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Well to begin with I really like the ideas iv seen on this forum about reorganizing the k menu. Even the discussions on whether there needs to be a new name and applications renamed so that there is no gimmicky like effect of all applications starting with K. I love the idea of making KDE more streamlined and easy to use. I love everything I have read about KDE 4 so far. One thing I haven't seen mentioned before is game management under KDE. Although there are not allot of native Linux commercial games out there at the moment, I don't see this as a good reason to neglect revolutionizing the KDE Game Management from the rest of the revolution going on in KDE4. Right so, lets begin our little question and answer on Game Management under kde and how its important;
Q(1)Why do we need to revolutionize Game Management under KDE?
A(1) Well thats very simple. We cannot expect games publishers and gamers to move to an operating system which doesn't take gaming seriously. The amount of users that Linux could gain if the gaming market were catered for is enormous.
Making Game management for KDE is crucial in that aspect.
Q(2) How do we improve game management under KDE4?
A(2) Well that question is hard to explain when there is no default Kmenu for KDE 4 yet. Although hard not impossible. When the user enters the K-menu they should feel simplicity yet have great control. I am not going to go in debt on how this can be achieved because its been done a hundred times over (common applications, search bar, frequently used applications, application tree, places<my computer, documents,music,pictures,e-books,video.>) What should be done for the games directory in the K-menu is this, on click of the games directory a games list should tree from it. This is where all games are stored(wine/Linux native/Linux native commercial). the list should look like this, game cover on the left or center and game title on the right or below the cover. When you select a game (one left click of mouse) you should get extra info on the game (publisher,developer,year made, genre,etc). All this information could be taken from a KDE-Games-Database. An online repository of game tags if you will. When you double click on the game you should execute the game normally, or just as usual. When you middle click on the game you should get info on Game Komunication, in simpler terms it shows you all the people in your friends list of your favorite instant messenger or voip app whome are playing the game online at that time. when you right click on the friend you should be able to have the choice to talk to them or video chat to them while their playing, or just jumping straight into the game with them. The other options in the komunication tree is to download a new level, patch or mod, or host or join a server for online play. There should be a link to walk troughs, cheats .etc for the game of choice. when you right click a game in the games tree you should see all the levels you have beaten on and what difficulty you have beaten them on. The KDE-Games-Database should keep a log of all the online games you have played and how many deaths,kills,etc you have .
Q(3)So that is the K-Menu "roughly" explained, What else can we possible revolutionize about gaming on KDE4?
A(3) Well thats a very good question , bet you didn't think there could be much more but there is, Any possibility of wine becoming part of the KDE framework, How about a simple installer that recognizes that a game is of windows .exe origin and installs the game accordingly to the new KDE 4 Game Management, How about the same installer for installing native/native commercial games onto the Linux system. As in KDE need an installer that is intelligent, that knows what distro of Linux you are using and can install .debian,.rpm basically every installable format onto any distro. One that lets you install a program using a .rpm installation format on kubuntu for instance. One that figures out the type of file you want to install, what system you are using and how to install it all by itself.
Hmmmmmm...... I think Il have to leave this feature suggestion at this at the moment, hopefully I can add to it a a later date. One last thing before I go, I am well aware of some peoples views on PC gaming, how they feel it is dying how console gaming will be the future. How they want to use this as an excuse to not innovate in this part of Linux. I have news for those people, pc gaming will never die. Console gaming has been more success full over the last couple of years due to inovation in the gaming field of the console market. Innovation needs to take place within pc gaming for it to survive. It would be sad if i saw the years role by to see the Linux community neglecting this as if it is a lost cause. Right so, hopefully that stopped the countless useless posts i might get on people trying to say they can see into the future and that pc gaming is already dying. And console gaming will prevail sad god i hate those kind of posts.

here is a revised version of the idea of revising game management. The revised Idea was posted on Ubuntu forums so ignore all references to Ubuntu if you will. Here it is :

I love Ubuntu , but it needs better management of games. It needs a more unified and intelligent game management system. I will start this post by saying that I am fully aware this is down to gnome and KDE. But I thought it would be good to see what the gamers in Ubuntu think of the suggestion.
First things first, I think this post mostly applies to kubuntu as i have made this suggestion fore KDE4 and cant really see it working on a gnome system successfully. Basically with KDE4 they are totally revolutionizing the KDE user interface. Just type KDE 4 into Google cause I just want to delve into this topic of games management under kde4 or games management under Kubuntu. Well when the K menu is redesigned I think that games management should come into the equation. The k menu, when you click on games you should get your subdirectory just as usual. Except the subdirectory should be redesigned. You basically see a list of game covers. not icons. you also see the name of the game below the game cover. When you click on the game cover more info slides down below it. Now you see, Title,Publisher,Developer,Year Released, Version, rating, based on the a servers total rating, will talk about this later. On the Game cover there should be two small circular icon with two stick figures holding hands on one. This depicts your friends list, if glowing red none are playing this game, if glowing green there is someone/a group playing the selected game. When you click on this little friends list icon you will replace the game info below the cover with a list of friends currently playing. the other icon should have an icon of the globe. When you click on this you will replace the info below the cover with three options. 1. download a patch for this game. 2. Download content for this game. 3. Play on-line.
In the K menu. The games directory should be right click able. You should have two choices when right clicked. 1. Buy A Game, 2. Games News.
The friends list which I spoke about earlier is part of KDE 4's integration of all chat mesangers into one notification, forget what they called it but your friends list would consist of friends on Skype , msn, aol, all of em.
It shouldn't end here. In the settings folder thingy there should be gaming settings. so you can change the urls of the buy a game and game news. Stop the rating system from taking the servers votes into account etc. Installing games, whether commercial native, free native, windows etc should all follow the same graphical installation method. So when you stick in a windows game it will install in the same way as a commercial game would on a step by step installer.
So what is that rating system you say and how does it work? well this is it. UbuntuGaming.net should be put up. with all the latest Gaming, News, Reviews,Interviews, and Trailers. When you login it would take note of your ip address much like a private tracker would. When you buy or download a game and decide to give it a rating, lets say out of ten stars. Then the rating is uploaded and added to others rating of that game to give an overall rating to the game. rated by the players not the site admins. for people to look at and decide whether the game is worth playing. I have a couple of more interesting new ideas for the site also which i will divulge in at a later time because I'm gonna go get some food now