Gali

View and start all your games from a single launcher

Supported game sources

Status	Variants	Name	Description	Links
✅		Cemu	Nintendo Wii U emulator	Website | Lutris
✅ (2)		Citra	Nintendo 3DS emulator	Website | Flathub
✅ (3)		Desktop entries	Regular linux desktop entries	Specification
✅		Dolphin	Nintendo Wii / GameCube emulator	Website | Flathub
✅ (1)		Heroic	FOSS Epic Games Launcher alternative (GUI)	Website | Flathub
✅		Itch	Install, update and play indie games	Website
✅ (1)		Legendary	FOSS Epic Games Launcher alternative (CLI)	Repository
✅		Lutris	Open Source gaming platform for Linux	Website
✅		PPSSPP	Sony PSP emulator	Website | Flathub
✅		Retroarch	Frontend for the libretro API	Website | Flathub
✅ (1)		Steam	PC games store	Website | Flathub
✅ (2)		Yuzu	Nintendo Switch emulator	Website | Flathub

1. Steam, Legendary and Heroic only allow starting games, not stopping or killing them
2. Citra and Yuzu installed games are not scanned (only roms are scanned)
3. Not available in Flatpak. In flatpak's sandbox it is not possible to get desktop entries from /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share, so none of the system-wide flatpak desktop entries are scanned. See xdg-desktop-portal#809 for a possible solution.

What are these "variants" ?

Some of the supported game sources can be distributed using multiple methods. In that case, the underlying logic is the same but the place where the games are stored and how they are launched may change.

For example, Retroarch is distributed in all of these formats:

• Standalone, installed via your distribution's package manager
• Snap, installed from Snapcraft
• Flatpak, installed from Flathub
• Appimage, downloaded manually
• Steam, installed from Steam's client
• Itch.io, installed from Itch.io's website or client

It's still the same source under the hood, so all of these are variants of the standalone version.

Vision

Gali is inspired by the Unix philosophy, "Do one thing and do it well". We diverge slightly by doing a few things :

• Viewing games from a maximum of (local) sources
• Starting all games normally
• When possible, stopping started games

This means that every other task concerning games is left to the game sources. This means that Gali will not be able to install, move, uninstall, manage games.
Its goal is not to become the next Steam or Itch. Gali is only a frontend.

Everything is done to make adding new sources as simple as possible.

Installation

Gali is development. Please be patient !

Building from source

The build directory can be changed at will, but a build subdir of the repository is recommended.

git clone https://github.com/GeoffreyCoulaud/gali.git
cd gali/gali
meson setup ../build && cd ../build
meson compile
meson install

Then, simply start in a terminal

gali

TODO

• Continue UI work
• Better documentation (docstrings, wiki)
• Decouple scanning from the main thread
• Add Marie's new icon for Gali
• Add a preference panel
• Save and load user preferences
• Sources enhancements
  • Scan Dolphin cached games
  • Differenciate between Gamecube and Wii games
  • Scan installed games in Yuzu and Citra
• New sources
  • Bottles
  • itch.io
  • Decaf
  • Ryujinx
  • (Linux native) Cemu
  • (in Steam) Retroarch
  • (in Lutris) Origin
  • (in Lutris) Battle_net
  • (in Lutris) Uplay
  • (in Lutris) Teknoparrot