Protontricks/Winetricks integration with SteamPlay

[Twiss]

After switching to Linux and using a lot of SteamPlay/Proton... massively impressed!
Well done Valve!

However during my experience it has become obvious that Protontricks and Winetricks are essential to getting most games working

Is it possible for Valve to integrate something similar into SteamPlay?
Or the option to easily install Windows applications to work with games?

For example lots of games require Visual C++ runtimes of different versions, various font packs, DirectX audio (XACT) and the Direct 3D compiler.

I feel that options to install and switch between VC runtimes and use DirectX DLLs would massively improve the number of Windows games that can be easily run on Steamplay.

Any thoughts?

Addition:

I should add that you can sort of do this using Lutris creating a custom game, setting the application to run to whatever you want to install, start. Application loads as expected. Then switch back to the regular game executable.
Haven't tested it massively but seems to work!

[Twiss]

One final thought, if you are reading this from Windows... get rid of it and go Linux :P

[bunder]

Proton is supposed to make all those changes for you if the game is supported, if its not supported you can use the regular winetricks if you change the wine prefix to the pfx directory of the game you need to modify.