Several issues and ideas

[Gusfit1]

Thanks for creating the new sections, I'll link to the original conversation here:
isatsam/vfs_explorer#3

I couldn't find a way to create a new PR, I think it needs a valid repo/ branch to compare against, so maybe if you opened a dev branch. Still a bit new to me though so I might be wrong.

I grabbed the svg from the original repo, has some padding though so it looks oddly small next to other apps. Going along with what you were saying, the icon wouldn't even need to be extracted, just change the path in the .desktop file. That or do a wget:

wget --output-document=photoshop.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Adobe_Photoshop_CC_icon.svg

The nice thing about wget is that the icon would be downloaded before creating the .desktop, without needing any PS files or needing to refresh the shell.

[Gusfit1]

I'm just going to continue using this thread to jot some things down.

25.0.7.504 has a few issues, at least on my system. Mainly ui glitches and some slowdowns, like when the file gets loaded with objects.

I had a mean stutter/lag when scrolling and zooming, seems to be a lot smoother after manually installing dxvk and vkd3d:

WINEPREFIX=/home/user/photoshop-on-linux/photoshop2024/ winetricks dxvk vkd3d

This also gave me full green checkmarks for GPU compatibility:

The only issue with this is it introduces an issue with the main ps start up screen glitching into the workspace. It's the most noticable while zooming. Disabling GPU in settings "fixes" this but brings the lag back.

[albakhtari]

My question isn't directly related to your post, but I would like to ask, the PS version you installed, is it the official unmodified one from Adobe?

[albakhtari]

Hello there.

I'm the author of the original repository, and if @isatsam would like to continue to maintain the repository, I can unarchive the original project, merge all changes made by isatsam, and hand them ownership.

I quite like the work they've done on the script.

[isatsam]

Indeed it'd be nice to avoid any mess with having an archived old and working new repo. I'd like to get some changes currently at the dev branch tested and merged to main first (partially so that I could get a grasp of tweaking this project again since I haven't worked on it in awhile), then we could merge them and I'll be glad to take over. :) Thanks!

[albakhtari]

I'm going to unarchive the main repo, and when you're ready create a PR and I'll merge it then hand you ownership.

[isatsam]

Hi @Gusfit1! Good to hear you were able to resolve some of the issues. I've created the dev branch on this repository and pushed some fixes so far. Please try to rebase and see if you can submit a PR to the new branch. (If nothing works out, we should probably just move on right away to merging repos with the original one, per albakhtari's message...)

WINEPREFIX=/home/user/photoshop-on-linux/photoshop2024/ winetricks dxvk vkd3d

I actually wonder if letting PS use the system's dxvk would be better, i.e. instead of installing it ourselves we need to check if user has dxvk installed and notify them if not. Will test it out on my machine.

The only issue with this is it introduces an issue with the main ps start up screen glitching into the workspace. It's the most noticable while zooming. Disabling GPU in settings "fixes" this but brings the lag back.

I'm curious, were you able to utilise the GPU so far otherwise, asides from that issue? In my current setup (PS 2022, AMD iGPU, unchanged since 9 months ago per this repo's commit history), I can enable the GPU, but it will not able to render a document when opening or creating a new one. With the GPU disabled some visual lag is also still common, though mostly just small bits of the document "freezing" until I hide and un-hide the interface with Tab key.

p.s. Sorry for a delayed response! I should now be more available, and will be testing out various improvements to the installer today and tomorrow.

[isatsam]

Just to keep you all updated, I've been pushing a few changes to the dev branch, but am currently struggling with getting OpenCL to be recognised (and on my old/work prefix, the whole GPU recognition broke at some point). I've got an AMD card with open-source drivers, but I might have to switch to the proprietary ones to test everything out. If anyone is willing to test it out as well, I'd appreciate your feedback! Please do specify your GPU, Wine version (wine --version), and PS version.

[albakhtari]

Hi @isatsam. I'll try to test the script out when I have time.
I'm running wine-9.16, and my GPU is an old laptop optimus NVIDIA GeForce 920MX, and I use propitiatory drivers.

Just to be clear, you use the normal Ps installer in the wind prefix created by the script? Or do you copy over pre-installed photoshop files from another installation, correct?

[isatsam]

@albakhtari Great, thank you! I've tried both ways, but the last time I did run the PS installer through the prefix. I've found that just dragging over the main PS folder tends to break some of those older versions of PS from the internet.