gnome-games and gnome-games-app on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Keith,

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 at 15:57, Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:

> Gnome-games-app (gga) is typical of too many gnome.org programs: a
> fairly good idea that suffers from a half-assed implementation. In this
> case, the gga has no obvious working way to find the games installed on
> the system, not even the games that are installed with the gnome-games
> package. So you either have to add the games manually via a file
> manager, or create a new directory in Home (~/Games) and copy or symlink
> the desktop files (*.desktop) of the games there and then start System
> Settings and go to Settings->Search->Search locations->Other->+ and add
> your newly created Games directory. Then when gnome's indexing service,
> tracker, runs, it's supposed to populate the games in gga.
>
> You'll find the gnome-game desktop files and any other games installed
> via the package manager in /usr/share/applications.
>
> To install manually, right click on the game desktkop file and select
> "Open with Games" and it'll automatically add it to gga.
>

Thank you for your help. I'll try and automate at least part of this
process with a shell script over the coming days.

If you have any ideas about that, I'm all ears :)

BW,


Ian

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