Review of featured applications

[Rick Spencer]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:02 +0100, Didier Roche wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Robert Ancell
> <robert.ancell at canonical.com> wrote:

> >
> > I wanted to add one IDE to the list but it was very hard to choose one.  It
> > seemed the best candidates were monodevelop, geany, eclipse and anjuta
> > (omitting Eclipse because it is so big and as a "well known IDE" people
> > shouldn't have trouble finding it anyway).  I don't use an IDE so I don't
> > feel qualified to make a recommendation.  The important factors seemed to
> > be:
> >
> > Ability to work with popular languages
> > Fast and reliable
> > Access to debugging tools
> 
> The issue for anjuta is the lack of real support for python, which is
> one of the favorite language we advise in Ubuntu. geany maybe?
> 
I propose we don't include an IDE. I don't think any fit the criteria
really well.

> >
> > I also wanted to pick one FPS but they all seemed difficult to use.  The
> > problems seemed to be similar:
> >
> > Huge downloads
> > Opening and choosing first menu (e.g. "single player") often didn't work,
> > there were no bots
> > Very slow load times
> 
> Right, from my research (1 year and half ago), we don't have any FPS
> with bots by default. We should download some bots and install them
> manually we don't find the Featured goal. There are a lot of very good
> multiplayer FPS (even if I'm not fan of those games), so, if we want
> to include one of them, I'll go for Nexuiz or Tremulous.
What about Saurbraten? That seems to work well and has a good single
player mode. Though perhaps the download is a bit large?

Cheers, Rick