Notes on games spin

[Hans de Goede]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> I've been thinking about this, and I'm planning in writing a small 
>> bash script which uses zenity which can be used as wrapper around 3d 
>> games, this script will then first check for dri, and if that isn't 
>> available pop up a note (using zenity) saying that 3D hardware accel 
>> is needed (with explanation about no open source drivers, etc.) and 
>> then exit.
> 
> Sounds good for the short-term alteast. I don't know if we need a 
> "proper" app that uses libnotify instead. Notifications on the system 
> tray are much better than dialog boxes IMO.
> 

Not in this case, thje idea is that the (error) dialog gets shown when the user 
tries to launch a 3d game from the menu.

The idea is to create a generic wrapper script and then modify all opengl games 
to use this (atleast all in the kickstart file), I came to this idea cause we 
could add some generic applet saying that no hw 3D is available and that thus 
some games won't work properly. But how will a user know which games will be 
3D? And quiting a game when its in software rendering mode can be quite 
painfull, so by adding this wrapper and making games throw an error when there 
is no hw 3D we avoid the hard to quit when in software rendering mode problem, 
and we also solve the problem of the user needing to know which games require 
3d support, if he tries one which does require 3d support he will just get an 
error.

>> I would say that we would want to have the second live client, that 
>> would need someone to push the submitter of it, he is working on it 
>> but mostely doing upstream work. Alternatively we could suggest 
>> comaintaining to him and then one of us could get the packages through 
>> review, while he concentrates on improving it upstream.
> 
> Ok. Do you want to followup within the package review at 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233946. I got 
> interested enough to build this package locally and run it. It sort of 
> connected once and has been continuously crashing everytime after that.
> 
> The upstream binary is more recent and more stable but I haven't managed 
> to connect in that either which might be a network firewall block which 
> I don't administrate.  Upstream stills call the Linux client "alpha" so 
> I am not too sure about pushing that in.
> 

Hmm I didn't know it was _that_ bad. I'm not a second life user, I just thought 
having the client in F-8 and the games spin would be cool. In that case I 
guesswe better wait till F-9.

Regards,

Hans