I experimented with Mirror's Edge Tweaks in Avalonia UI for native Linux support

[Dwarf1er]

Hello softsoundd!

First off, amazing work on your tools, it’s been a huge help for Mirror's Edge players!

I use Linux and recently experimented with porting the WPF UI to Avalonia so it can run natively without Wine. PR #4 that @Creationsss opened to add Linux support gave me the inspiration to try it out, and I ended up doing a port of the WPF UI to Avalonia UI to natively support all major OSes.

I’ve tested most features and it seems to work well. I tried to keep the UI as close as possible to the original.

Here's a screenshot of it running natively on Arch Linux:

Here's the link to the avalonia branch on my fork in case anyone's curious: avalonia branch

No pressure at all, I’m not expecting a merge. I just wanted to share the rewrite in case it’s of interest to you or anyone else in the Mirror's Edge community.

Cheers!

[maddoodles]

How does one use this version, if it is in a useable state at the moment? I’m having trouble using the original via proton and I’m hoping this might do in the mean time. 😅

[Dwarf1er]

You would have to install the dotnet 10 package on your system and clone the repo to build from source.

I might setup proper releases for linux users if there's enough interest.

[maddoodles]

I've managed to build the program but there are a number of errors I'm unsure how to resolve:

• When loading, I get "Error extracting decompressor: could not find the embedded "decompress.exe". The application cannot continue.
• Then: Could not locate any editable properties in the game files
• If I try to download TdGameFix: Could not determine download URL

Everything else that I've tried seems to work okay but I cannot be sure. Full discolsure, I'm a complete layman at this and I used an AI to poke me in vaguely the right direction, so I'd be unsurprised if there's some important steps I missed or something.

Thank you for your time!

EDIT: Between this and manual file management, I think I've sorted everything I need to.

[Dwarf1er]

Yeah I haven't fully tested everything, the decompress.exe dependency has been removed in more recent versions of the original MirrorsEdgeTweaks.

If I have more time I'll work more on the fork