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Scour 0.2.0-alpha.9 — the icon is back

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@hasantr hasantr released this 09 Oct 05:20
v0.2.0-alpha.9
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Pre-release. The window shows Scour's icon in the dock and the task bar again. Since 0.2.0-alpha.2 the window did not tell the desktop its name, so GNOME and Ubuntu drew a gear and KDE a generic "W". Tested in Fedora 44 GNOME and KDE live sessions; the packages were also installed in clean Debian 11 and 12, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 and Fedora containers. Everything in 0.2.0-alpha.8 is here too, including the service starting with every session.

Window

  • The dock, the task bar and the window switcher show Scour's icon. The window now sets its Wayland app id, which a call made too early had been silently failing to do.
  • The menu entry names the window, so KDE matches it as GNOME does.

Browser face

  • On Fedora and RHEL it opens in Chromium, which those systems install as chromium-browser. It used to fall through to Firefox.
  • Firefox works when it is the only browser. It refused to start, because its profile was made only after it was started; it also has a profile of its own now.
  • A hidden menu entry gives the browser window Scour's icon. On KDE the task bar still shows Chromium's: Chromium moves itself into a systemd scope of its own, and Plasma matches that first. The title bar shows Scour's.

Installing

  • .deb and .rpm packages, all seven binaries; the service starts with each session from the next login. The tarball's install.sh needs no password.
  • The Linux binaries ask for glibc 2.30 at most: Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9 and later.
  • Windows: the zip, then install.cmd. Only the version changed there.
  • sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS checks the downloads.

Known limits

  • On KDE Plasma the browser face's task bar entry shows Chromium's icon.
  • After installing a package, logging out and straight back in may not start the service if the session's processes have not all ended (seen on Xfce); restarting does. The window starts it in the meantime.
  • Raising an open window, and the file manager's, needs the GNOME extension on GNOME. Log out and back in once after installing.
  • The index format may change between releases.
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