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@theanswertw theanswertw released this 31 Jul 05:10
v0.2.0
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Adds a Simplified Chinese UI and changes the licence from MIT to GPL-3.0.

QQKey is a keyboard launcher for Windows that inserts commands into your prompt instead of
running them. Press Alt+Q in any window, search by command text, English keyword, or your own
language, then Enter — the command lands in the terminal with the caret waiting at the first
parameter. You press Enter yourself.

What's new

  • 简体中文 UI, bringing the interface to 7 languages. The launcher, settings window, tray menu,
    startup-failure dialog and backend error messages all carry it, and all 104 built-in commands are
    described and searchable in every one of the seven.
  • System-locale detection now tells Simplified from Traditional Chinese. zh is the only language
    whose script and region subtags are read: Hans/CN/SG/MY map to zh-Hans, and every other
    zh — including zh-TW, zh-HK, zh-MO and a bare zh — maps to zh-Hant.
  • Searching in one language still finds commands described in another. Built-in entries match against
    the union of all seven languages' keywords, so switching the UI to English does not hide the
    commands you used to find by typing Chinese.
  • Both installers now show the full licence text during installation, and the executable carries a
    copyright notice in its file properties.

Licence change

From this release on, QQKey is licensed under the GNU GPL v3, not MIT. Use it, read it, change
it, run it at work — all fine. But anything you distribute that is built on it has to ship under
GPL-3.0 too, with its source.

Version 0.1.0 was published under MIT. That grant cannot be withdrawn and still covers those
commits; the change applies from 0.2.0 onward. The 0.1.0 installers have been removed from that
release, so the only binaries offered here are GPL-licensed ones.

See the CHANGELOG for the full list.

Install

Windows 10 or 11, x64. Either installer works — the MSI for a plain install, the NSIS setup if you
prefer the smaller download.

The installers are not code-signed, so SmartScreen will show "Windows protected your PC" and
hide the button behind More info → Run anyway. That is what Windows does with any unsigned
binary from a publisher it has not seen before. Verify your download against the hashes below:

File SHA-256
QQKey_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi f6a96ddbc6b8dec80ef53cccef84aa8bf53bc645aac8167388aef1adfbfb2402
QQKey_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe 1ed98e7ab84a8786c64de9435777bec5d29ac84dc9ee2b66c0b1b8cef3e45d8a 
Get-FileHash .\QQKey_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi -Algorithm SHA256

QQKey then lives in the tray with no visible window. Alt+Q opens the launcher, Alt+Shift+Q the
settings window. Start automatically at sign-in is a checkbox in settings, off by default.

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