zsolt3991 / wingetguiinstaller Goto Github PK

This requires toast notifications to be completed

Currently there is no notification if an error occurred, regardless of severity. This proposal would introduce Error message dialogs that are shown for common issues. