Re: steam games
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18:55AM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I think that it'd be more interesting to engage with Valve to know how the GNOME platform could help steam get a better product. It is an interesting ISV usecase. But GNOME platform is not Steam's target. Valve is targeting Unity, but virtue of making Ubuntu primary platform. GNOME is a niche for them. -- Tomasz TorczFuneral in the morning, IDE hacking xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.plin the afternoon and evening. - Alan Cox ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: steam games
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:12 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18:55AM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I think that it'd be more interesting to engage with Valve to know how the GNOME platform could help steam get a better product. It is an interesting ISV usecase. But GNOME platform is not Steam's target. Valve is targeting Unity, but virtue of making Ubuntu primary platform. GNOME is a niche for them. 1. I haven't contacted Valve directly it looks like they are playing nice with other distros, which are not using Unity. For example they change the license to make it distributable, remove apt-get dependency autoinstall, post non-dpkg installer, give people who explicitly stated they are not using Ubuntu early beta access etc. I haven't experienced any problems with Valve games on Gentoo (I've experienced a few problems with non-Valve games though and I needed to use Google). 2. To at least some extend Unity is based on GNOME (not WM and few other pieces). I don't think that should be argument against trying - in the worse case we simply won't receive reply. Best regards ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: steam games
- Mensaje original - De: Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.com Para: Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl CC: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Enviado: Sábado 16 de febrero de 2013 11:33 Asunto: Re: steam games On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:12 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18:55AM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I think that it'd be more interesting to engage with Valve to know how the GNOME platform could help steam get a better product. It is an interesting ISV usecase. But GNOME platform is not Steam's target. Valve is targeting Unity, but virtue of making Ubuntu primary platform. GNOME is a niche for them. 1. I haven't contacted Valve directly it looks like they are playing nice with other distros, which are not using Unity. For example they change the license to make it distributable, remove apt-get dependency autoinstall, post non-dpkg installer, give people who explicitly stated they are not using Ubuntu early beta access etc. I haven't experienced any problems with Valve games on Gentoo (I've experienced a few problems with non-Valve games though and I needed to use Google). 2. To at least some extend Unity is based on GNOME (not WM and few other pieces). If Valve games doesn't work with GNOME, gamers will switch to another environment. Valve is a big player in the game industry and it is expected new games will be released for Valve for Linux, so I think it is a good idea that Valve games (or games in general) can run in GNOME if possible. There are some predictions that say the GNU/Linux will be an important gaming platform. Just my two cents, -- Juanjo Marin ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
GNOME Calendar app and tasks
Hi! Just curious - is there a plan to integrate tasks in future Calendar app? https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Calendar Respectfully, Peteris Krisjanis. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: steam games
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18:55AM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I think that it'd be more interesting to engage with Valve to know how the GNOME platform could help steam get a better product. It is an interesting ISV usecase. But GNOME platform is not Steam's target. Valve is targeting Unity, but virtue of making Ubuntu primary platform. GNOME is a niche for them. They'll let anybody use Steam. But they are QA'ing on Ubuntu. Ubuntu of course is the 800 lb gorilla when it comes to distributions. So it makes sense that they would adopt the most popular distro with the largest user base. What I'm interested in is to make sure that we are tracking any performance or bad behaviour issues with steam games and are sensitive to it. It doesn't take a genius to know that games is the holy grail of any platform and we should be able to attract a lot more people to the platform because of it. However, they'll switch to something else if the experience is less than stellar in this age of rapid communications via social networks. What I don't want to see is some article on top 5 list of distros and GNOME based distros are panned because the performance sucks on Steam. I'm still working on getting a contact within Steam to be able to have a method of testing games. sri -- Tomasz TorczFuneral in the morning, IDE hacking xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.plin the afternoon and evening. - Alan Cox ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
