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feat: Support detecting Flatpak extensions - #505

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Purpose of this PR:

Integrate Dolphin and Wiicompiled Flatpak extensions into Wheel Wizard. Dolphin has been bundled for some time now, but not as an extension. Wiicompiled has been used as an AppImage in the Wheel Wizard Flatpak, but this is not compatible with all types of systems. Using a bundled Wiicompiled Flatpak extension fixes these kinds of issues due to not pulling the AppImage anymore. This PR makes Wheel Wizard use these extensions if it's running as a Flatpak and prevent it from running a Wiicompiled AppImage or any other Dolphin installation (it still uses the configured user folder). Additionally, this PR adds detection for whether the extensions are correctly installed and prevents launching the game if the required extension is not present.

It should be noted that it would be preferable to have this merged after the related Wiicompiled PRs (patchzyy/Wiicompiled#270, and preferably patchzyy/Wiicompiled#271) have been merged.

How to Test:

dotnet test should still pass.

On Linux, check out the feat/extensions branch at https://github.com/flathub/io.github.TeamWheelWizard.WheelWizard/tree/feat/extensions, build the Flatpak, and run the Flatpak:

./build-and-install.sh
flatpak run --branch=master io.github.TeamWheelWizard.WheelWizard

The new Flatpak approach has generally been tested already, along with Wiicompiled updates etc. It needs to be ensured that the Update button still works as intended, while ignoring the GitHub releases and only using the installed Wiicompiled extension version as a source of truth.

On other setups (non-Flatpak Wheel Wizard or non-Linux systems) this should not break Dolphin or Wiicompiled.

What Has Been Changed:

  • Binary (wrapper) paths have been updated for the Flatpak environment to the right extension paths.
  • The possible Wheel Wizard status values have been extended to include "no Dolphin extension" and "no Wiicompiled extension" for Flatpak Wheel Wizard.
  • Checking the GitHub AppImage release of Wiicompiled is prevented for the Wheel Wizard Flatpak, as the only way to use it is through the Flatpak extension (which is auto-installed by default).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected Dolphin and WiiCompiled executable paths in Flatpak environments.
    • The app now detects missing Dolphin or WiiCompiled extensions and shows a clear configuration status before launch or installation.
    • Bundled WiiCompiled setups now install and report their version without unnecessary release checks or changes to bundled files.

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The change detects missing Flatpak Dolphin and Recomp extensions, reports their status in distribution and Recomp flows, and updates WiiCompiled installation and uninstall handling for bundled setup binaries.

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Flatpak Extension Support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Extension detection and paths
WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ExtensionConfigurationInfo.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ISettingsServices.cs, WheelWizard/Shared/Platform/RuntimeEnvironmentExtensions.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Dolphin/Paths/DolphinPathLayout.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompPaths.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Dolphin/Discovery/DolphinDiscoveryService.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Shared/Platform/EnvironmentDependencyTests.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Dolphin/DolphinPathResolverTests.cs
The settings API reports whether the applicable Flatpak extension is missing. Extension checks verify the expected executable, and sandboxed paths use the extension locations. Tests cover sandbox detection, executable presence, and the Dolphin wrapper path.
Extension status propagation
WheelWizard/Models/Enums/ActionButtonStats.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompEnvironment.cs, WheelWizard/Features/CustomDistributions/RetroRewind.cs, WheelWizard/Features/CustomDistributions/RetroRewindBeta.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompInstallService.cs, WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompLauncher.cs, WheelWizard/Resources/Languages/en.yml, WheelWizard/Views/Pages/HomeViewModel.cs, WheelWizard/Views/Pages/TestingPage.axaml.cs
Status checks return missing-extension results. The launcher and views map them to status text, button styling, and icons.
Bundled WiiCompiled setup lifecycle
WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompLinuxInstallService.cs
Bundled setup paths skip release lookup and binary copying. Installation records a resolved version, and uninstall preserves the configured bundled setup directory.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RecompLinuxEnvironment
  participant SettingsManager
  participant RuntimeEnvironmentExtensions
  participant RecompInstallService
  RecompLinuxEnvironment->>SettingsManager: CheckExtensionConfiguration()
  SettingsManager->>RuntimeEnvironmentExtensions: Check required Flatpak extension program
  RuntimeEnvironmentExtensions-->>SettingsManager: Missing or present result
  SettingsManager-->>RecompLinuxEnvironment: ExtensionConfigurationInfo
  RecompInstallService->>RecompLinuxEnvironment: Read GetExtensionConfigurationInfo
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 47438

