[sldev] Freedesktop.org "games" list (Re: Improvements for the zugaina secondlife gentoo ebuild.)

[Ricky]

It seems to me that where SL is categorized in the repo trees is one thing,
and where it is categorized in the GUI or in the filesystem, are entirely
different things.  Correct?

I note that on my laptop (Gentoo/KDE3.5) Google Earth, an app as near to SL
as any in what it is designed to be: A 3D application with a heavy web
influence.  It is currently categorized as x11-misc/googleearth in Portage,
under Internet/Google Earth in the KDE menu, and at
/usr/X11R6/bin/googleearth and /usr/bin/googleearth in the FS.  Where are
similar apps located in other distros?  It may be that this should be an
instance to follow the crowd, but the trick is finding the right crowd to
follow. :P

Ricky
aka Cron Stardust

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Gareth Nelson <gareth at litesim.com> wrote:

> Fair enough, I was under the impression it would be put under games/
> in the FreeBSD ports tree.
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Robin Cornelius
> <robin.cornelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gareth Nelson wrote:
> >> One tiny point:
> >> Do we really want to encourage SL to be classified in the games
> >> category? I don't know about everyone else, but personally I get quite
> >> irritated by the description of SL as "just a game". This
> >> misunderstanding leads to stupidities such as newbies asking for "Free
> >> L$ cheat codes" etc.
> >
> > No probably not, but as i said it my post just because its a games team
> > looking after the code in a distro that has NO bearing on were the
> > application will end up on a system or in a free desktop category.
> >
> > The games teams on the distros are dealing with a wide variety of code
> > bases of often extremely complex applications, that share a lot of
> > common factors, opengl, openal, gstreamer etc.
> >
> > Users and especially "the stupid newbies" will not even know that a
> > distro's games team had anything to do with it.
> >
> > OpenAL is managed by the games team in Debian, is that a game suddenly?
> >
> > Robin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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