Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages There is a tool on one of the other OSs. http://www.xfire.com/ From the site: "Xfire makes online gaming easy. See when your friends are online & what game they're playing See where they're playing and join them with one click See what games the friends of your friends are playing" I would like to have something like that on Linux. Maybe it would be nice if it will be compatible with Xfire. There is any documents or tutorial on how to write a plugin for kopete? Thanks!
A kopete plugin integrating code from the kggz client for this http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/clients/kde/ would be easy to write.
There also is a gaim-plugin with almost the full chatting functionality of xfire called gfire. http://gfire.sourceforge.net just for the sake of listing each linux source which adopted the protocol. A port for Kopete would be something very nice to see though.
What a bummer that this still hasn't been done. I know of a lot of gamers, that because of Vista are planning to move to linux, but for them the drawback is that there is no xfire client for linux, and the gaim one just plain sux. I think that having kopete log into xfire will bring in a lot of gamers to linux.
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I think we could have the plugin set up so that it launches the games on a separate display, since using alt+tab doesn't work as well in Linux as it does in Windows. This would also be good for people with multiple moniters, since they can run their games in a single moniter display. The other thing I'm thinking about is how can Kopete be displayed in-game? Can composite do this without effecting performance?
In reply to comment #6 : There's an application that can do this first item already called xgame(-gtk) (Unfortunately the only URL I have for the project is http://xgame.tlhiv.com/ , which seems to be dead, but the source is still available on the Gentoo Mirrors: http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/xgame-1.7.1.tar.gz http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/xgame-gtk2-2.0.2.tar.gz )
xgame is obsolete, try qgamex: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=48532
This thread may be interesting: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2008-January/017501.html
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