Detecting whether Krita comes from a store

[Halla Rempt]

>From a bit of conversation I just caught on IRC: the goal is to distinguish between Krita from stores (paid) and Krita that is free (from our website, aggregators or android store).

It's not important to know whether krita on macos comes from the macos store or steam.

On woensdag 26 juli 2023 12:20:13 CEST Halla Rempt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now we've got the begging banner, we need to make sure that people who already have paid for Krita, only see the banner if we're running a special campaign. So, for each store we need to have a way to figure out if it's a store version of Krita. (I forgot what the rules were on the Android Store, but we still have the small donation link, so the support request might be fine?)
> 
> I've added an empty KisApplication::isStoreApplication method, and that needs fleshing out. 
> 
> So, please, for each of these stores, tell me what diagnistics will work:
> 
> * Windows Store
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> (Check where the executable is? An environment variable? The location of the user data?)
> 
> * Steam Store
> 
> ** Windows
> 
> ** Linux
> 
> * MacOS Store
> 
> 
> For the Epic Store, I'll try to figure it out myself, but that's one of the smallest anyway.
> 
> We really want to have this done before the second beta, so please give this a bit of priority...
> 
> Halla
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