Yad

Yad

(Yad Project Page: Yad)

All GUI elements in steamtinkerlaunch use yad (>=7.2)

Several distributions don't have an up2date yad package and/or a yad package maintainer (f.e. debian/ubuntu/mint flavours). If this applies for your distribution you have following options to fix this:

• (find or be a maintainer for yad for your distribution)
• compile from source
• use a custom Yad
• use exodus to generate a "portable" yad bundle from an other distro which has yad

(for further yad related information [this old discussion[https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/issues/98] might be interesting)

Compile Yad

Compiling yad from source is not that hard. Simply follow the upstream instructions oin the yad project page

Custom Yad

steamtinkerlaunch has an option to directly define a yad binary from command line which makes a global/system wide yad installation no longer a hard dependency (won't change the Arch PKGBUILD though)

Valid parameters for <YAD> in steamtinkerlaunch yad <YAD> are:

• an absolute path to custom binary (f.e steamtinkerlaunch yad /path/to/custom/yad)
• conty (so simply steamtinkerlaunch yad conty) .If not found the latest Conty release will be downloaded automatically and a yad symlink pointing to it will be defined as yad huge download
• ai or appimage (so simply steamtinkerlaunch yad ai or steamtinkerlaunch yad appimage) (see AppImage)

The yad (10.90 (GTK+ 3.24.30)) appimage was built on Arch Linux using https://github.com/kadogo/easy-builder (the author initially contributed the first yad appimage used in steamtinkerlaunch) The built yad has built-in support for WebKit, so the appimage is pretty big. I won't be able to support and/or maintain custom appimages, so you're welcome to help here!

AppImage

The ai or appimage command line option accepts multiple options:

steamtinkerlaunch yad ai → current default AppImage is downloaded/used from here (built using GitHub CI) steamtinkerlaunch yad ai /path/to/a/local/yad-appimage → sets the absolute path as yad command steamtinkerlaunch yad ai http/s/url → multiple options:

• valid URL
  • the URL ends with AppImage → the filename will be used from the URL
  • the URL does not end with AppImage → the filename will be created from Yad-$(date +%Y%m%d)-x86_64.AppImage
• invalid URL → the failed download won't be accepted, leaving currently set yad command untouched

steamtinkerlaunch yad ai /path/to/an/unusable/file → ignored, leaving currently set yad command untouched steamtinkerlaunch yad ai /invalid/absolute/path → skipped and current default AppImage is downloaded/used

• the default destination directory for downloads is ~/config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/yadappimage/
• the default AppImage download is sha512sum checked