[gobolinux-users] Re: replacement for zsnes on 13?

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 7/4/06, Kristleifur Daðason <kristleifur04 at ru.is> wrote:
> On 3.7.2006, at 18:41, kenneth marken wrote:
>
> > i see in the wiki that hisham is looking for a replacement for zsnes.
> > while its 5 MB bigger, how about including the kde games package?
> >
> > zsnes never was a directly a game anyways, it a snes emulator as so
> > needs rom files of the games one wants to play.
>
> Much like the clothes you wear, the software people decide to include
> in a Linux distribution influences what people think of them.
>
> When I see zsnes included in a Linux distro, I think: "That's my kind
> of people. They must be some cool froods!" So before going back to
> lurking, I'd like to request that zsnes isn't dropped. Even though
> ROMs aren't included.

Nice to read this, thanks. Unconsciously, I think it was one of the
reasons we put it there. :) I always felt Gobo is supposed to have a
'fun' side to it. I feel somewhat negligent lately about not taking
care about these 'little touches' like I used to do early on in the
distro (Tetris in the installer, fading-scrolling graphic-boot, etc.)

-- Hisham