The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

So they decided to implement a profile system to a store that never had one before and make everything public by default. No warning beforehand either apart from an obscure forum post a few days before. Is this some desperate attempt to build a "community" by getting the users' "consent" just before the GDPR prevents these kinds of dirty tricks? I'm very disappointed and rather pissed at them now. Not like this Gog. Not like this.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: RafiLinuxThat is not what Galaxy is, though. That is exactly what itch.io itch app is.

Galaxy is meant to connect GOG games with their online games which is a different monsters then just download apps.

Galaxy is an overloaded term, so it can get confusing. There are two distinct things here:

1. Galaxy Web API that GOG have, which allows Galaxy client(s) to authenticate and access account data. Such client can download games, incremental updates and so on and so forth. This API works over HTTP. GOG provide their own client to pair with that API, and hopefully community will be able to make an open source alternative to that.

I found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Looks like nebula is a GUI wrapper of lgogdownloader (is listed as mandatory dependency in the code). My idea is to give my girlfriend another games source, so having a GUI is mandatory in my case.

Ah, sounds good.

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Looks like nebula is a GUI wrapper of lgogdownloader (is listed as mandatory dependency in the code). My idea is to give my girlfriend another games source, so having a GUI is mandatory in my case.

In fact I tried it and I have it still installed. But I prefer use the .sh files. (And it's the same with the itch.io app)

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

It looks interesting, indeed!

And It can be easily translated to other languages..

Is very promising...
CDprojekt should hire this Ivan Yancharkin guy.

Like some of you I'm waiting for Galaxy on Linux. But that Nebula project looks interesting.

Quoting: x_wingThe core may not be a problem, but you will run in to big troubles if you use WPF for your GUI (for instance). Although Mono does a good job to run .net, I would really avoid that technology (unless you really do multiplatform QA since the start of the project). Anyway, no idea if that's the problem with GoG Galaxy, but I recall that this was a problem they have/will have with "Installation 01" launcher (if they ever want to make the port...).

Anyone using WPF (or Winforms) for a modern application is making a very odd choice. There are so many better ways to write guis in a cross-platform way; why choose a outdated platform specific one?

As an aside, MS are bringing out a Winforms and WPF compatibility layer for .Net Core that will allow existing projects to move away from .Net Framework without going through a complete rewrite. Will only support Windows though so not a way to run those guis on Linux.

Another aside, MS now own and support Mono.