Gengchou v2.5.3

Gengchou v2.5.3

v2.5.3 is about one thing: a release you already have the right to was, until
now, something you had to go looking for. The daily update check found new
versions on its own and then said so in one place - the version entry inside
the Settings submenu, two levels into a right-click menu nobody opens
unprompted. A version could sit there unnoticed for as long as you never went
looking.

The executable, settings-directory, cache, and update identities are unchanged,
and nothing about how updates are downloaded, verified, or applied has changed.

Changes

• Say when an update is available. A check that nobody asked for now raises a
  silent balloon from Gengchou's own tray icon, naming the version. It is
  announced once per version: the check repeats every 24 hours, and repeating
  the announcement with it would be nagging. Restarting does not re-announce
  either, because the answer that decides this is the one already on disk. A
  check you start from the menu is unchanged - it still answers in the dialog
  it always did, not in a balloon.
• Click the balloon to update. Before this, the notification could be seen but
  not acted on; you still had to find the menu entry. Clicking it now asks
  whether to update, and yes takes the same route the menu entry takes.
  Unlike that entry - whose text, "Update to X", is already the answer - the
  balloon asks first, because a notification body is easy to hit by accident.
  A click that arrives after the banner has gone is rechecked against what is
  true then rather than acted on from the balloon's claim, for as long as this
  process still holds the offer. After a restart, or after that offer was
  already answered, a later click does nothing; quota-reset and other news
  balloons are the same. Missing the banner is still free: the footer is the
  place you look. On Windows 11 26200 the taskbar notification-centre flyout
  did not keep that toast after it timed out; Settings → System →
  Notifications did.
• Keep the news where you actually look. The detail popup's footer reported the
  running version and said nothing about the one waiting; it now reads
  v2.5.2 → 2.5.3 while an update is outstanding, including after a restart,
  which is exactly when someone who missed the balloon comes looking. A
  remembered offer that is not newer than the running build is treated as up
  to date, so a successful apply does not leave the footer advertising the
  version just installed. A failed automatic check does not clear the last
  successful offer, and does not cause that version to be announced again.
  With no update outstanding the footer is unchanged, to the pixel.
• Act on it where you read it. That footer line is itself the button: it
  underlines under the pointer and asks the same question the balloon asks.
  Reading that an update exists and then having to close the popup and walk two
  levels into a tray menu to take it was the same gap as before, moved one
  surface along. The Settings entry still works and remains the keyboard
  route.