RedBearAK/Toshy Toshy_v25.08.0 on GitHub

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Complete refactor of GUI app from single script into multi-module Python package
Port refactored tkinter Preferences app GUI to GTK-4 (dependencies unchanged)
GTK-4 app updated to have feature parity with tray icon indicator app menu^
Expanded the list of files checked by toshy-versions script for revision dates
Mac startup sound/boot chime script warns re: low volume values (may be inaudible)
Install icons the more correct way, in hicolor theme folders (freedesktop spec)
Reduce ram usage, maybe? (by using exec to drop extra shell layers)^^
Improve some process names (also from using exec to drop extra shell layers)
Add script to install necessary shell extensions in GNOME automatically [UNTESTED]
Added toshy-reinstall command (starts bootstrap script, offers to reinstall)

^ For those who can't (or don't want to) run the GTK-3 tray indicator app, the new refactored and ported GTK-4 Toshy Preferences app has controls for all the same preferences, options and actions that have previously only been fully available in the tray icon menu. The ported Preferences app uses the same gi.repository as the indicator app, so there were no new packages or Python imports required to make it work. The Preferences app will now work on Linux distros that don't have a Python tkinter package available (e.g., Chimera).

^^ It's possible the reduced RAM usage might make Toshy have less of an issue on a very low-memory system. Hard to say. Having a multi-core CPU vs. single or dual-core has more of an impact in most cases that I've seen. But those extra shell layers could be using anywhere from 30-100MB each while apparently doing nothing but waiting for the process they launched to exit.

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Ensure jpeg dev headers on RHEL and Fedora by @RedBearAK in #674
Remove type hints: Avoid issues w/Python 3.6/3.14+ by @RedBearAK in #675
Refactor: toshy_common (lib) toshy_gui (GTK4) by @RedBearAK in #677
Add check for 'bc', version argument by @RedBearAK in #678
Add version to more common modules by @RedBearAK in #679
Save theme mode setting correctly by @RedBearAK in #680
Clean up, sync GUI features with tray icon app by @RedBearAK in #681
Disable services autostart checkbox if no systemd by @RedBearAK in #682
Better logging of pkg install on apk distros by @RedBearAK in #683
Nicer logging of skipped packages messages by @RedBearAK in #684
Show alert about love startup sound volume by @RedBearAK in #685
Reduce RAM use, better process names by @RedBearAK in #686
Pkg fixes, icon fix, 'toshy-reinstall' added by @RedBearAK in #687
Suppress or warn about GTK/Adw/a11y/AT-SPI errors by @RedBearAK in #688
Prevent more error messages, Tk 9 exception by @RedBearAK in #689
Remove stray toshy-tray shell file (same as main) by @RedBearAK in #690
Update safety of dev_beta reset script (like main) by @RedBearAK in #691
Add test GNOME extension install script by @RedBearAK in #692

Full Changelog: Toshy_v25.07.0...Toshy_v25.08.0

RedBearAK/Toshy Toshy_v25.08.0 Toshy v25.08.0 on GitHub

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