Handler for .mcpack and .mcworld

[Madis0]

I'm aware that the user can place external resources to ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/games/com.mojang/resource_packs and ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds accordingly, but what if the launcher could act as a file handler and extract them there automatically?

That would create an simple UX, similar to the official Bedrock Edition releases.

[Mhowser]

I would really appreciate this, especially if it was drag n' drop.

[callyral]

this would be nicer

[ChristopherHX]

I plan to implement this via simple-ipc. Somewhere between 0.10.0 and 1.0.0 The code to import files while the game is running has been contributed by @GameParrot.

• mcpelauncher-client filename should send the file/uri name to the last launched instance (the previous launched instance can no longer receive files after another instance starts the game)
• mcpelauncher-ui-qt filename (mcpelauncher-ui-qt can be replaced by the appimage file / flatpak run command) should call the client, if no session is active open the currently selected profile then import the file.

The .desktop file needs updates as documented in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30931/register-file-extensions-mime-types-in-linux.

I did some tests locally, I expect this to be finally be implemented within 6 month.

[codenyte]

Wasn't this implemented in mcpelauncher-client #58?