Sparkette Oct 30, 2018 @ 3:00pm
More options to make Proton tweaking easier
I have the option turned on to enable Steam Play for all Windows games, as I'm not afraid to experiment and tweak things to get games to work. What's a shame though is that there's no real user-friendly way to get to a place where you can do those tweaks. So what I'm asking for are three simple features that will make this much more user-friendly, none of which actually need to be specific to Steam Play:

1. A "Force Quit" button in the Steam library. This would apply to, and could be useful for, native Linux games as well (or even Windows games running on the Windows version of Steam) so it wouldn't necessarily be specific to Steam Play. I know there's Task Manager, but this would still be a nice QOL improvement to make it easier. My reason for this is because sometimes games don't entirely quit when they fail to run under Wine/Proton, and one must go to the Task Manager and find the process before Steam will attempt to launch it again.

2. A "Launch in Terminal" function. This could appear in the context menu when you right-click a game if you have the "all games" option turned on for Steam Play, but as it too isn't necessarily specific to Steam Play, you could also have it appear in the menu when you hold Shift or something. As a side note, if this function is implemented, #1 wouldn't be nearly as necessary, as you could just Ctrl+C in the terminal. My reason for this is obvious to anyone who's worked with Wine before: so you can see the error messages that appear in the terminal when a game fails to run properly.

3. An "Open Terminal" button, to open a terminal in the game's installation directory. I'm thinking it could be in the same place where the "Browse Local Files" button is, as it serves a similar purpose. What makes it especially useful for Steam Play would be that, for Steam Play games, it could set the proper environment variables (WINEPREFIX and PATH, mainly) for troubleshoot and doomg tweaks with programs like winecfg or mod tools. It could also set the working directory to the game's installation directory.

By the way, if anyone wants to know where the WINEPREFIX is for Proton games, it's in steamapps/compatdata/(appid)/pfx.
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Date Posted: Oct 30, 2018 @ 3:00pm
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