Idea: Open Gaming Portal / Lobby-System

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, JK Wood <joshuakwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
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>> IMHO this should be handled as part of the Gnome Online Desktop effort:
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>> http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop
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> I should think this should be something desktop-agnostic.  Otherwise, you
> risk running off KDE folks, as well as those who use "alternative" window
> managers, and also Mac/Windows (assuming that we want to target those
> groups.)  I mean, most of the free/open-source games I can think of have at
> least a Windows client available, and like it or not, that's where a large
> part of your "market share" is going to come from.

Underlying APIs can be neutral. Mugshot already targets windows:

http://mugshot.org/

... And seems to be down now. Hrm.