bpozdena/OneDriveGUI v2.4.0RC1

v2.4.0 RC1

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OneDriveGUI v2.4.0-RC1 - release candidate for the upcoming OneDrive client v2.5.12. Minimum supported client version stays v2.5.11. The final v2.4.0 will follow the official client release.

What's Changed

Added

• Support for OneDrive client v2.5.12: the GUI now consumes monitor-status.json as the authoritative high-level sync state, detects required resync from the client exit code, reports local Recycle Bin move failures, shows system clock drift warnings and understands the current deletion/rename wording #305
• New client options in profile settings: skip_size, use_device_auth, permanent_delete #305
• 'Sign in with web browser' in the login dialog - the client opens the browser and receives the response itself, no URL copying #274
• New setting 'Stop OneDrive clients when OneDriveGUI exits' (enabled by default). Clients are stopped gracefully with SIGINT, so in-flight transfers complete #267
• OneDriveGUI detects a OneDrive client left running outside of the GUI and offers to take it over #267 #295
• Failed file syncs are now reported with the actual error and a desktop notification; failed transfers are collapsed behind a toggle in the profile view
• Free space shown in the system tray tooltip - good idea @ekolis #309
• New setting 'Remember window size and position' #280
• SharePoint site and library lists are now filterable, which helps with long lists #271
• GUI and client version checks retry every 60 seconds when the network is not yet available at startup, by @nikolainyegaard in #308
• Configurable maximum log file size (default 20 MB)

Fixed

• GUI crash when the resync/auth dialog was the last visible window #297
• Account type detection and persistence for SharePoint shared libraries, by @nikolainyegaard in #304 #271
• Tray icon click raises the unfocused window, by @nikolainyegaard in #302
• Autostart works when the executable is not on PATH, by @nikolainyegaard in #303
• 'Business Shared Folder has been deprecated' message shown without any business shared folders configured #287
• Broken symlinks now show the actual file system error #278
• Corrected tooltips of the advanced sync options #284
• AppImage failing to start with missing libgthread-2.0.so.0 #283
• Version checks compare versions numerically
• Operation timeout can be set above 99 seconds

Packaging

• OneDriveGUI is now a standard Python package, installable with pip and providing the onedrive-gui entry point, by @maikwoehl in #301

New Contributors

• @maikwoehl made their first contribution in #301
• @nikolainyegaard made their first contribution in #302

Note for package maintainers

The source layout changed in v2.4.0. Packages that copy src/*.py and run OneDriveGUI.py directly will break - see #311 for details and advance discussion.

• All modules moved from src/*.py into the onedrive_gui package (src/onedrive_gui/). Running python3 src/OneDriveGUI.py no longer works - the package must be imported, not executed as a script.
• Preferred: build/install the wheel and ship the generated onedrive-gui console script:
  python3 -m pip install --no-deps --root=<pkgroot> onedrive_gui-2.4.0-*.whl
  Use --no-deps and provide PySide6 (Essentials) and requests from your distribution, so pip does not install its own copies.
• Alternative: copy the whole src/onedrive_gui/ directory to a location of your choice and launch with python3 -m onedrive_gui (parent directory on PYTHONPATH). Resources resolve relative to the package, so the location is up to you.
• The version now lives only in src/onedrive_gui/options.py - the build reads it from there.
• The .ui files are not shipped in the wheel, only the compiled ui_*.py modules.

Third-party package broken after upgrade? Workaround for users

• If you use the AUR onedrivegui-git package, consider switching to the onedrivegui release package or the AppImage until the packaging change settles. The -git package builds directly from the main branch and will fail to build once v2.4.0 is merged, while the release package only changes when its maintainer bumps the version.
• If your package updated with a dead launcher, you can fix it without root, and the fix survives package updates:

  mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
  printf '#!/bin/sh\nPYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/OneDriveGUI exec python3 -m onedrive_gui\n' > ~/.local/bin/onedrivegui
  chmod +x ~/.local/bin/onedrivegui
  
  mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
  sed 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=onedrivegui/' /usr/share/applications/onedrivegui.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/onedrivegui.desktop
  

  Adjust the paths if your package installs elsewhere. Just note that python3 OneDriveGUI.py no longer works - the GUI must be started with python3 -m onedrive_gui.
• Or pin/downgrade your distro package to the previous version until the maintainer updates it.
• Or install into your user directory and run the onedrive-gui command (needs PySide6 and requests installed from your distribution):
  python3 -m pip install --user --no-deps https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI/archive/refs/tags/v2.4.0RC1.tar.gz
• Simplest of all: use the AppImage from this release.