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Lately I have been messing around with a KDE program called "Kommander".  Kommander is what you would call a "GUI maker for scripts".  Essentially, I can take a advanced shell script and make a GUI for it in very little time (Take that Visual Basic! HA!).

Well after playing around with it, recreating simple dialogs and other functions, I got to thinking, "What do I really NEED?  or WHat am I missing?"  Well, to tell the truth, I am missing alot; but I needed something simple to do.

Enter the Jedi Academy Launcher for Linux!!!
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/41f335e6_bf … CBfZ_mXykw

Before, I had to go to a terminal shell, and cd to the directory where JA is installed; THEN go "cedega ./jamp.exe" to get it to run.  Then later I created simple bash scripts that would automatically mount my JA CD and run it.  And THEN, I created desktop icons for the game.  However, JA has TWO executables:  single player and multiplayer.  Thats one icon too many!

Now, I'm not sure about Macintosh, but on Windows there is a "Launcher" similar to this that has links for the usual "SP, MP, troubleshooting, quit".  So I decided to write my own.

This is V2 of the launcher.  V1 was a much simplier program and wasn't that good looking.

I know this is a Mac-centric board and I'm sure this program wouldn't run on one; but its Show-off time!  I feel SO proud! hehe

Note:
The "Map Editing" thing doesn't work.  I am still trying to get Linux-Radiant to work on JA maps.  So far, If I want to play with radiant for JA, its a reboot for me.  However I am |-----| this close to getting it to work.

"Movie Battles" does nothing right now.  I used to have it installed, but I don't now.  It's simply a placeholder for the time being.

For all those out there that would want this app:  This isn't ready for distrubution yet.  The scripts that power the GUI are "Mishura-eccentric" since they are highly customized and don't rely on how others would have things set up.  I may try to decentralize the scripting so that it could be "with little modding" work on other KDE/unix desktops, but only if there is a demand.  If anyone wants to see the source, its a XML file and I'll gladly give it to anyone that wants it.