Games Library: External Programs show only when Steam Third Party and External filters are selected

[split mason]

When only "External Programs" filter is selected, the list is empty. See attached screenshots.
"La-Mulana 2" is an external application.

[fair owl]

Thanks for your feedback
We fix it soon!

[rough turtle]

Tested a bit, seems to be a problem with the external programs thinking they are "Steam third party"

[rough turtle]

Yeah, the external apps where categorizing as steam third party, that fixed it, you may have to re-add your external apps when this fix rolls out.

[mild palm]

Not a solution, there should be logic to update existing entries to accomodate the fix

It's all in the filter logic anyway so there's no valid reason for games already registered as external to be re-added by users when the app should just filter them properly

[rough turtle]

Not really, because the external games are created and added to cache incorrectly, to update existing entries we'd need to filter out actual steam third party games from the external games and change those accordingly.

[mild palm]

Which is possible and should be done

It should never be on the user to start anew because of such bugs (it's like "we updated with fixes but your saves won't work, please restart your playthrough" in changelogs imo 😉 )

[rough turtle]

I didn't see it necessary since we're in a beta, and this kind of issues are expected, but, sure, I'll look into updating existing entries.

[mild palm]

Beta is more quirky (closer to stable) than buggy (alpha) in theory though (at least the way I see it, sorry if I'm being a d*ck, have had this issue for a while now and I thought Pali would have let you guys know earlier)

[rough turtle]

It's fine, dw.

[potent osprey]

You know I’m always solving the world’s issues.

It’s also two seconds to fix

Now that I know they only show when third party is selected

[rough turtle]

Done

[mild palm]

Great news then 😊 I thought that fix was included in today's first silent update so I was a bit annoyed reading I might end up having to add some 30 games manually, again

Done it twice already and well, it's a damn chore if you can't remember exactly which profile was set to which 😉

Thank you both

[potent osprey]

Changing category to unknown is not what I call a fix…

That just sounds confusing

[rough turtle]

Should it be a new app category?

[mild palm]

Should just be per platform imo, as the filtering option offers

[potent osprey]

Look for ‘sortedList.RemoveAll(i => i.Category == Classes.DataBindApp.AppCategory.ThirdParty);’

Just add && i.Launcher == Classes.DataBindApp.AppLauncher.Steam

There’s third party and Steam

Third party and external

Ezpz. Wouldn’t require updating anything from cache file etc..

Sorry am on phone or I would’ve done the fix

[rough turtle]

Yeah, I already added the updating of existing ones, I just used -1, aka, unknown as the appCategory, since it isn't necessary in the external apps.

[potent osprey]

What I’m saying is I don’t want it to be an unknown category… leave it as third party and no need to update existing ones

[rough turtle]

Oh, kk, sorry.

[potent osprey]

Hot fix pushed to steam, get the update instantly by verifying integrity files in DSX properties section in your steam library

[split mason]

I confirm the list now works as expected, although I had to re-add all external programs again.
Thanks for the great support!