Release Date: 2025-12-06
Major Features
Modlist Selection Gallery
Complete overhaul of modlist selection (First pass):
Core Features:
- Card-based Modlist Selection browser with modlist images, titles, authors and metadata
- Game-specific filtering automatically applied based on selected game type
- Details per card: download/install/total sizes, tags, version, badges
- Async image loading from GitHub with local 7-day caching
- Detail view with full descriptions, banner images, and external links
- Selected modlist automatically populates Install Modlist workflow
Search and Filtering:
- Text search across modlist names and descriptions
- Multi-select tag filtering with normalized tags
- Show Official Only, Show NSFW, Hide Unavailable toggles
- Mod search capability - find modlists containing specific Nexus mods
- Randomised card ordering
Performance:
- Gallery images loading from cache
- Background metadata and image preloading when Install Modlist screen opens
- Efficient rendering - cards created once, filters toggle visibility
- Non-blocking UI with concurrent image downloads
Steam Deck Optimized:
- Dynamic card sizing (e.g 250x270 on Steam Deck, larger on desktop)
- Responsive grid layout (up to 4 columns on large screens, 3 on Steam Deck)
- Optimized spacing and padding for 1280x800 displays
OAuth 2.0 Authentication
Modern authentication for Nexus Mods with secure token management:
- One-click browser-based authorization with PKCE security
- Automatic token refresh with encrypted storage
- Authorisation status indicator on Install Modlist screen
- Works in both GUI and CLI workflows
Compact Mode UI Redesign
Streamlined interface with dynamic window management:
- Default compact mode with optional Details view
- Activity window tab (default), across all workflow screens
- Process Monitor tab still available
- Show Details toggle for console output when needed
Critical Fixes
Replaced TTW Installer
- Replaced the previous TTW Installer due to complexities with its config file
GPU Texture Conversion (jackify-engine 0.4.0)
- Fixed GPU not being used for BC7/BC6H texture conversions
- Previous versions fell back to CPU-only despite GPU availability
- Added GPU toggle in Settings (enabled by default)
Winetricks Compatibility & Protontricks
- Fixed bundled winetricks path incompatibility
- Hopefully fixed winetricks in cases where it failed to download components
- For now, Jackify still defaults to bundled winetricks (Protontricks toggle in settings)
Steam Restart Reliability
- Enhanced Steam Restart so that is now hopefully works more reliably on all distros
- Fixed Flatpak detection blocking normal Steam start methods
Technical Improvements
- Proton version usage clarified: Install Proton for installation/texture processing, Game Proton for shortcuts
- Centralised Steam detection in SystemInfo
- ConfigHandler refactored to always read fresh from disk
- Removed obsolete dotnet4.x code
- Enhanced Flatpak Steam compatdata detection with proper VDF parsing
Bug Fixes
- TTW installation UI performance (batched output processing, non-blocking operations)
- Activity window animations (removed custom timers, Qt native rendering)
- Timer reset when returning from TTW screen
- Fixed bandwidth limit KB/s to bytes conversion
- Fixed AttributeError in AutomatedPrefixService.restart_steam()
Engine Updates
- jackify-engine 0.4.0 with GPU texture conversion fixes and refactored file progress reporting