The release of the Startwine-Launcher 420 application has been published. This application is developed for running programs and games compiled for the Windows platform in Linux systems. The main goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by beginners—sets of libraries and dependencies needed for running Windows applications in Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on the GTK library.
Key Changes:
- The StartWine interface integrates authentication and gaming libraries from GOG.COM and the Epic Games Store.
- A WOW64 subsystem has been added for better compatibility with 32-bit applications.
- A virtual keyboard for gamepads has been added.
- Wine Proton EM has been added.
- A StartWine uninstaller has been added.
- An NTSYNC option has been added to improve performance.
- A Wine Wayland driver option has been added for running with pure Wayland.
- A lossless scaling algorithm has been added for frame generation.
- HDR support has been added. If the game supports HDR, the switch in the game will be unlocked.
- A StartWine RU repository has been added for downloading and installation. Automatic selection of the fastest repository has been implemented. An automatic download function from the fastest repository has been added. server.
- Several animations for the interface have been added.
- A sample color scheme 'Dark Side' has been added.
- A StartWine build system from source code has been added.
- Part of the code has been rewritten in Rust.
- A parameter for setting the backup update interval has been implemented in the settings.
- The list of hotkeys has been grouped by categories.
- Some configuration files have been moved to the cache directory to retain user settings after updating StartWine.
- Color schemes for the interface have been added to StartWineShell along with executable file highlighting, the ability to launch Wine when starting a game, and launching games from GOG and Epic installed via StartWine. An SW_EDITOR environment variable has been added to set the default text editor.
- The list of Wine, dxvk, and vkd3d versions has been updated.
- Updated libraries in the StartWine runtime environment, default prefix backup, prefix configuration, locale, winetricks DLL files list, libraries and drivers in the container.
Source: opennet.ru
