Your choice. I think the specific issue it's having is that you've only got the 64-bit version of the Xfce theme's binary components installed and the Trine launcher is a 32-bit program.

You were right, it just needed gtk2-engines-xfce:i386.

Looks like Race the Sun is affected by the old Unity bug (which was already fixed in the newer versions of Unity). It fails to run properly on large XFS partitions (1+TB). I'll contact developers.

Hello, I've been out of linux for quite some time, I was getting back now to just find that... some games don't have tarballs on the new interface?!

Can someone clear me this?
I'm on a RPM distro, and I can't understand the reason to force us the .deb package when, until now I had the option to pick between .deb and tar.gz.

Can you specify some of these games? All the ones I have for Linux have a tarball.

If they're the LucasArts games, then that's because one of the terms of getting them on GOG was including a Windows-style forced EULA dialog and you need something capable of forcing scripts to be run on install to attempt that.

Just unpack the .deb in your archiving tool of choice:
* file-roller will show you the contents you want directly
* ark will show you the literal contents of the .deb and you need to open data.tar.* (could be .gz or .xz)
* at the command line, you can run `ar x game.deb` and then `tar xaf data.tar.*`

Once you've unpacked it, you'll notice that the file contains the "/opt/GOG Games/GameName" structure and, inside that, a perfectly ordinary start.sh like in a .tar.gz release.

(GOG already struggles to keep up with the demands on their time so they use the same mechanisms for all their games and In games which offer both a .tar.gz and a .deb release, the .deb just calls an undocumented "start.sh --install-deb" option to do the heavy lifting. Even better, they made --install-deb general enough that, as long as you remember to use "--uninstall" instead of "--uninstall-deb" (which just calls dpkg), you can use "--install-deb" to install system-wide from a .tar.gz as if you'd installed a .deb.)

That's how I installed my LucasArts games into my system-wide ScummVM instance without the hassle of manually installing, cannibalizing, and then uninstalling the .deb files. I just opened them in file-roller and extracted the specific files listed as required by the ScummVM wiki.

(Well, aside from the games where I own them on CD-ROM. It's still quicker and easier to pull my MIDI keyboard out of the way and reach for the correct end-label in my CD shelf than to redownload them over a 5Mbit connection or look through 400+ DVD+Rs on spindles for the correct backup copy.)

Thank you so much for this info!
Indeed, I was talking about a Lucasart game.

Is Linux release of KOTOR2 coming to GOG as well?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/21/knights-of-the-old-republic-2-coming-to-mac-steamos-with-massive-update?abthid=55ae6be908edff3d73000011

Came to ask this.

Edit: They're working on it:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/208580/discussions/0/541906348058768450/?tscn=1437506569#c541906348058781960

Great!

Yeah, great...

So they failed to make an arrangement? Or they meant they didn't get details yet? Before they said more details will come after GamesCom. When exactly is that?

UPDATE: That's August 06-09, 2015: http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/gamescom/index-9.php
So too early to complain yet. However I get your point that GOG should not be treated as an afterthought. That is annoying. It's a side effect of Steam being too big.

Seems the Exult dev (finally) wants to get away from SourceForge, but can't...

http://exult.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?f=1&i=1637207&t=1637207

I had emailed Aspyr for comment about GOG when Kotor2 was released, they told me it wasn't in the plans, that was before the link ricki42 posted.

I don't think everyone at Aspyr is informed about GOG and all, one person says a thing the next one says another. Unless there's an NDA maybe GOG can clarify this?