[Scummvm-devel] Launcher / wizard

[Max Horn]

Am 28.10.2010 um 14:19 schrieb LionsPhil:

> On 28/10/2010 12:51, yotam barnoy wrote:
>> Please tell us where your games can be found:
>> <Location Edit Box>
>> <"Find My Games" button> (Mass Add functionality)
> 
> As someone with 40-odd supported games, I was just about to suggest this. :)
> 
>> <"Cancel Wizard" button> <"Don't show this wizard again" checkbox>
> 
> Thinking longer-term, the ideal might be to have the desktop UI offer a 
> "insert my original CD for a game, start playing it" path. For example 
> the user puts in their King's Quest compilation disc, hits "Add CD", and 
> all the necessary game data for each game on it is copied to sensible 
> default folders, which then get added to the game list. As it is picking 
> out the relevant files manually using the wiki listing is a bit of a 
> fiddle (and games which need some kind of manipulation with the user 
> tools are a lot of one!).

I think the data file list is the source of many problems people have. If they were not so focused on getting all those files, but rather simply copied everything, then life would be so much easier. For most games, the files you can throw away are tiny compared to the data files, so except for special cases, space saving is usually not a good reason to do this.


Bye,
Max