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Kingdom Come generated launcher and functional Wine prefix

Ambrevar requested to merge kcd-update into master

This is a step forward towards Wine-launcher generators.

The main question at the moment: can we make a functional WINEPREFIX? Currently, the WINEPREFIX is not upgraded together with Wine/DXVK which is rather problematic.

We could create a wineprefix and a wineprefix-with-dxvk packages which would just include a pre-generated Wine prefix. Then our launcher would simply copy the wineprefix from the store into a writable location (e.g. ~/.cache/GAME_wineprefix). This raises a couple of questions:

  1. We must check if the Wine prefix generation is itself functional and not influenced by, say, the hardware.

  2. Second we must find a way to deal with cache stored inside the prefix. If a game generates a lot of cache, it might be a hindrance to regenerate the Wine prefix on every start.

I'm deleting the search-auxiliary-gaming-file procedure in this patchset because it's not used anywhere. OK with that?

KCD is missing a desktop entry and most importantly an icon. While I can extract the icon from the executable, we can't do this at build-time. I'm not sure it's OK to store the icon on the Guix Gaming channels. Thoughts?

@ajgrf You recently found a nice icon for Papers, Please! How did you find it?

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