[Blueprint remove-ace-of-penguins] Remove ace-of-penguins (broken game suite)

Julien Lavergne julien.lavergne at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 19:43:14 UTC 2013


Blueprint changed by Julien Lavergne:

Whiteboard changed:
  [amjjawad] I have set the priority to this suggestion as Medium because
  it has been discussed long time ago and no action has been taken as of
  now.
  
  [Baron] Good replacements might be
  Lincity, a simcity clone. 1435kb install with no new depends.
  and/or
  Cavez of Phear, a bolder's dash clone. It is an ASCII game, and would need to create a new .desktop file to launch it in a term. 108kb install with no new depends.
  
  [hardboot] A rather extreme option would be OpenTTD, which many consider a AAA quality simulator, unfortunately it's several MB in size, still worlds smaller than micropolis(sim city classic).
  There's a couple small breakout clones and piles of small puzzles to pick from, chess is another option.
  Minesweeper is so simple a clone could be thrown together, strangely most have monster deps, or are dead.
  sopwith, pacman, pong, breakout, xinv, xscorch are some smallish options, xbomb/xdemineur are the only small minesweeper I know of.
  I guess it boils down to what type of game people want.
  
  [amjjawad] BIG +1
  
  [carsten-bjoerklund] Totally agree :-)
  
  [Andrew Hamming] Opened Pengiuns once the entire time i've used Lubuntu,
  looked at it and thought wow, why is this in here.  +1
  
  [vanyok] +1. I don't know anyone who ever played these penguins' cards. Let's have just a couple of games (like Xubuntu does) just in case somebody needs them for spare time and to show the ability to play in Lubuntu.
  I would have something like Minesweeper and Pacman.
  Nevertheless I might raise a question: what's the real purpose to have those games in Lubuntu? Normally if somebody is a gamer he/she will install favourite games. If somebody uses OS for work - games are normally not needed. Also online (flash) games are more popular now. That's why I'm asking - to clarify the real need.
  
  [David Yentzen] (+1) remove all games form default install.  Why is the
  game suite still in by default?
+ 
+ [gilir] We need good proposals to replace them : not heavyweight, no 3D,
+ no Java, easy to undersand and to play (possibly some classic games),
+ available in the repository (forking is not an option). They are here
+ because every OS have a couple of simple games, just in case you have
+ some free time to time kill.

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Remove ace-of-penguins (broken game suite)
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