According to some programs in Gnome, the version number is "bumped up," even though there were no changes.
This ideology seems odd to me.
Example the Gnome game, "Hitori."
And while I have your attention,
I still have not figured out the game-launcher "Athenaeum." I can't get any of the games installed with that to update. Is there a separate updater inside the game-launcher ? Maybe they are up to date, but Gnome Software does not think so. Try Hitori for example, since it is so tiny, and you might be able to verify my issue. I have not yet check in terminal to see if the version number matches what Gnome Software is claiming.
David Locklear
On Jul 7, 2020, at 23:11, David dlocklear01@gmail.com wrote:
I still have not figured out the game-launcher "Athenaeum." I can't get any of the games installed with that to update. Is there a separate updater inside the game-launcher ? Maybe they are up to date, but Gnome Software does not think so. Try Hitori for example, since it is so tiny, and you might be able to verify my issue. I have not yet check in terminal to see if the version number matches what Gnome Software is claiming.
According to the project’s web page:
Athenaeum uses flatpak as its packaging system and pulls all data from flathub currently.
GNOME software updates flatpak too, so I’d expect it updates the software you’ve installed via flatpak. You could test it with the command `flatpak update`. (Or if it’s installed as the user, `flatpak —user update`.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
It looks like most of the bumps in the version numbers of the specific games that I have installed are just adding or updating the languages translations.
But after tinkering with the game-launcher Athenaeum for a few hours, I do not yet understand it very well.
There is an "Update All" feature in the menu, and it goes to the various flathub repos and updates the game. ( And it displays a silly message that is different each time you update, For example, "Ringing Cowbells". For example, Minetest game is updated to the June 10th version and most of the Gnome games are around March, 2020, and most of the other games I have are late 2019 versions.
But Gnome software is confused about that for some reason.
I think what I am saying is that if you have to have the nightly version of the game, then don't use Athenaeum as your game-launcher.
But if you want to easily scroll through a list of 100 installed games, the games do launch quickly. I guess Athenaeum would be something to put on a kid's Linux computer.
David Locklear
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