games-menus feedback wanted

[Michael Thomas]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Thomas wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> HI all,
>>>
>>> I've been working hard on getting game submenus realised, as atleast 
>>> 2 people here wanted them (Tibbs and Wart), and I must say that I'm a 
>>> bit disappointed about the lack of feedback.
>>>
>>> So please do a:
>>> rpm -ivh 
>>> http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/games-menus-0.2-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
>>>
>>> Click on your menu goto games and enjoy. Also we should start fixing 
>>> our packages for games which show up in a strange place and start 
>>> filing bugs against other peoples packages, again for more info on 
>>> how to properly use the Categories field see:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-games-list/2007-March/msg00003.html 
>>>
>>
>> I've actually been using this for the past week on two separate 
>> machines.  It's _greatly_ improved the usability of the Games menu, 
>> though I had to update a few of my packages to get them located in the 
>> right category.  :)
>>
> 
> Good to hear!
> 
>> I'm left with two that I'm not sure how to categorize:
>>
>> neverball:  This is a 'roll the ball around a maze and avoid the 
>> traps' type of game.  it's not really a board game, so maybe 'logic & 
>> puzzles' would be the best fit?
>>
> 
> Yes good question, I need to fix trackballs too, I gess logic and 
> puzzles is the best choice, shall we put both of them (trackballs and 
> neverball) there?

That would work for me.  I'm updating neverball now.

>> xpilot:  it's like a multiplayer version of asteroids, on steroids.  
>> It has the visual appearance of an arcade game, but much more 
>> complicated gameplay.
>>
> 
> Arcade is very crowded, so I would say action. My rule kinda is:
> If it isn't a straight forward clone of an arcade game -> action.
> 
> The mean reason for this is because for a while I've focused on 
> packaging true arcade clones and even with games-menus installed my 
> arcade menu has scroll arrows (I still need to recategorize some 
> packages, hopefully that will help).

I'll go ahead and put both Action and Arcade, to be more descriptive, 
even though this will still leave it in the Action menu.

I see that wormux is also cluttering up the ArcadeGame menu.  I'll move 
this to 'Strategy' instead.

--Wart