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Hey all. I believe I've previously posted about rofi-games (rofi plugin to launch games installed on your system) - but I've recently built rgd as an alternative.

This one is a CLI, and has less features (no custom entries, no sorting based on usage, etc.) but is much more adaptable. It can be used in scripts with any picker program in order to launch your games, or do anything else with the data parsed about each game. I've also included some scripts for popular pickers like fuzzel, dmenu, fzf, rofi and more.

It uses the same library I built for rofi-games for detecting games from different launchers installed on the system so it should work the same.

I really love rofi-games (unbiased btw) and I've been meaning to create an alternative for those who don't use rofi or don't need the extra features. Hope this fits that niche. And beyond just launching games, I'm sure someone will have a use for the data returned by rgd.

Let me know what you think and if you have any issues. Thanks!

p.s. Don't judge the image too hard - the idea was to show it can work for many different picker/finder programs but uh... that could look better, I can't lie

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I recently discovered Cartridges for Gnome. It's pretty dope. Although a little bit more graphical than rofi.

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah seems cool, just not my preference.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

😊🫡 Happy to provide an alternative, even if rejected 😆

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oo, thanks! I hadn't heard of that one. I'll give it a look!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's as simple as they come, I would say. Definitely deserving of a Gnome Circle status.

Although I don't understand why the game REMATCH fails to (automatically) apply a poster image to its tile. (Manual works fine.) There are images for it in that Steam image DB thing, so I dunno.

Otherwise working like a dream. Starts up in an instant.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I actually love this. Does it only work with steam or could it work with itch.io games?

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is there an itch.io launcher? Sorry not sure how that platform works. It works for Steam and a couple other launchers like Lutris, Bottles, Heroic and some Minecraft ones:

Edit: I see it does have a launcher, cool. I can look at adding support for it, assuming it has a reasonable way to find the games associated with it and launch them from a CLI like the other launchers do

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know that Playnite (currently Win only, but planned Linux support) has a plug-in to handle Itch, so it should be possible.

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks yeah. I'll need to look at it some more but I couldn't find a text file with any useful data - must be stored in binary somewhere

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks great! If it could scrape icons for each app, and then make (and delete) corresponding .desktop files it'd be even better!

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It provides paths for icons (and box art) for each game yeah - for those that have them anyway. Deleting .desktop files would be out of scope though.

Some of the scripts I made do use the box art if the picker supports them (like in the demo image above)