Posted January 15, 2020
From my point of view, the main purpose of GOG Galaxy is to launch games. The way I use it is that I open GOG Galaxy, look for a game I want to play, then launch the game. That's the main purpose. There might be other things that are nice to do, like rate stuff, or see what friends are doing, or buy new games, or whatever - but the core thing is that I want to launch games.
With that in mind, GOG Galaxy 1 was better, because I could double-click to launch a game. In the current beta, if I click a game (or try to double-click) it opens a full-screen overview and I have to look for the 'play' button at the top. The overview could be interesting sometimes; but the vast majority of cases I don't really need to see a description of the game, or rate it, or see my recent activity (especially since the activity section isn't currently working). In almost every case, I just want to play the game.
So my suggestion is that a single click on the game should simply select it (and selecting it could then be used to add tags, or drag it somewhere maybe or whatever). Double-click should launch it. And the overview screen could be a separate button which appears next to the game when it is selected, and can also be accessed with right-click.
Alternatively, it could remain as it is now but with a very short delay before opening the overview screen - so that it was still possible to double-click to launch.
Again, the most common thing I want to do is launch the game, and so I'd like that to be the easiest thing to do.
With that in mind, GOG Galaxy 1 was better, because I could double-click to launch a game. In the current beta, if I click a game (or try to double-click) it opens a full-screen overview and I have to look for the 'play' button at the top. The overview could be interesting sometimes; but the vast majority of cases I don't really need to see a description of the game, or rate it, or see my recent activity (especially since the activity section isn't currently working). In almost every case, I just want to play the game.
So my suggestion is that a single click on the game should simply select it (and selecting it could then be used to add tags, or drag it somewhere maybe or whatever). Double-click should launch it. And the overview screen could be a separate button which appears next to the game when it is selected, and can also be accessed with right-click.
Alternatively, it could remain as it is now but with a very short delay before opening the overview screen - so that it was still possible to double-click to launch.
Again, the most common thing I want to do is launch the game, and so I'd like that to be the easiest thing to do.
Post edited January 15, 2020 by blind3rdeye