I'm interested in making this installable with Portage. I've whipped up a basic Ebuild for 0.9.1 and I could conceivably do future releases if it's useful to you.

https://gist.github.com/metafarion/c66bf43243c00132a48e3346b083ec1f

Currently Minigalaxy doesn't allow games to be removed after installation yet, so this currently requires manual work by the user

Currently directories which are created contain the game name, but with the spaces removed. This is not needed. The filter function which cleans up the name and removes the spaces from it which is currently used should not be changed, though, instead a new one could be added.

This might require a lot of changes, so make sure to check all files for usages. The main user must be gametile.py at the moment.

Please, consider supporting Flatpak and publishing Minigalaxy on Flathub.

The downloads can be cancelled too if this is easier. Currently you will see an exception, which is not supposed to happen.

OpenSUSE 15.1 with python3-gobject 3.26.1 installed.
After doing sudo zypper in minigalaxy, system give me an error:
Nothing provides python3-gobject >= 3.30, neccesary for minigalaxy-0.9.1-lp151.3.1.noarch
so I can't continue installing.

Please, any idea?

Thank you

If you change the installation path in the preferences, the previous directory is kept. This even happens if it is empty.

Is there an option to uninstall the game?

Hello,

If ~/GoG Games does not exist and if i launch for the 1st time MiniGalaxy, it crashes with these errors :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/minigalaxy", line 66, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/minigalaxy", line 60, in main
window = Window(APPLICATION_NAME)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/window.py", line 48, in init
self.sync_library()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/window.py", line 55, in sync_library
installed_games = self.__get_installed_games()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/window.py", line 187, in __get_installed_games
directories = os.listdir(self.config.get("install_dir"))
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: '/home/odelpasso/GOG Games'

I need to create manually the folder to avoid the crash.

Currently Minigalaxy is not usable while in offline mode. This could be changed to allow users to start their installed games.

Currently the refresh button can freeze the application for a couple of seconds in some circumstances.

This is handy/useful if you wish to use MangoHUD for FPS etc

See https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud#normal-usage

I would like to suggest an addition to Preferences, with a selection option to Stay Logged In.

Currently the default is to keep users logged in unless they select Logout from the menu.

This would allow users choose if they want have the client logout after closing or to stay logged in.

Thank you for your consideration.

Opening Preferences when downloading cancels the download.

Tested on Manjaro.

Currently the library doesn't really show which games are for Windows in any way, even though they are less likely to work than other games. Adding a Windows icon to Windows games would probably be a good idea.

With this the most important things is to not be in violation of any Microsoft copyright.

This may improve compatibility and performance, but it also has the potential to break games in unexpected ways, so it might be good to make it configurable.

Currently a gametile will compile a command to execute when starting a game based on which files are in the game's directory. It does already support native scummvm and dosbox installations. Wine games are already detected right now, but they aren't launched in a different way from other games.

The wine prefix is always in a directory called prefix from what I've seen. The location of the game's binary is probably best to retrieve by parsing the start.sh script.

Examples of wine packaged games being sold on GOG:

• Flatout
• Flatout 2

Using the .deb from the downloads page, I get the following error message "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python3-gi (>=3.30)" when trying to install on Mint 19.3.

Mint defaults to Python 2.7 so that is the obvious issue. However, Python 2.7 and 3.6 are both installed. I'm dis-inclined to change the default version as that will cause issues with system scripts (and much bigger headaches). I have no problem switching distros (or waiting for future releases; this is a beta after all). However, this issue will probably affect others and (I'm hoping) isn't too hard to fix or post a work-around for.

Also, Ubuntu 18.04 should have the same problem (but I haven't tested) since Mint's python setup is to the best of my understanding due to the Ubuntu base.

PS -- really appreciate all the effort that has gone into this project so far!

When you install a game via the installer script you can create .desktop files on desktop and for the application menu. It would be nice to have this choice too, or add desktop files afterwards via a button.

The thread which downloads and installs games in gametile.py calls multiple Gtk functions directly, but these function aren't thread safe. This causes multiple unpredictable and impossible to debug crashes.

I found some documentation on how to deal with it here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject/Threading

The GOG installers that you download off their website omit certain characters when creating the installation folder. The characters I have found that have been omitted are : and -. There are quite possibly more characters but I don't have any examples in my library. As these characters don't exist in the folder but do in the game title they aren't detected by Minigalaxy on startup.

This is annoying as it generates emails. Either fix or remove them.

Please consider to add GoG Cloud saves support.

Thanks

Currently the unzip command is used to extract the installers, but it hasn't been added to the dependencies.

It might be worth looping into the zipfile library which comes with python. The reason I wasn't using that was that it doesn't preserve permissions, but I have found a workaround for that.

