The desktop route is (almost) impossible, because it's different for every linux distribution. It typically works the other way round: Linux distro maintainers will pull open source software from the developer's repositories and integrate them into their mechanism. Your way, distributing commercial software in binary form, is a fringe case. It's not typical.

There are no commercial programs that work on every distro's desktop, they typically concentrate on one or two and let the users themselves deal with the rest. That's one of the reasons why linux is so small outside the server world.

I would just let the customer start via terminal and be done with it.

As to your second question: I have no idea about the links.

You can.

But you cannot have one, that will 100% reliably execute from linux file managers.

It will always work from the terminal, as soon as the execute flag is set.

RBuster

I checked your demo.

The thing on linux is: shared libraries (something like a .dll on windows) can be executable too, depending on how they are programmed. The file managers try to identify those by various methods and hide the executable options on them.

The problem is: the way modern executables are compiled those file managers sometimes misinterpret and have false positives. This is typically no problem, because, unlike on windows, people do not browse to a directory with a file manager and execute stuff there. You run your stuff either through your desktop environment (start menu entries or whatever the specific linux distribution offers for its own software), or by terminal.

The file manager that I have tested (thunar) falls for the nw-executable too and does not offer to execute it. There is probably no way to get this to work reliably, because of the way chromium is required to be built.

If your customer requires this: drop the customer

I have no idea about the XML problem (I have never tried that and also have not been using C2 for quite a while now), but for your issues with the executable, you can send me a PM with a link to a zip or something like that, then I will have a look at here on my linux PC.

I have compressed and copied the package to the home folder and after I extracted the files, I defined the file permission. When I try to execute the game the system continues to warning me that there is no application installed for "shared library" files and asking me if want to search one to open this file.

This typically happens, if you mismatch builds, like trying to execute a 32bit executable on a 64bit linux. Unlike windows, this does not work (not by default and requires some work). So if you have a 64bit Linux, be sure to use the 64bit executable.

If the files sit in the shared folders (i.e. if you try to access it from within virtualbox, but they still sit on the regular filesystem) you might not be able to change the permission. I'm not familiar with it, but I remember from a long time ago (that was with virtualbox on windows) that you had to mount the shared filesystem in a very specific way and also add your linux user to a specific usergroup to be able to change the permissions and owners accordingly.

The simplest thing would (probably) be to copy the files into the linux file system and not try to get it right on the shared folders.

Galaxy Tabs are notorious for being bad with wrapped html5 games (or even in the browser), and have a long tradition of being so. Banning them is the only way to keep your reviews clean.

Have you set the executable-flag (of the file, after you exported it)?

To me this looks like simple point filtering vs. Letterbox artifacting, when the device resolution is not an integer multiple of your game's resolution. I guess this game was designed with a special device in mind? (maybe an Iphone)

The question is a bit too broad. You have to break it down further. What exactly is it that you are stuck at?

I once created a fake desktop using C2 (they could not show a real windows desktop for legal/copyright reasons). It was rather simple. Started with the background wallpaper, icons as sprites, and when clicked on some icons a window would pop up (also a sprite, with a drag & drop behaviour so that one could drag it around).

skymen

Oh but he does. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth and flesh.

No. Scirra retains 30% of your net revenue (that's the industry standard, by the way).

The final store price includes VAT and transfer fees. Those get deducted first (and due to VATMOSS it always differs a bit, depending on where the buyer is located). After that, Scirra takes their 30%. And the rest is what you get. That's how it works.