Where to look for more "recipees" apps? (and possbility to have Dolphin as separate app)

[garret]

I am still quite noob in relation to creating new apps but found out that other people have already created some new (like Dolf, to have dosbox-x on Wolf). Do you know other resources?

I would like to have an app for Dolphin and one for an emulator for PS2. I understand you can launch these via Pegasus but that would require some extra steps while I would like to have Dolphin as a separate app. Do you know if someone has already created something similar before reinventing the wheel?

I was also surprised to see that here on this repo there is a recipee for Heroic Launcher but that does not show as an option for my user on Wolf?

[ABeltramo]

I am still quite noob in relation to creating new apps but found out that other people have already created some new (like Dolf, to have dosbox-x on Wolf). Do you know other resources?

I'd really like to create a website that collects "community images" so that people can easily see, share and comment other images. I've put something together under wildlife, but it lacks the community aspect and I should update the TOML format for the new profiles that we've added to Wolf..

I would like to have an app for Dolphin and one for an emulator for PS2. I understand you can launch these via Pegasus but that would require some extra steps while I would like to have Dolphin as a separate app.

Our images have a bit of hierarchy when building, just so that we don't have to rewrite everything all the times, at the moment it looks like the following:

flowchart TD
    A[base]-->B[base-app]
    B-->C[base-emu]
    C-->D[Pegasus]
    C-->H[Retroarch]
    B-->E[Steam]
    B-->F[Firefox]

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Under gow/images you have the "base images" whilst the apps are built on top of that in gow/apps.
So, for example, to build Pegasus from scratch you'll have to build base -> base-app -> base-emu and finally Pegasus. Or you can directly build Pegasus and pass the build argument

--build-arg BASE_APP_IMAGE=ghcr.io/games-on-whales/base-emu:edge

Do you know if someone has already created something similar before reinventing the wheel?

I don't think so AFAIK. Generally users want to use a launcher of some sorts because (most of the times?) the emulators don't have a nice joypad-compatible UI.

I was also surprised to see that here on this repo there is a recipee for Heroic Launcher but that does not show as an option for my user on Wolf?

I can't remember why it's not in the default Wolf config.toml, maybe just because it was contributed to this repo recently.. Ideally Wolf UI have a place that shows the community images, once we've got a nice website up and running 😜

[garret]

Thank you for the fast reply. I had never heard of Pegasus before and I will give it a try if it allows managing Dolphin with a joypad (because it is true that I would have that issue in having a separate Dolphin app where in theory I would need a mouse).

The information you shared about how images are built is actually really useful and clear. Probably it should be shared at some point also in the documentation because I don't think I had seen it. In any case, I really understand that there is always something to do and I am just impressed with what you have achieved so far.

[clsty]

Ideally Wolf UI have a place that shows the community images, once we've got a nice website up and running 😜

Yeah I also hope to use such a nice website.
Btw I really like your projects and apprieciate your efforts.