Open "Important information about running this game, read this: Open page" inside launcher

[perz1val-git]

Problem description

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Feature description

The launcher can open github inside of itself when clicking "Documentation" button on sidebar. The "important information..." should open inside the launcher as well. This will make it work on steam deck in gaming (not desktop) mode and remove a need for installing a browser (because steamos does not come with one) in desktop mode just to read the "important information" that was not even for the steamdeck (it was for hogwarts legacy on mac).

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[arielj]

I'm not sure if I like this idea, because if the instructions in the wiki are steps that you have to do to get the game working, then it would be really annoying to have to keep coming back and forth those screens inside heroic.

For the steamos case, we do not recommend running games the first time in gaming mode, specially for epic games since many many games from epic will open the authorization page in an external browser and that won't work in gaming mode and it's not something heroic can control. Ideally you should be running the game the first time already in desktop mode to be covered for such cases.

[perz1val-git]

Okay, that was just my idea to not have an "important information" link that opens nothing when clicked

[arielj]

maybe we can show a warning when that's clicked on the steam deck and warn about that link only working in desktop mode (we have many actions like that: the important info, the donation links, the browse prefix folder, etc)

another thing I want to do eventually is to include information about the OS where the important info applies, to not have that link show at for linux for example when it's only for mac

[perz1val-git]

Tbh I'm a very new user of Heroic. Detecting gaming mode just for this seemed like a ton of work, that's what I suggested the simplest solution. I really have no expertise in this, but showing a warning after clicking also sounds unnecessarily complex. If you can detect SteamOS's gaming mode, then perhaps the current alert can just say: "Use desktop mode to read additional instructions for running this game in a web browser: [still include link]"

[arielj]

I was thinking of the popup warning because we have a lot of actions that won't work on the steamdeck that may not have room for extra text

and we already detect when it's a steamdeck or not and when it's in gaming mode or not, and it could be easier to have a generic message about something not working on the steamdeck than different messages for the different actions that would need to be translated

[perz1val-git]

Okay, sure. I just didn't want this to explode in scope as it's essentially not that important, just the current state is confusing