LCDonald.desktop causes Dolphin file manager to hang

[Obspogon]

With Steam Deck, extracting that file from the linux version to a folder and navigating to it in Dolphin freezes it. the other files work fine, it's specifically LCDonald.desktop that causes the issue.

[Difegue]

well the .desktop file is the executable so that's annoying - can you run it successfully via the terminal?
I'm wondering if it's not missing some metadata that's hanging dolphin - removing the extension from the file might fix that?

[Obspogon]

When running with terminal i get an error that it's not an executable file. removing the .Desktop extension before unzipping fixes the Dolphin error and lets me launch it, but when I click on play, the games don't run beyond turning some of the lights off.

[Difegue]

Hmm I'm not sure what'd cause this, I don't have a steam deck to test their Linux flavor🤔
I tested the build on a stock Debian install and it ran fine there.

It's weird that you can't run it through the terminal though, that'd be useful to see exception logs... Maybe it just needs a chmod +x?

[Obspogon]

chmod +x lets me launch the .desktop file through the command line at least, but I get the same issue when playing the games.

[termdisc]

The extension .desktop causes KDE's Dolphin (the file manager) to try to interpret it as a text-based shortcut file. The file itself is a binary executable, so this causes Dolphin to act up. Renaming the file will overcome this issue.