Appinfo

Appinfo

The Steam binary appinfo.vdf (~/.steam/steam/appcache/appinfo.vdf) contains lots of valuable information about games. stl is able to extract all raw data for a game (on demand or also via Command Line), stores it into ~/.config/stl/games/appinfo/$SteamAppId.bin and extracts required data from it. (be aware that extracting the data for many files can take a long time - >30min for ~6500 SteamAppIds when testing)

The extracted data is identical to that coming from appinfo.vdf, but stored in a separate (binary) file per game for later use.

Currently the file is used in

• the Game Icons function, used for creating Game-Desktop-Files
• the getGameName function (optionally)