Re: Purpose: how to provide a better user experience running a game
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/18/2010 10:29 PM, Devid Antonio Filoni wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> yesterday, working on projectfootball package, I found a fall in user
>> experience. A lot of games require, as you already know, 3D
>> accelleration, if it is not available they just don't start. Well,
>> suppose I'm a new user, how can I know why that game is not working?
>> (an user might think: "Linux s**ks, games don't work!"
>> while: "No! Linux is cool, hardware s**ks)
>> Sometimes a message is showed in the terminal, but users run
>> applications using desktop files, so it is pretty useless.
>> This is my purpose: write a software with an UI (GTK+/Qt...) which
>> shows a popup if hardware requirements needed to play the game are not
>> reached, if they are, the game runs as usual. This new software should
>> be added as policy for games which need 3D accelleration support, we
>> will have to add a dependency on such games and change desktop file...
>> (still don't know, we have to define that)
>> What do you think? Should we work on this? Any purpose?
>>
>
> Funny,
>
> Fedora already does this :)
>
> We have this small shell script which checks of 3d accel is available,
> and install a symlink to it called <gamename>-wrapper. The .desktop file
> for the games refer to <gamename>-wrapper and the shell script will either
> pop up a dialog that no 3d accel is available, or launch <gamename>
Yes, but we should check also for other requirements and not only 3D
accelleration, that was an example. Games hw requirements can be
stored on files in /usr/share/nameofchecksoftware/data/gamename. Ok
about the symlink, it's a good idea.
> Here are the scripts in question:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/opengl-games-utils/
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
Devid
>
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