Hello,
I'm trying to package minigalaxy for Solus. Everything builds and installs without issue, however when trying to download a game it skips to installing and hangs. When running through the terminal I get this after clicking the download button, regardless of the game.

hawkeye@desktopsolus ~/b/s/minigalaxy (master)> minigalaxy
Exception in thread Thread-7:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 870, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/gametile.py", line 132, in __download_file
    self.__install_game()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/gametile.py", line 151, in __install_game
    with zipfile.ZipFile(installer_path) as archive:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1258, in __init__
    self._RealGetContents()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1325, in _RealGetContents
    raise BadZipFile("File is not a zip file")
zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

Currently it is very hard to track which games are installing. This could be a way to make them a little bit more visible.

Steam marks games which are being downloaded as installed as well in your library.

Not sure what I did wrong here, I launched it and accidentally clicked download on something (needs a confirmation!). Then I think I clicked it again and then the app just quit. Now it won't launch and all it tells me in terminal is:

[liam@liam-manjaro ~]$ minigalaxy
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

GOG distributes a great many games that run within DOSBox, ScummVM, etc, and although these tools are cross-platform, GOG packages them only for Windows. As such they are not downloadable via Minigalaxy even though they can run on Linux.

I propose a framework to bring these Windows-only packages the last mile; make them available for download in Minigalaxy and then playable through some kind of scripted install using innoextract and the necessary interpreter/emulator. These scripts would likely need to be tuned to each game, so perhaps they could even be user-contributed.

So far I've tested Riven and Starship Titanic (ScummVM), and Myst 3 (ResidualVM), and their GOG-downloaded packages have all required very minimal reconfiguration to work in Linux. I'd be happy to do any legwork that is needed to "port" these processes to Minigalaxy.

Currently Minigalaxy doesn't support updating games yet

The German translation is still missing a few strings. I can do this, but someone else is welcome to as well.

A close button which doesn't work shows up in the About screen in Xfce. This button doesn't exist on Gnome.

This was reported to be the case in Manjaro and Debian Buster.

This could be a simple settings menu item, but it should make sure that a language can actually be used before letting the user pick it. It is not possible to load a translation for a locale which isn't installed.

Currently there is almost no difference in the library view between games which are installed and games which are not.

Some testing with different methods and input is needed on how this could be achieved.

Some options could be:

• Changing the color of the button
• Darkening the images of games which aren't installed
• Add different filters

The Minigalaxy website uses github pages to build from the README. The code blocks which contains the command line instructions for installation and links look weird on it, though.

Website: https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/

This is because the game id is not set and FTL has no start.sh file.

If new entries are made in the configuration file, they aren't loaded it seems. This needs more investigation. See:

Reported in #79

Perhaps there should be a waiting mechanism? Not sure how that would work, probably with a queue. From a UI perspective, that may just be bad, though.

I suggest you to use libhandy so that your app can fit also in small screens

How can I translate this app?

Only 16 games out of 27 show up in minigalaxy. Any way to provide logs or something to help you guys to diagnostic the problem?

Currently downloads are cancelled when closing Minigalaxy.

The project appears to be GPL, the deb file states the project is proprietary. I think the problem is spacing on the copyright file.

ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#header-paragraph

The Hotline Miami Comics which are available on GOG for free show up in the library in Minigalaxy. They can't be installed.

I believe it should not be shown at all, since it is not a game.

It can be found here: https://www.gog.com/game/hotline_miami_2_wrong_number_digital_comics

Currently if you start downloading a game, there isn't much you can do to cancel it. Closing the applications is the only way to do it currently.

Hello,

with minigalaxy-0.9.2-1.fc31.noarch I get

Exception in thread Thread-15:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/threading.py", line 870, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/gametile.py", line 132, in __download_file
    self.__install_game()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/minigalaxy/window/gametile.py", line 151, in __install_game
    with zipfile.ZipFile(installer_path) as archive:
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1258, in __init__
    self._RealGetContents()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1325, in _RealGetContents
    raise BadZipFile("File is not a zip file")
zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

when I try to install any game.

If I look in /.cache/minigalaxy/download/, I find 3 files name ending in .sh that are actually html files of a server complaining We have temporarily blocked your access to our website…

Please add handling of the fact that the server may not return a shell script.

cat Akalabeth\:\ World\ of\ Doom.sh

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <title>GOG.com</title>
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        <link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600,700" rel="stylesheet">