A fresh Flatpak installation can offer Update instead of the first-install flow, and an installation can finish without being recognized as installed. Fix both paths before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 47438

Bundling the setup executable changes how a fresh installation is recognized. In some configurations, the first-run data choice can be skipped; a successful setup can also remain marked out of date if its version is not reported. No new attacker-controlled execution path was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: With Retro Rewind already installed, a fresh Flatpak WiiCompiled extension can be classified as an out-of-date installation because its packaged executable exists before install state does. The home action then uses Update rather than Install, skipping the first-install Dolphin NAND choice.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: If bundled setup succeeds without a parseable terminal version, its new fallback cannot obtain a version on a fresh installation, yet records the installation. The recorded state is then rejected as non-current, leaving the successful setup out of date on subsequent checks.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The examined execution and state changes affect the local Flatpak application, its packaged backend executables, and its per-user installation and Dolphin data. The evidence does not establish a new cross-service or elevated-privilege path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Extension readiness uses file-existence checks, while direct WiiCompiled launch separately requires the host file, current install state, and completed reconciliation. These checks do not themselves establish the provenance of a substituted executable.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The version fallback cannot repair a fresh successful bundled install with no parseable result version: its version query returns null before current install state exists. Whether the external setup ever produces that result remains unverified.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Distinguish packaged-host availability from completed first installation when selecting Install versus Update, and require a parseable setup version before committing current install state.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompLinuxInstallService.cs:
- Line 371: Update the bundled-install version resolution around
installedVersion and GetInstalledVersionAsync to query the setup binary’s
version directly without requiring IsInstalled, then reject the install if no
version can be resolved before recording install state.

Review comments at @WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompPaths.cs:
- Around line 38-40: Update Linux status resolution in
RecompLinuxInstallService.HasInstalledHost so the bundled Flatpak setup binary
is not treated as an installed WiiCompiled host. Keep setup-binary availability
separate from installed-host detection so a fresh installation reports
NotInstalled and follows the first-install flow.

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  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Dolphin/DolphinPathResolverTests.cs
  • WheelWizard.Test/Shared/Platform/EnvironmentDependencyTests.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/CustomDistributions/RetroRewind.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/CustomDistributions/RetroRewindBeta.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Dolphin/Discovery/DolphinDiscoveryService.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Dolphin/Paths/DolphinPathLayout.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompEnvironment.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompInstallService.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompLauncher.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompLinuxInstallService.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Recomp/RecompPaths.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ExtensionConfigurationInfo.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/ISettingsServices.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsManager.cs
  • WheelWizard/Models/Enums/ActionButtonStats.cs
  • WheelWizard/Resources/Languages/en.yml
  • WheelWizard/Shared/Platform/RuntimeEnvironmentExtensions.cs
  • WheelWizard/Views/Pages/HomeViewModel.cs
  • WheelWizard/Views/Pages/TestingPage.axaml.cs

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matellush force-pushed the feat/flatpak-extensions branch 2 times, most recently from 9ac0bca to 2baa722 Compare September 29, 2026 23:47
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matellush force-pushed the feat/flatpak-extensions branch from 2baa722 to a014b5d Compare September 30, 2026 00:03
@patchzyy
patchzyy merged commit be52dd7 into main Sep 30, 2026
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patchzyy deleted the feat/flatpak-extensions branch September 30, 2026 19:02
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