It has been a while since the last release, but Minigalaxy version 1.2.0 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. It adds a ton of features and brings some interface changes. It also adds Greek and Romanian translations. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.
Changes
- Split game information and properties into different windows (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Add list view (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Allow DLC to be queued up for downloading (thanks to flagrama)
- Fix changing library to a directory with special characters in the name (thanks to makson96)
- Fix signing in with Facebook (thanks to phlash)
- Always use cached DLC icons and thumbnails (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Cache information covers (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Fix installers not being cleaned up like expected (thanks to Kzimir)
- Fix error when opening game properties window when wine is not installed (thanks to lmeunier)
- Fix freeze for games generating a lot of output (thanks to lmeunier)
- Fix extracting rar based games with innoextract (thanks to Kzimir)
- Allow setting wine executable per game (thanks to Kzimir)
- Add GameMode support (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Add MangoHud support (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Add option to use Winetricks (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Fix updates not always being detected directly after opening Minigalaxy (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Fix desktop files generated not always being able to launch (thanks to otaconix)
- Show percentage when hovering over download progress bar (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Add option to disable update check per game (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- Add forum, GOG Database and PCGamingWiki URLs to game information (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
- List genre as unknown in game information when none is found (thanks to mareksapota)
- Fix changing installation path causing crashes in rare cases (thanks to makson96)
- Fall back to English when locale cannot be determined (thanks to flagrama)
- Add gettext to build dependencies (thanks to larslindq)
- Improve error handling upon API errors
- Fix several issues with launching Windows games from Minigalaxy
- Fix some games getting stuck on in queue
- Fix Windows game installation not caring about preferred language (thanks to Kzimir)
- Add Greek translation (thanks to Pyrofanis)
- Add Spanish (Spain) translation (thanks to mbarrio)
- Add Romanian (Romania) translation (thanks to xSlendiX)
- Update Norwegian Bokmål translation (thanks to kimmalmo)
- Update Czech translation (thanks to jakbuz23)
As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.