        <!-- TODO: add favicons -->

    	<style type="text/css">
			html,
			body { height:100%; }
			body { margin:0; padding:0; 
				background-color:#ccc;
				background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #bdbdbd, #ccc);
				background-image:-o-linear-gradient(top, #bdbdbd, #ccc);
				background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient(top, #BDBDBD, #ccc);
				background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom, #BDBDBD, #ccc);
				background-size:100% 486px; background-position:50% 0; background-repeat:repeat-x;
				color:#262626;
				font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; 
			}
				.wrapper { display:table; 
					max-width:50em; height:100%; padding:0 5%; margin:0 auto;
				}
					.content { display:table-cell; 
						vertical-align:middle; 
					}
						p { margin-top:1em; font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.5; text-align:justify; }
						h1 { font-weight:300; font-size:2em; }
    	</style>
    </head>
    <body>
		<div class="wrapper">
			<div class="content">
				<p>
					We have temporarily blocked your access to our website because You have exceeded number of simultaneous connections. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
				</p>
				<p>
					If you see this message very often, please contact our Support Team immediately after you are able to access GOG.com normally.
				</p>
			</div>
		</div>
    </body>
</html>

should I look closer at one of these files?

pcfe@t7910 minigalaxy $ tree
.
├── download
│   ├── Akalabeth: World of Doom.sh
│   ├── Beneath a Steel Sky.sh
│   └── Overload - Playable Teaser.sh
├── extract
│   ├── 1207658695
│   ├── 1207666073
│   └── 1245077743
├── thumbnails
│   ├── 1129701343.jpg
│   ├── 1207658694.jpg
│   ├── 1207658695.jpg
│   ├── 1207659142.jpg
│   ├── 1207659221.jpg
│   ├── 1207659693.jpg
│   ├── 1207666073.jpg
│   ├── 1245077743.jpg
│   ├── 1449569170.jpg
│   ├── 1748855533.jpg
│   ├── 2016844216.jpg
│   └── 2020648154.jpg
└── WebKitCache
    └── Version 14
        ├── Blobs
        │   ├── 01FD4E285D0B6802D137D45ED11C951B68CE1FD8
        │   ├── 6E7CD8B5BEF84B6100DAA3D5152726D640738BB6
        │   ├── D89AAB7C009CC2215D463726649DD32A167C28AF
        │   ├── DA9A3A8E7A1A81D8CDF0F3233967BD992E9DD499
        │   └── F8325BC7B20A1195CB092999FB0E0A94C8A9262B
        ├── Records
        │   └── 30DC4B5F0E11084A963B8ED5D0152982B6298948
        │       ├── Resource
        │       │   ├── 04D071FB65534B4662AD555D298808059D472AF6
        │       │   ├── 04D071FB65534B4662AD555D298808059D472AF6-blob
        │       │   ├── 05E5FEED03910F671C6E6E9002A5935CEF1C8968
        │       │   ├── 05E5FEED03910F671C6E6E9002A5935CEF1C8968-blob
        │       │   ├── 09702261DC90B98C2CBB9E3240B5BB2E26969AA5
        │       │   ├── 09702261DC90B98C2CBB9E3240B5BB2E26969AA5-blob
        │       │   ├── 0FE3BC93D57490060C2CB6ECCE2503138E2502D6
        │       │   ├── 0FE3BC93D57490060C2CB6ECCE2503138E2502D6-blob
        │       │   ├── 4327F1EB711A77CDA4D038793AB12B35BCD7BC98
        │       │   ├── 4EE03997423BF0AFA5F686CAB2DBD0E6C3C5733C
        │       │   ├── 4EE03997423BF0AFA5F686CAB2DBD0E6C3C5733C-blob
        │       │   ├── 50108A1B18143539A96F849CE2A7FE070CCA3B99
        │       │   ├── 51FDD24E2A8A5F3903027FE82E0CD67DC4EC97DC
        │       │   └── 985AC8456AE13B16AF65FDE7E1D7D0F5B0CD1C5D
        │       └── SubResources
        │           └── 9A09B86CD933CE9304670C83DC4732604B02ACB6
        └── salt

13 directories, 36 files
pcfe@t7910 minigalaxy $ 

Currently Minigalaxy downloads are cancelled when closing the application. The user should be informed about this if this is not changed.

Since distribution packages can sometimes lag behind, it would be useful if minigalaxy were installable through pip, so we could manually update as soon as possible.

I tried this when cloning the repo, by doing pip install ., but when doing that, and running minigalaxy, I get the error: gi.repository.GLib.Error: g-io-error-quark: Error opening file /usr/share/minigalaxy/ui/login.ui: No such file or directory (1)

It seems the files were actually installed under /usr/local/share rather than /usr/share. It may be that simply fixing the paths would resolve this issue.

Another one for the pile of feature requests: Additional details on each game accessible via the game list interface. Right now the UI is pretty sparse; each game has a title image and a Download/Play button and that's basically it. It would be helpful to have actual text titles (as the images are not always super-legible), as well as game descriptions, ratings, etc. Perhaps that much detail warrants a "Details" view for each game to keep the UI from getting too cluttered. If this is a ton of work to implement, even a link to each game's page at GOG.com would be useful. After all, we game hoarders don't necessarily remember what every game in our library is about.

FTL doesn't have the expected start.sh script for starting it, which makes Minigalaxy unable to launch it or even see that it is installed.