFC11F5F> *"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."* -Albert Einstein On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 17:54, b4rd3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, Ubuntu Gaming Team. > > Let me shortly introduce myself. I am a 27 years old programmer and web > designer with a certain dedication to making music, playing games, > creating media and so on... of course on linux operating systems. > > I primarily used Gentoo Linux for many many years now, but some time ago > I switched to Ubuntu, 'cause it just means less trouble. At all fronts > you don't have to fight your system, many things will just work (even > out of the box). That's an important point these days. Linux evolved and > many many problems we once had were solved by time. But there's one > thing remaining: > We've got too many distributions, so especially developers of games > don't have all the resources to test their games on every platform or > distribution. We need a certain "base" - I just call it Ubuntu in these > days. > Also, there are too many games that are not really known to the public. > They are in the repositories, but just few people ever installed them. > The good ones should be better promoted. > > And now let me explain my idea as quickly as possible... > Well, I have the idea to write a gaming frontend ( I already have a > proof of concept - it works). This frontend should replace a normal > Desktop Environment when Ubuntu is in "Gaming Mode". E.g. if you're > running XFCE4 or similar, then you would start the frontend ( or make > the frontend to your standard X11 Environment if you like , just tell > GDM to start it rather than XFCE/ Gnome/ etc..). > The frontend that appears then will check the users password ( he has to > enter it once, so the system can do all things to come automatically > later on) and check if 3d acceleration is activated as well as an > internet connection is enabled. These are things that often should run > just out of the box on a modern ubuntu system. Well, the frontend will > then offer a list of game categories that you can select and then you > come to a list containing games to this category. You will see, which > games are installed at the moment and which ones are not. If the game is > not installed, the player can just click on an install button and the > system will apt-get it instantly from the ubuntu repositories (that's > where the password comes into play). The user even can purge games, if > he doesn't want to have it on his system anymore. You'll also see if the > games can be played with more than one player and so on. > > To minimalize the development times of the frontend , my idea is to use > a ruby based framework called MERB and write the whole frontend as a > local running web application,rather than program the whole interface in > a language like C / C++ or whatever. So we basically could use a lot of > media and the interface can look whatever you like to. Settings will be > stored in a portable sqlite3 database and the application itself will be > running as a local user process with the help of the mongrels server, > that itself is written in ruby/c++. > With the help of the database, we could extend the system at any time > without much bliss. The User can update the system database with the > newly available games and so it can offer more games later on. > > We could extend the application so that it stores some data of the User > like his nickname and > Further development could lead to the creation of a gaming league that > bases on oss games. We could use the system to promote new oss games > from developers who otherwise wouldn't get much attention, for example. > > So it's clear that this is a lot of work, but with the help of some of > you guys, we could get something together in the not too far away > future. Xorg X11 development makes good progress in these days and 3d > games and engines will support linux, if just a broader community would > shine on. > Maybe we could even use wine... writing scripts to automatically install > windows games from cd /dvd that otherwise would be a pain to install for > most users. There are plenty of ideas, we just have to stand up and the > penguin out. > > many greetings from austria to everyone who reads this. > > btw. i say "thank you" to every bit of comment or criticism > > regards, > barde > -- > This message was sent from Launchpad by the user > b4rd3 (https://launchpad.net/~barde667 <https://launchpad.net/%7Ebarde667> > ) > using the "Contact this team" link on the Ubuntu Gaming Team team page. > For more information see > https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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