Re: Some things GNOME really needs

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>2. Cool GNOME Mascot/Helper
>I don't think GNOME has a mascot. I would be cool if you could make a
>little GNOME Mascot that could fly around and give new users a tour of
>GNOME

If you could shoot it down with a rocket launcher, it would get my vote.

>4. something like directX for gnome
>I believe Elliot has made a white paper about GMF, but correct me if i am
>wrong this is just for sound. Games are cool, and games will attract
>people to linux. I would never have to use windows again if my favorite
>games weren't only on windows. Something like this should be made for
>GNOME, it might even be a good idea to contact Loki and see if they would
>be willing to help? Such a subsystem would benefit them as well (easier to
>make games, and they would have a cool GUI to go along with it). Plus,
>other programs could use it like TV viewers, and 3D accelator cards.

Check out Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) - 
http:/www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/ 

Loki already know about it, they used it for Civilisation:CTP.  :)


Michael Rogers