Minigalaxy version 1.4.0 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below. This release focuses mainly on improved stability and making downloads more visible.
Changes
- Various improvements to the download manager, including a pause function (thanks to GB609)
- Speed up creation of wine prefixes during installations (thanks to GB609)
- Use regedit to more permanently disable useless shortcut creation by wine from within a prefix (thanks to GB609)
- Introduce a UI to show all active, stopped or failed downloads. Also allows to permanently pause a download (thanks to GB609)
- Make more Windows games able to launch through Minigalaxy
- The download UI also shows a rough size estimate if possible (thanks to GB609)
- fix connection resource leak in DownloadManager (thanks to GB609)
- The number of parallel downloads can now be adjusted dynamically. Previous setting is saved. (thanks to GB609)
- Fixed a bug that would lead to DLCs being recognized as stand-alone games (thanks to GB609)
- Allow more games to be launched via information from goggame.info (thanks to GB609)
- The DLC list will now show a table-like multi-column view where necessary. This fixes issues with games having a high number of DLCs. (thanks to GB609)
- Some bug fixes in DownloadManager related to canceling active and queued downloads (thanks to GB609)
- Fix deletion logic of downloaded installation files. Base installers and DLC will not interfere with each other anymore. (thanks to GB609)
- Failed installs will try to keep as many downloaded parts as possible, even without the keep_installers option enabled. (thanks to GB609)
- Deleting a file in download ui now also provides the option to fully cancel the game download as if cancel on the thumbnail was clicked. (thanks to GB609)
- It's now possible to cancel auto-resume of one of many parallel DLC downloads for a game by clicking delete in the download ui after stopping it first.(thanks to GB609)
- With keep_installers enabled, Minigalaxy can now detect if a game has been fully downloaded. If not, the UI will still show the 'Download' button. (thanks to GB609)
- Installations will now run one at a time through a queue, multiple DLC can be downloaded in quick sequence. (thanks to GB609)
- Large DLC downloads will be resumed automatically on restart. (thanks to GB609)
- Improved shutdown logic of Minigalaxy. If there is an installation running, it will be finished. (thanks to GB609)
- Simple fix progress bar for games consisting of multiple files. (thanks to GB609)
- Fix log in screen remaining blank on some distributions
- Fix Minigalaxy not launching on some setups with older Nvidia cards
As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages for most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.