On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:23:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > The file /usr/share/menu/uqm reads > > ?package(uqm):needs="x11" section="Games/Arcade" \ > > title="Ur-Quan Masters" command="/usr/games/uqm" > > > > I think it would be better in the section Games/Adventure, the > > action part of the game being much less important than the > > adventure part. > > I think that one of the nice things about uqm is that it switches fairly > seamlessly, and frequently, from adventure to action. You're flying > along in hyperspace minding your own business and suddenly Ur-Quan pour > out of those harmless looking star clusters ahead! Or you put down on a > planet, early in the game before your lander is beefed up, and have to > be lightning quick to avoid the hazards. Or you're getting ready for a > fight with those annoying Thraddash and suddenly realise something you > can say to them to make them back down. > > It sort of helps to tip the balance that if you ask most people about > Star Control they'll say something about a fighting game that does a > good job of balancing different very different ships against each other > in battle. And oh yeah, has an adventure game added to it in version 2.
Well maybe it is the way I play the game (I always try to avoid my crewmen getting killed.) Currently there are about 218 games in Arcade/Action and 53 in Adventure. Looking at the list, Adventure is not as well defined as it should. In all case, thanks for your answer. > > Also I do not think there is a need to hard-code the path > > to uqm in command="/usr/games/uqm". > > That's quite possibly true. I've had /usr/games hardcoded in bsdgames > and other games for ages and just followed suite here. Can you point me > at some games in /usr/games that have menu files w/o hardcoding and are > old enough for any bugs in that to have already been filed? (Assuming > that's easier than a full analysis of why the hardcoding is no longer > needed if it ever were.) The full list of menu entries as of yesterday is there: <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu/menufiles.tgz> There are 619 use of /usr/games/ out of 686 games. There are 3866 commands, 3532 of them using an absolute path. Hard-coded path in command field seems to be an entrenched historical practice. Strange stuff. Probably not worth the trouble to try to change that now. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
