Features
- Supporting AUR packages ( see below )
- Now it is possible to enable / disable the packaging technologies via graphical interface using the Application types action in the lower Settings button
- Environment variables / parameters BAUH_FLATPAK (--flatpak) and BAUH_SNAP (--snap) removed in favor of the feature above
- Qt style / theme combo selector ( environment variable / parameter BAUH_THEME (--theme) removed )
- New Launch button: can launch application packages
- New Installed button: quickly retrieves the installed packages without a full refresh ( available after a search )
- Publisher / maintainer column in the packages table
- Extra actions button located in right lower corner
- Package "Name" filter field ( above the packages table )
- Showing the number of packages being shown by the total found in the right lower corner
- Show button for large fields in the Info window
Improvements
- Reading installed Snaps now takes around 95% less time
- Reading Snap suggestions now takes around 75% less time
- Reading installed Flatpaks now takes around 45% less time
- "snap" and "snapd" installation check response time reduced
- Refreshing only the associated package type after a successful operation (uninstall, downgrade, ...) ( installation has a different treatment. See below )
- Only the installed package is displayed after a successful installation
- Progress bar status can now be controlled by the software manager (gem) while an operation is being executed
- Flatpak: showing runtime branches as versions when they are not available
- better internet offline handling
- installation logs are saved at /tmp/bauh/logs/install
- Environment variable / parameter BAUH_UPDATE_NOTIFICATION renamed to BAUH_SYSTEM_NOTIFICATIONS and now works for any system notification
- Environment variable / parameter BAUH_DOWNLOAD_MULTITHREAD: if source files should be downloaded using multi-threads (not supported by all gems).
- Environment variables / parameter BAUH_MAX_DISPLAYED: controls the maximum number of displayed apps ( default to 50 )
- Environment variables / parameter BAUH_LOGS: activates console logging.
- small UI improvements
UI Changes
- Upgrade selected and Refresh buttons now have text labels and new colors
- Updates warning icon removed
- Progress bar height reduced
- Packaging type checkbox filters replaced by a combo box (single select)
- Search bar resized
Fixes
- flatpak: cached app current version
- flatpak: update notification for runtimes with the same name
- flatpak: some warnings are treated as errors after downgrading
- disk loader not filling all requested cached data from the disk
- Ubuntu root password check
- Ubuntu 19.04 pip3 install issue
AUR support (arch gem):
- Search, install, uninstall, downgrade, retrieve history and launch packages
- Faster source files downloads improving installation speed ( see README.md for more information )
- Automatically improves package compilations ( see README.md for more information )
Code
- Code was internally modularized as: api (conceptual classes used to create custom software managers or gems), gems (software managers), commons (common classes shared among the view and gems), view (UI code)
- api allows custom operations so the gems can provide actions that the current GUI does not support (Snap "refresh" was refactored as a custom operation)
Comments
- the application settings are stored in ~/.config/bauh/config.json