Ideas for a GUI

[xPaw]

Important

I am not going to make one, I am just making an issue to put my thoughts out on what a depot downloader gui could look like.

For a start, it shouldn't just be a wrapper for CLI that has a bunch of inputs for the relevant arguments. It would have to be done separately.

• Login with the Steam account interactively
• Ability to select from a list of your owned apps (or enter appid directly)
• Once an app is selected, pull its appinfo to display a list of branches and depots with checkboxes
  • There should be an input to specify the manifest ids you want per depot
• Once selected, pull the manifests to create a tree view of all the files so you can select which folders/files you want to actually download
• Have a few buttons to pre-select depots based on OS/language/etc similar to the existing cli arguments
• When downloading display proper progress.

For inspiration, see TeraCopy

[xiaoyu777-coder]

ok i like this

[metapea]

nice

[Alienmario]

I'd recommend going with Avalonia as it's also within the dotnet environment, open source and cross platform, alike DD. It can easily handle most use cases you can think of.

Anyways, there's indeed a lot of work to be done before DD can be reliably used as an API. (Trimming, cancellation, callbacks, concurrency, ...)

In my project I was able to circumvent most of those issues by spawning each download request as a separate process (via DepotDownloaderSubProcess). It's not ideal of course, but can be made to work as an interim solution.