Silent installation does not work, it installs non-silently.

[itchio]

Silent installation does not work, it installs non-silently.

[fasterthanlime]

Look at this cute thing:

[fasterthanlime]

Yeeep silent mode has been used in the past to:

• Skip "pick a folder" on Windows when I was investigating a hard-to-reproduce bug when healing a folder (that's how itch-setup installs the app). On Windows it hides the window, so it's sorta silent.
• Test the error state on macOS (it shows "silent mode not supported on macOS")

However I intend to make the silent mode work properly on Linux at some point.

A few notes on that:

• It'll still need gtk3+ libraries on startup, that's unavoidable
  • It technically isn't unavoidable - but it would be impractical to move to a dlopen model right now, unless https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3 started supporting it (and with the current Go toolchain, I'm not holding my breath)
• However, it shouldn't require an X display (or wayland server or whatever), so we can't just do the Windows trick where we create a window and then hide it
• The proper way to implement is to have a "UI" interface somewhere in https://github.com/itchio/itch-setup/blob/master/native/native_linux.go that somehow works for both GTK (an asynchronous, callback-based thing) and the CLI (an immediate thing). That way both can still have the same "native bits" (how to launch, how to relaunch something, where are XDG files located, etc.)

It's probably not a lot of work, someone just needs to, y'know, do it. I can try for next week, but no guarantees!