hedge-dev/UnleashedRecomp

Allow installing desktop files while installed as native

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Plans had been made that we should release a build without flatpak's sandbox. Currently doing this will work fine for just playing the game, but for modding, this will become an issue due to the lack of a URI scheme being installed to the system.

The solution should be as simple as following these steps:

  • Embed or generate a .desktop
    • Can use what we have for flatpak as a base
    • Change Exec to the location of the game's executable binary.
    • Change Icon to UnleashedRecomp
  • Install desktop file and icon
    • Desktop files can be installed/linked to ~/.local/share/applications with a name like UnleashedRecomp.desktop
    • Icons files can be installed/linked to .local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps with a name like UnleashedRecomp.png (Make sure to create the folder if missing)
    • Update applications cache by running update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
  • Register the mime type
    • Just run xdg-mime default UnleashedRecomp.desktop x-scheme-handler/unleashedrecomp

For most Linux systems this should work without any issues.

With AppImage this is handled by appimage integration tools like AM, appimagelauncher, appimaged, etc

Example with appimaged and this existing appimage

https://streamable.com/dm575h

They also do handle updates using appimageupdate with zsync and this method provides delta updates, that is it doesn't download the entire thing but only the diff.