Bug#487117: goplay: Display a special screenshot for textmode games

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:39PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Some games can't have a meaningful screenshot, since they're only 
> text/console based.

Why can't they have a screenshot?  They gan be executed in a window, and
the window can be grabbed by Gimp, for example.  For a game like
nethack-console, I think it is certainly meaningful to see what sort of
interface it gives you.  The same is true for a game like boggle, or
hunt the wumpus.

> Maybe we should add a special case screenshot saying "Text-mode only"
> for all games having only interface::commandline or
> interface::text-mode instead of displaying the swirl?

I think it makes sense for packages which have no interface (that is,
daemons).  For text-mode games, I'd just go for screenshots.

How to take the screenshots is a question, though.  It's probably nice
to have some uniformity in font and colours.

Thanks,
Bas

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