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Scour 0.2.0-alpha.7 — Windows installer, all drives, smaller window

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@hasantr hasantr released this 06 Oct 12:44
v0.2.0-alpha.7
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Pre-release. This one is mostly for Windows: the zip now installs itself, indexes every fixed drive, and opens a smaller window. Linux gets the smaller-window controls and the new toolbar icons; nothing else changed there since 0.2.0-alpha.6. The Linux packages were installed in clean Debian 11 and 12, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 and Fedora containers, where the service indexed and found a file and every face answered. The Windows build was tested under Wine, not yet on a Windows machine.

Windows

  • An installer. Unzip and run install.cmd. Scour is copied to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Scour, gets a Start Menu entry and goes on your PATH; no administrator rights are asked for. uninstall.cmd takes it all out again and leaves the index and settings alone.
  • Start with Windows. The first time the window opens it asks whether the service should start when you sign in, so the index stays current.
  • Every fixed drive is indexed, not just C:. USB sticks, DVDs and network drives are left out. A config.toml you already have keeps its sources: delete %APPDATA%\scour\config\config.toml to get the new default.
  • Drive roots show their letter in the list instead of an empty name.
  • The language follows the Windows account's display language.
  • The window no longer brings a console window with it.

Window

  • Smaller by default on Windows, and adjustable everywhere: Ctrl + and Ctrl − zoom the window, Ctrl 0 resets it, and the size is remembered. Borders stay sharp at any zoom.
  • The toolbar under the search field uses drawn icons instead of font symbols, which some systems rendered badly or not at all.

Installing

  • Windows: scour-0.2.0-alpha.7-windows-x86_64.zip, then install.cmd. README.txt (English) and BENIOKU.txt (Turkish) are inside.
  • Linux: the tarball's install.sh needs no password; .deb and .rpm packages carry all seven binaries. The binaries ask for glibc 2.30 at most: Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9 and later.
  • sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS checks the downloads.

Known limits

  • Windows has no USN journal reader yet: searching is instant, the first scan walks each drive and takes a while.
  • Raising an open window, and the file manager's, needs the GNOME extension on Linux. Log out and back in once after installing.
  • The window cannot drag files out; Copy the file and paste does the same. The browser window can.
  • The index format may change between releases.
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