Re: Menu names and placement

["Richard Hoelscher" <rah rahga com>]

Well, the fact that iagno is in that list kinda lends credence to the
notion that selecting certain games is a completely subjective exercise...
In my opinion, compared to the rest of gnome-games, the tile-flipper games
and gnect are boring. :)

I understand Fedora and Ubuntu's whims/needs for ultra-sleek-and-sexy
games menus, but I don't see how making changes upstream would be the
right way to do it. Just pull Mahjongg and Solitaire, with Neverball etc.,
into the distribution's own default games package, then offer the rest of
the gnome-games as an optional enterainment pack of sorts, with it's own
menu. Whenever the next Bust-A-Move (Monkey Bubble) comes along, it's easy
to undo those changes and move the lowest game on the pole back to the
distribution's gnome-games package.

-Richard Hoelscher
http://rahga.com/svg/

Bryan Clark said:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:08 -0500, Paul Kahler wrote:
>> Suppose gnome-games were reduced to 8 games
>
> Fedora is planning [1] on trimming out some of the games installed and
> perhaps creating a "games-extra" package which would contain all those
> other games.  Basically we're looking to have one of the "best of breed"
> of each category of game.  We're also looking to include a few new games
> as well.
>
> Our list is something like this:
>
>   - Monkey Bubble
>   - Neverball
>   - Tuxracer
>   - Iagno
>   - Mahjongg
>   - Solitaire Games
>
> Callum, we'd love to work this upstream instead of always chopping up
> the gnome-games module ourselves.  I know gnome-games itself is a lot of
> work for you to maintain and it might be harder to have an extras
> package without someone else taking over the extras.  But I believe
> Ubuntu is going to be doing the same thing to trim out their games menu.
> Last I talked to Jeff about this we had a similar set of games we wanted
> to keep and push the others out to a "gamers" package.
>
> Just to note, we're coming from a "Axe of most of them" angle so that a
> large number of people will have scream bloody murder to keep any one
> game and they'll have to agree on another game that we could drop in
> order keep that one.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ Bryan
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124213
>
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