Add Option to sort games by date added to library

[AlexBoXY]

Problem description

I almoust forgot the name of newly added games, when i switch from Store to Library.
So I have to switch back and forth.

Feature description

Add an option to sort games by the Date added to the Library, ascending and descending.
So a can find the new added games on top of the list.

Alternatives

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Additional information

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[Bubu]

I think this is a duplicate of #2091, which was unfortunately closed as "not feasible"

[AlexBoXY]

The old issue wants to sort on the purchase date.
For me it would be perfectly fine to sort by the date when it was added to the HGL library.
I did not dived into the internals of HGL, but i guess the date is avaible somewhere?

[Bubu]

Ah, I didn't realize you were referring to the heroic library instead of the gog (in my case) library.

That actually sounds like a good solution to the problem! If heroic saves that info anywhere. I think even not keeping a strict sort order but showing "newly added" games on top would solve my use-case (and I guess yours too, from the issue description).

[flavioislima]

Heroic does not store this information and if we implement that one day, it will basically put all games on the same day and then the new ones on the day it discover it. Not sure if that is useful.

[AlexBoXY]

I also found out yesterday when i looked at your code.
I looked at the gog api and gog page. There seems to be no way to get the purchase date, at least on gog. i haven't had time to look at epic yet, but i think it looks bad too.
But for my use case, a "newly added" would be sufficient.

[ericchase]

just imagine if you implemented this back then, we'd have a whole year worth of dates added. but instead, we still have nothing

[yoshimo]

Both Epic and GoG record the date of the purchase or when the license was "granted".
Galaxy doesn't expose it and the official Epic Games Launcher only sorts by it but doesn't display it directly.
I therefore think this would be easily possible.