github fpenezic/ssh-tool v0.95.0

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Added

  • ssh-tool offers to install itself. Run the downloaded binary and it
    asks, once, whether to add itself to your applications menu (Start Menu
    on Windows). Saying yes copies it to ~/.local/bin or
    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ssh-tool, writes the launcher entry and the
    icon, and offers to restart from the installed copy. No root, no
    administrator rights, and the binary stays yours - so the in-app
    updater keeps working, which a system package would take away.
  • Settings > Desktop integration is the permanent home for all of
    this: install, uninstall, the file manager's right-click menu, and the
    ssh-tool:// link handler. They used to be in three different places,
    one of them filed under an import format.
  • A prompt you can turn off. The install question carries a "Don't ask
    again" tickbox, and the same switch lives in Settings. It is asked after
    the vault is open and the tree has loaded - never in the middle of
    something you were typing.
  • It notices when a registration is pointing at the wrong copy. Every
    desktop registration stores an absolute path, so moving the binary
    leaves them launching whatever used to be there - working right up until
    that file is deleted, then failing silently. ssh-tool now reads those
    paths back, says which are stale, and offers to re-point them.
    Installing re-points the ones that already exist automatically. The MCP
    entry is only reported, never rewritten: it lives in Claude Desktop's
    config, not ours.
  • Upgrades are offered as upgrades. Running a newer download while an
    older copy is installed says so, naming the version it would replace -
    rather than asking to "add" an entry that already exists. Without that,
    a launcher still pointing at the old binary quietly undoes the upgrade
    the next time you click the icon.
  • A status-bar badge for problems that persist until fixed, so a stale
    handler is visible without opening Settings. Click it to land on the
    setting that repairs it.
  • Launching a second copy says so. Double-clicking a freshly
    downloaded build while one is already running used to hand over silently
    and exit, which looks exactly like a broken download. It now names the
    version and where it was launched from.

Fixed

  • The window and tray icon on KDE. The desktop entry has to be named
    after the Wayland app-id, which Wails derives as org.wails.ssh-tool -
    the launcher found our entry by other means and drew the icon, while the
    window and tray fell back to a generic placeholder. Read straight off
    the running window, not guessed.
  • The tray tooltip said "wails". The label and the tooltip are
    different properties on Linux, and KDE reads the label.
  • Light/dark now follows the KDE setting. WebKitGTK derives
    prefers-color-scheme from the GTK theme, which KDE does not feed it,
    so the app kept whichever palette it started in. ssh-tool now reads the
    desktop's colour scheme through the xdg portal, and watches for changes
    itself - the upstream watcher listens on the GNOME namespace only, so on
    KDE the signal arrived and was discarded.
  • The updater refuses to overwrite a package-managed install and says
    why, rather than failing on permissions - or worse, succeeding as root
    and having the next pacman -Syu silently undo the update.
  • Development builds never replace your working copy. A build from the
    source tree will not install itself over the one you use, though it can
    still create an entry where none exists.

Notes

  • Distro packages (.deb / .rpm / pacman) build from this repo but are not
    attached to releases yet - the .deb and .rpm have not been installed on
    a real Debian or Fedora machine, and an untested package is worse than
    none. An AUR recipe is ready to publish. See docs/TODO.md.
  • Linux still needs GTK 4 and WebKitGTK 6.0 installed; they are
    deliberately not bundled. The README says which package to install, and
    a missing library now produces an explanation rather than a loader
    error.

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