Xenoveritas/abuse

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Mailaender commented

Hi, I created a Flatpak package at flathub/flathub#3208

QmwJlHuSg9pa commented

Hi, I installed v0.9.1 from Flathub (Fedora Silverblue).

There is no sound in-game.

Log shows: Sound: Disabled (couldn't find the sfx directory /app/share/games/abuse/sfx)
Indeed, when navigating to: /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.Xenoveritas.abuse/current/active/files/share/games/abuse, there is no sfx directory to be found.

QmwJlHuSg9pa commented

I know what I wrote above sounds like a non-issue (and I have since stumbled upon the Github README), but consider the following:

  1. I installed Abuse via the Flathub remote. The Flathub listing does not link to the README file. Instead it leads to the homepage of the original project (whereas Xenoveritas is a fork, correct?), and also the Issues page (which is how I found this very issue).
  2. Flatpak applications are not directly editable by the user.
  3. The Flatpak docs mention XDG_DATA_HOME as a potential location for user-specific data files.
  4. Placing sfx within XDG_DATA_HOME (i.e. $HOME/.var/app/com.github.Xenoveritas.abuse/data/sfx) does not resolve the issue (nor do any variations of hierarchy involving share/games/abuse/ directories below data dir).

Is the most practical solution here to patch the Flatpak app to search XDG_DATA_HOME for user-supplied data files?

Regardless, the Flatpak listing description should be updated to mention that user intervention is required to complete the game install (it is in no way obvious that sfx and music are not packed-in).