Bug#859567: retro-gtk and gnome-games-app

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>]

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> wrote:
> Please improve the package description a little and write one or two
> additional sentences and explain what libretro is for.
>
> I think "retro-gtk is a library to make libretro frontends that use
> GTK3." doesn't ring a bell for the uninitiated.

I will see if I can figure out something longer to silence the lintian
warning. It's not really supposed to ring bells since no one should be
installing the library directly. It's a library that is only used by
gnome-games-app and maintained by the same developer.

The description I used is basically what I was given:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/retro-gtk/tree/retro-gtk.doap

It's a bit confusing because libretro is the name of a bigger and
older project to make game emulators and developer platforms.
libretro-gtk is this library that is basically a separate library that
I guess connects libretro with an app like gnome-games-app. There are
a lot of libretro cores packaged in Debian already but they need a
little integration work to be usable by gnome-games-app.

https://www.libretro.com/

> I have successfully installed gnome-games-app but no games show up. What
> do I need to do to make my *.desktop file based games from Debian main
> visible in gnome-games-app?

Are you using Debian GNOME stretch? Do you have the 'gnome'
metapackage installed?

Have you disabled tracker?

For instance, I have the gnome-games metapackage installed so I have
17 games that show up in gnome-games-app.

Jeremy