thcrap_configure: Add shortcuts to Steam library
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- C++
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Description
Description
Quite a number of people have commented that integrating the thcrap shortcuts into Steam is a bit unintuitive. This point has become particularly relevant now that ZUN is investigating official download releases. In the future, Touhou games might very well be distributed through Steam, making a proper integration all the more desirable.
Prerequisites
None.
Implementation
You would think that Steam offers an API for managing the shortcuts to non-Steam applications. But no, you have to parse the Windows registry and manually write binary files to edit the shortcut list. The Ice project seems to be a "reference implementation" of how to achieve something like this - we'd only have to adapt its code.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the thcrap_configure entry point and study the Ice project linked in the issue as the reference implementation. Determine how it reads the Windows registry and writes Steam's binary shortcut files, then verify that configured thcrap shortcuts appear in the Steam library.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100