Option for direct desktop & start menu shortcuts

[ZashIn]

Problem description

The current shortcuts use the heroic:// protocol to launch games, which has some disadvantages:

• Heroic is always launched first, even for games which can be run directly & offline, e.g. DRM free games from GOG:
  • longer start time
  • overhead of the launcher, even when none of its features are needed (tracking, sync, ...)
• Game / executable path is not accessible via the shortcuts context menu
  (e.g. under Windows open file location)
  • Useful especially for modding

Feature description

Add an option to use the direct desktop & start menu shortcuts to the executable when possible, instead of the heroic:// protocol.

Alternatives

• manually creating the shortcut to the executable
• using a shortcut provided by the game install itself

Additional information

One of the best benefits of using a FOSS alternative launcher is not needing all the other launchers to be run (and often kept open in background) all the time, minimizing use of resources, tracking etc. Therefore, the (Heroic) launcher should avoid these downsides itself as much as possible, i.e. only launching it when needed. In the end, the desktop / start menu is already a launcher by itself.

[arielj]

You could use Heroic Bash Launcher if I understand what you want correctly https://github.com/redromnon/HeroicBashLauncher