[Heroic] Accidental execution of Heroic unstall from Omarchy menu

[b0ngz]

Summary
Omarchy’s Remove menu entries for game launchers don’t just uninstall the app. Several of them delete game libraries and save data with only a sudo/password prompt, which is easy
to mistake for an update or for launching the app. I hit this by accident and lost a full GOG install plus local saves.

What happened

1. I opened the Super+Space menu intending to launch Heroic.
2. I selected what turned out to be Remove → Heroic (same product name as Install/the app; easy to confuse when searching).
3. I was prompted for my password and assumed it was for an update/privilege to open the app.
4. omarchy-remove-gaming-heroic ran and deleted:
   • the Heroic package
   • ~/.config/heroic
   • ~/.local/share/heroic (Proton/Wine prefixes — where saves live)
   • ~/Games/Heroic (game installs; on my system that is /mnt/shared/Games/Heroic)

Why this is a problem
• Uninstalling a launcher is not the same as wiping games and saves. Most users expect package removal to leave ~/Games and prefixes alone (e.g. pacman -Rns
heroic-games-launcher-bin).
• The only gate is sudo for pacman; there is no confirmation like “this will permanently delete your games and save files.”
• Install and Remove share similar labels (“Heroic (Epic Games)”), so search makes accidental selection likely.
• The same pattern exists for other removers (Steam, Minecraft, Lutris, etc.). RetroArch’s remover is a better model in one respect: it leaves ~/Games/roms and BIOS alone.

Suggestion

1. Default Remove = uninstall the package only (configs optional).
2. Put “Remove Heroic and all games/saves” behind a separate action with an explicit warning and a typed confirmation (e.g. type DELETE).
3. In the menu/search UI, make Remove rows visually distinct (e.g. label “Remove Heroic (deletes games)” / different icon section) so they don’t look like “open Heroic.”
4. Consider the same treatment for Steam/Minecraft/Lutris removers.

Workaround I’m using
Hide the entire Remove tree via ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc (when: "false" on remove and all remove.* ids), and uninstall packages with pacman when needed so
game data isn’t wiped.

Aside from this issue: thank you for Omarchy and the helper tooling around it, especially the AI side. What used to keep me off Linux wasn’t the desktop itself — it was how long
debugging took. Being able to diagnose and fix problems with AI has cut that time enough that Linux is practical for me again.