Xonotic is an addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons.
The Xonotic snap specifies the joystick interface. Could it please be auto-connected, as it’s a given most users are going to want to at least have the easy option to use it.
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+1, having a joystick auto-connect for a game makes perfect sense and removes friction for users.
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I’m not opposed to granting the auto-connection, but we now have a graphical way to connect interfaces. Why isn’t this sufficient (indeed, we always said that was what was lacking).
“We” have a graphical way to connect interfaces in very recent versions of Ubuntu. No other distro, nor 16.04 or 14.04 does though.
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Note that interface auto-connections are only useful on systems with strict confinement. Your comment suggests we must continue to process auto-connection requests until at least 2021 (when Ubuntu 16.04 LTS goes EOL) but this was not my understanding of the end goal. Who is tasked with this work? @willcooke, perhaps you can comment?
Xonotic is a game. It is a reasonable expectation that a game has a gaming specific input device automatically connected IMO.
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It’s more than 16.04. The following do not have the graphical store pre-installed, and thus have no way to graphically manipulate interfaces, and do support strict confinement:
- Kubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu MATE 18.04
- Ubuntu Budgie 18.04
- Lubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu Studio 18.04
- Ubuntu Kylin 18.04
- Xubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 17.10
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Ubuntu 16.04(corrected) - Ubuntu 14.04
- KDE Neon User
- elementary 0.4.1 Loki
- LinuxMint 18.3
- Solus
Users on those platforms have no gui for interfaces.
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I remain utterly perplexed why the home interface gets connected silently but the joystick interface doesn’t. The attack surface from the former is huge in comparison to the latter.
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Could Play and Record sounds be two separate things? Otherwise tinfoil hat people will think that snaps are recording their boring conversations about the weather.
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Also, for more FPS snaps, check the ZDOOM project, https://zdoom.org. They recently launched a crazy game that is a mix of Mario and Doom, Doom: The Golden Souls 2, more info:
- https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=47574
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/find-doom-a-bit-too-dark-doom-the-golden-souls-2-is-a-free-colourful-fps.12052/page=2
- Trailer(1min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFiuRKPftoA
I’m reading comments and people are excited about it. People love to install Doom on everything and the snap store has just one Doom related game: WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony (https://snapcraft.io/boa).
Freedom uses this engine too but is not that easy to install it (https://freedoom.github.io/download.html), I wish that a snap was available too.
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+1 to auto-connect the interface. That said, I’m disappointed the graphical work isn’t available to a wider array of systems.
3 votes for, 0 against. Granting auto-connection of the joystick interface. This is now live.
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