The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

By Liam Dawe - 23 Apr 2018 at 12:11 pm UTC

DRM free store GOG has just released their new profile system and it's surprisingly slick to look at.

So you now get a customizable profile, an activity feed to see what friends are up to and what they've been playing*, share random messages to show up in your friends feeds like Twitter. Just remember to check out those new privacy settings, so you can be sure you know what they're showing to the world.

Just look at how fancy I made myself look:

It might be old news to some, but I didn't even realise GOG actually had a built-in webchat system to talk to friends. This new profile system certainly makes it more apparent that's for sure, as you hover over a friends name and get greeted with the message option. It works quite well too! You can find their announcement on it all here.

*Now then GOG—how about Galaxy on Linux next yes? We've been pretty patient on that I think…

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Comandante Ñoñardo 24 Apr 2018

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

It looks interesting, indeed!

And It can be easily translated to other languages..

Is very promising...
CDprojekt should hire this Ivan Yancharkin guy.

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neotsubasa 28 Apr 2018

Like some of you I'm waiting for Galaxy on Linux. But that Nebula project looks interesting.

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Scattershot 18 Jun 2018

Quoting: x_wingThe core may not be a problem, but you will run in to big troubles if you use WPF for your GUI (for instance). Although Mono does a good job to run .net, I would really avoid that technology (unless you really do multiplatform QA since the start of the project). Anyway, no idea if that's the problem with GoG Galaxy, but I recall that this was a problem they have/will have with "Installation 01" launcher (if they ever want to make the port...).

Anyone using WPF (or Winforms) for a modern application is making a very odd choice. There are so many better ways to write guis in a cross-platform way; why choose a outdated platform specific one?

As an aside, MS are bringing out a Winforms and WPF compatibility layer for .Net Core that will allow existing projects to move away from .Net Framework without going through a complete rewrite. Will only support Windows though so not a way to run those guis on Linux.

Another aside, MS now own and support Mono.

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