totoshko88/RustConn v0.7.6

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What's Changed

Added

• Flatpak Components Manager — On-demand CLI download for Flatpak environment:

  • Menu → Flatpak Components... (visible only in Flatpak)
  • Download and install CLIs to ~/.var/app/io.github.totoshko88.RustConn/cli/
  • Supports: AWS CLI, AWS SSM Plugin, Google Cloud CLI, Azure CLI, OCI CLI, Teleport, Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, Boundary, Bitwarden CLI, 1Password CLI, TigerVNC
  • Python-based CLIs installed via pip, .deb packages extracted automatically
  • Install/Remove/Update with progress indicators and cancel support
  • SHA256 checksum verification (except AWS SSM Plugin which uses "latest" URL)
  • Settings → Clients detects CLIs installed via Flatpak Components

• Snap Strict Confinement — Migrated from classic to strict confinement:

  • Snap-aware path resolution for data, config, and SSH directories
  • Interface connection detection with user-friendly messages
  • Uses embedded clients (IronRDP, vnc-rs, spice-gtk) — no bundled external CLIs
  • External CLIs accessed from host via system-files interface

Changed

• Flatpak Permissions — Simplified security model:

  • Removed --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak (no host command access)
  • SSH available in runtime, embedded clients for RDP/VNC/SPICE
  • Use Flatpak Components dialog to install additional CLIs

• Snap Package — Strict confinement with host CLI access:

  • Added plugs for ssh-keys, personal-files, system-files
  • Data stored in ~/snap/rustconn/current/
  • Smaller package (~50 MB) using host-installed binaries

• Settings → Clients — Improved client detection display:

  • All protocols (SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE) show embedded client status
  • Blue indicator (●) for embedded clients, green (✓) for external
  • Fixed AWS SSM Plugin detection (was looking for wrong binary name)

Improved

• UI/UX — GNOME HIG compliance:

  • Accessible labels for status icons and protocol filter buttons
  • Sidebar minimum width increased to 200px
  • Connection dialog uses adaptive adw::ViewSwitcherTitle
  • Toast notifications with proper priority levels

• Thread Safety — Mutex poisoning recovery in FreeRDP thread

Fixed

• RDP Variable Substitution — Global variables now resolve in username/domain fields

Refactored

• Dialog Widget Builders — Reusable UI components (CheckboxRowBuilder, EntryRowBuilder, SpinRowBuilder, DropdownRowBuilder, SwitchRowBuilder)
• Protocol Dialogs — Applied widget builders to SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE panels
• Legacy Cleanup — Removed unused TabDisplayMode, TabLabelWidgets types

Documentation

• New: docs/SNAP.md — Snap user guide with interface setup
• Updated: docs/INSTALL.md, docs/USER_GUIDE.md

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo dpkg -i rustconn_0.7.6_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora

sudo dnf install rustconn-0.7.6-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm

AppImage

chmod +x RustConn-0.7.6-x86_64.AppImage
./RustConn-0.7.6-x86_64.AppImage

openSUSE (OBS)

Packages available at: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:totoshko88:rustconn/rustconn

# Tumbleweed
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ rustconn
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper in rustconn

# Leap 16.0
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/16.0/ rustconn
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper in rustconn