thanks for this nice review
Let me clarify some things about Lutris that would help understanding where the project is heading at.
The platform will come when I get more stuff done on the website. It will allow installing games from lutris.net, sharing game installers, having a friends list and other stuff similar to Steam.
Right now, there isn't much done besides the installer. It's possible to try installing games from the web but it's quite experimental, you can still try it by running "lutris lutris:quake" from the command line (this will download and install quake, but some users have reported this doesn't work for them.)
Another thing that needs clarification in my opinion is the options mechanism. There are 3 levels of configuration: system, runner and game. When you set something up in the global preferences this will affect every single game you run with lutris. When setting up runner options you can change the settings for every game that runs with that specific runner, you can also override the system options that you have previously set up in Global preferences. Finally, when configuring a game you can override again every option set up in global and runner preferences.
Getting the game covers : yes it's broken, I used Google Image for fetching the covers and google changed some stuff on their site so it doesn't work anymore. It will be fixed in a future release.
The Install Game functionnality will go under a lot of changes, it will show a list of games with available installer on Lutris.net and it will still be possible to manually launch a setup script (such as Setup.exe for wine or setup.sh for linux).
Your point about importing a thousand roms is very valid. I have plans to make use of known game databases like TOSEC in the future, like gelide or other emulator frontends.
To everyone reading this comment: the project needs testers and contributors. I would like to find someone with Django skills to help me on the website and if you know some Python (and optionnaly PyGTK), you can have a look at the GUI's source code and submit patches.
If you are not a developer, that's fine too. You can report bugs and feature wishes on
https://launchpad.net/lutris or hang out on the #lutris channel on the Freenode IRC servers.
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