wslu 4.0.0

[patrick330602]

📝 Documentation

• Allow automatic manpage update
• Improve the contribution document

✨ Improvements

• wslu: --debug now usable; could work with --verbose properly now
• wslu: add Gentoo Linux, AlmaLinux, CBL Mariner, and Clear Linux support
• wslact: include new tool "memory reclaim"
• wslclip: brand new CLI (closes Suggestion: a clipboard manager #221)
• wslfetch: add -g, --generic: this force the cli to use the generic WSL theme
• wslfetch: add -t, --theme: you can now provide your logo and color palette to use. also available as conf WSLFETCH_THEME_PATH
• wslfetch: add -o, --options: you can now customize what information to list out. also available as conf WSLFETCH_INFO_SECTION
• wslfetch: add conf WSLFETCH_COLORBAR: allows you to control color bar without passing param
• wslgsu: brand new CLI
• wslsys: add -i, --ip: get current WSL's IPv4 address. (closes Add IPv4 details in wslfetch #139 by Adds ipv4 address to wslfetch #156 )
• wslsys: add -T, --win-system-type: get whether the WSL is running on Desktop or Server
• wslsys: add -n, --name: allow using the name to get the corresponding items
• wslsys: improvement on the speed to start up with a complete rewrite.
• wslusc: add -s, --smart-icon: add smart icon detection. Requires wslpy. can be set with conf WSLUSC_SMART_ICON_DETECTION (closes Use correct Icon for Windows shortcuts instead of generic one #176)
• wslusc: add -d, --shortcut-debug: allows you to view content of the generated shortcuts or any shortcuts
• wslusc: add -N, --native: allows you to generate shortcut using the native Wayland support. can be set with conf WSLUSC_GUITYPE
• wslvar: add configuration WSLVAR_DEFAULT_VARTYPE: this allows you to set default type of variable to get when not specifying option.
• wslview: add -E, --engine: you can now set the default method to start websites/folders/files. can be set with conf WSLVIEW_DEFAULT_ENGINE (closes Does not work with Browser Chooser 2 #167, Is PowerShell necessary for wslview? #197)

💥 Breaking Changes

• wslu: brand new configurations; default configuration located in /usr/share/wslu/conf
• wslu: individual version components are removed; they are hard to track
• wslu: ImageMagick is now a recommended dependency (closes imageMagick as recommended dependency #236 )
• wslact: time-sync is now time-react
• wslfetch: -l, --line and -s, --splash are removed with low usage

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslu: overall improvements on the code style to prevent problematic inputs
• wslview: redesigning the system to improve the detection (closes wslview: opens powershell windows when opening file in GUI application launched from the Start Menu #181)

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This discussion was created from the release wslu 4.0.0.

[vbrozik]

It is great that the dependencies of the package were limited but I am not sure if it will help. In the version 3.2.4-0ubuntu3 the problematic dependencies seems to be x11-utils and pulseaudio-utils. imagemagick is only a suggested dependency in this version (not installed by default).

$ apt show wslu -a
Package: wslu
Version: 3.2.4-0ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Jinming Wu, Patrick <me@patrickwu.space>
Installed-Size: 216 kB
Provides: www-browser
Depends: desktop-file-utils, bc, psmisc
Recommends: pulseaudio-utils, x11-utils
Suggests: imagemagick
Download-Size: 81.3 kB
APT-Sources: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/wslutilities/wslu/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
Description: collection of utilities for Linux Subsystem for Windows (WSL).
 This is a collection of utilities for Linux Subsystem for Windows (WSL), such
 as for converting Linux paths to a Windows paths or creating Linux application
 shortcuts on the Windows Desktop.
 .
 Requires Windows 10 Creators Update and higher.

I noticed that the problem can be resolved by an apt option:
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends wslu
What about moving the recommended dependencies to the suggested category or mentioning this option in the installation instructions?

Please will the 4.x versions be released in the PPA soon?
https://launchpad.net/~wslutilities/+archive/ubuntu/wslu