Solus's implementation of lsfg-vk

T3RR0RH4WK

I'd seen in the Solus feature requests that someone had requested lsfg-vk to be implemented, and they volunteered to be its maintainer.

That's fantastic, and thanks to Solus for so quickly approving that.

I installed it, however there is no UI/application showing up and the app must instead be launched via terminal with the command "lsfg-vk-ui" which then launches the UI/application.

Is this on purpose? Per the github page for it, there are multiple ways to install it for other distros, including just cloning the github repo to install it, and the usual installations carry with it the UI which adds itself to a launcher. I tried it on another distro on spare PC I have that I installed CachyOS onto as a trial, and installation brought a launcher with it without the need for launching via terminal.

Anyway, will this be changed? I wouldn't imagine that casual gamers would prefer to launch it via terminal.

Just curious. Appreciate any input!

EDIT: I'm on GNOME.

Harvey

It appears in the system menu for me on Plasma but I do see an error in its packaging which may cause issues on other DE's.

T3RR0RH4WK

Harvey Good find. What's it related to, if I might ask? It must have evaded me.

T3RR0RH4WK

Harvey

The .desktop file which is what makes it appear in the menu should be installed to /usr/share/applications/ but instead its installed to a subfolder within that directory. So if an app launcher doesn't search recursively in that directory it will break as it appears to have done on Gnome and Budgie.

Fix incoming soon.

Harvey

A update has been pushed to shannon (stable) to resolve this issue, please update again.

EDIT:
Thank you for reporting the issue btw.

T3RR0RH4WK

Harvey That’s great! I’ll update soonest I’m able! It’s great to have such a proactive team and community on Solus.

Cheers!

Harvey

T3RR0RH4WK

Cherry-picked another lsfg-vk fix, this time for its icon. Same core issue as the desktop file but worse due to eopkg being too stupid to handle what was a folder name now being replaced by a file of the same name at the same location... you will get this error if you already had it installed.

Installation order: lsfg-vk
Installing lsfg-vk, version 1.0.0, release 3
Extracting the files of lsfg-vk
 [✓] Syncing filesystems                                                success
 [✓] Updating desktop database                                          success
System error. Program terminated.
[Errno 21] Is a directory: 'usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/gay.pancake.lsfg-vk-ui.png'
Please use 'eopkg help' for general help.
Use --debug to see a traceback.

To resolve this one properly you are going to need to remove lsfg-vk run sudo eopkg up -y and then install lsfg-vk again.

Have I mentioned how much I hate eopkg lately? 🤯

This will also mean it will not appear in gnome-software or discover until appstream metadata is generated again, probably not until next sync. But its available via the command line.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

T3RR0RH4WK

Harvey Hahah understandable, but another awesome find despite the frustration. No worries, I've gotten it updated now and all seems to be installed fine, icon and all, in the application overview on GNOME.

Thanks again!