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@github-actions github-actions released this 17 Aug 01:12
· 25 commits to main since this release
v0.2.4
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The window stopped looking like a Tk utility and started looking like the thing
the website advertises.

Added

  • Rounded corners on the window itself, through DwmSetWindowAttribute on
    Windows 11 and a SetWindowRgn region on Windows 10. The window is
    borderless, which means Windows does not round it for free.
  • The brand mark in the header, in place of a plain bullet. It turns red while
    recording. It is the same drawing as the tray icon, rendered by the app rather
    than loaded from a file.
  • Everything you have dictated stays in the window, newest at the bottom.
  • Developer instrumentation behind the KARA_DEBUG_LOG environment variable,
    timing each step between the key going down and the window saying LISTENING.
    It writes to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kara\trace.jsonl, records durations and device
    names but never what was said, has no network code, and is off unless that
    variable is set.

Changed

  • The main view is flat. No cards, no boxes inside the window: the window is the
    card. Two bordered panels stacked inside one window read as two windows.
  • Sentences you dictated are 11pt and white; the app's own lines are 9pt and
    grey. Ready to use. lost its lime, since it was the brightest thing on
    screen for a line that only means the model finished loading. Failures keep
    their red.
  • The website shows photographs of the real window where it used to animate a
    CSS drawing of an older one.
  • Download links carry the version, so the file that lands in your Downloads
    folder is Kara-Setup-0.2.4.exe rather than an undated Kara-Setup.exe.

Removed

  • The typing animation and its caret. It delayed text that had already been
    pasted into the other window, and then replaced it with the next sentence.
  • The separate history view and the button that opened it, now that the history
    is simply there.
  • The winget manifests, the package submissions, and every mention of winget on
    the site and in the README. The package was never merged and is not being
    pursued.

Download: Kara-Setup-0.2.4.exe — Windows 10 and 11.

Windows will show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box, because the installer is not signed. Click More info, then Run anyway. The install guide walks through it and shows how to check the file's SHA256 against SHA256SUMS.txt below.

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