automatic game configuration import from multiple other platforms

[frostworx]

Would be nice to have an optional search for required tweaks from various different platforms.
Most interesting ones would be probably

• Lutris
• protondb
• directly proton issues https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues

Lutris has an open api which could be used - I asked here if using it from stl would be ok: lutris/lutris#3117

• protondb doesn't seem to have any usable api, but if the data could be reached, some basic functions searching for required tweaks could be done. I only found this (half-official?)half-maintained project https://github.com/bdefore/protondb-data
  which only offers huge static tarballs of monthly reports. opened an issue here 6 weeks ago asking for improvements : [Feature Request] incremental data with automatic parsable tweaks bdefore/protondb-data#28

• the proton issue tracker is probably full of useful informations, but haven't found(/searched) for a way yet to automatically search in there.

edit:

• would be great to also import protonfixes gamefixes : just opened a request here: autoimport (most) of your gamefixes into my stl simons-public/protonfixes#137

any other sources I forgot/don't know?

[frostworx]

ok, pulling all issues from proton issue tracker (keeping those allrady downloaded to not flood) is pretty easy

[frostworx]

protonfixes implementation is already working pretty fine (offline)

[arrowgent]

automating fixes in this way seems like an AI Heuristics method to find strings that work and then translate that into pass/fail criteria
i couldnt even imagine the parsing language to find a fix

lutris atleast is just scripts ready to go.

if you are going to use these, atleast make them Optional/Manual
and transparent, (we can open the fix and look at its contents from within the menu) before accepting.

[frostworx]

Of course this will be optional. The whole concept is pretty stable.
No platform, no matter how good the import works will be enabled by default.
Weaker platform imports (looking at you #47) will get a warning
(parsing plain text will be very basic of course).
Platforms which the user decides to use will always(!) have a lower priority than all other configs, as they will be loaded at first and therefore will be overridden by all other configs following.
The autotweak will be opened together with the main config when WAITEDITOR is enabled
(edit: It will use ATEDITOR which will fall back to WAITEDITOR if empty).

[frostworx]

protonfixes and lutris fixed in fixed in 1278f8a

[frostworx]

Remaining "platforms" which might be added are in #47 and #48