GNOME Games 3.18: A New App To Organize Your Linux Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Games 3.18: A New App To Organize Your Linux Games

There's a new GNOME application called Games -- not to be confused with the few GNOME games out there like Sudoku and Solitaire. GNOME Games is not a game itself but intended as a tool for managing your game library...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Games-3.18

[DanL]

They could have chosen a different name. "Gnome Games" takes one back to the days when sudoku, aisleriot. etc. were all grouped into one package.

[shawnsterp]

When I last used windows, it was vista. They had something like this at the time. I never really used it then, either, but I can see why it would be useful in that environment because their menu was in alphabetical order of the software developer name (or a mix of that and the actual software name. Either way, it was crazy). So, since gnome has gone away from a normal linux menu, perhaps it would be useful in that environment?

I don't know. I don't use Gnome, and the whole menu thing is one of the main reasons why. I know that I can add extensions, but I am always leary of that. Understand, I am not flaming Gnome. I am glad it exists, but it isn't what I prefer. If you add a regular menu, I find it hard to see how this could be useful, unless you had the ability to add tags (RTS, FPS, etc) to the games.

[Apopas]

I'm a three days old Gnome user and I understood one thing... Menus suck! Long live the superkey!
Gnome Games can be useful indeed.

[shawnsterp]

I'm a three days old Gnome user and I understood one thing... Menus suck! Long live the superkey!
Gnome Games can be useful indeed.

You know you can use both, in any environment, right?

[Creak]

You know you can use both, in any environment, right?

I don't know about KDE, but I also find the superkey very useful in GNOME. The idea is not just to pop up a menu with a list of applications, in GNOME you just hit superkey and start typing whatever you want and the results are seamless. It's a very nice piece of UX they made here.

[justmy2cents]

Gnome Games can be useful indeed.

indeed, especially if they incorporate some kind of user tweaking per game that is managed from central repository.

[shawnsterp]

I don't know about KDE, but I also find the superkey very useful in GNOME. The idea is not just to pop up a menu with a list of applications, in GNOME you just hit superkey and start typing whatever you want and the results are seamless. It's a very nice piece of UX they made here.

Right. I use kde, and I have super+space set up for krunner, which is what you are talking about. No menu, it just gives you results from what you type. Admittedly, I do not remember the exact behavior of what happens in gnome, but I have a guess. As is typical, the results in kde CAN give you a whole lot of stuff, not just the application. You can of course configure this, but I am guessing that gnome has it simplified by default. Pluses and minuses to both approaches.

In any event, I will try it out next time I am in a gnome environment.

[Apopas]

You know you can use both, in any environment, right?

I know only one thing, I'm never gonna use menus and launchers ever again. I'm even trying to figure how I can get rid of Gnome's default dock. Totally useless.

[nitroflow]

When I last used windows, it was vista. They had something like this at the time. I never really used it then, either, but I can see why it would be useful in that environment because their menu was in alphabetical order of the software developer name (or a mix of that and the actual software name. Either way, it was crazy). So, since gnome has gone away from a normal linux menu, perhaps it would be useful in that environment?

I don't know. I don't use Gnome, and the whole menu thing is one of the main reasons why. I know that I can add extensions, but I am always leary of that. Understand, I am not flaming Gnome. I am glad it exists, but it isn't what I prefer. If you add a regular menu, I find it hard to see how this could be useful, unless you had the ability to add tags (RTS, FPS, etc) to the games.

If you are a gamer you'll have a sizeable amount of games installed and the last thing you'd want is all all those games cluttering the applications menu. When you have hundreds of games a menu is really impractical, any kind of menu, as you would end up with a ginormous monstrosity or a nested mess of categories. That's one of the reasons I don't create menu shortcuts when I install a steam game.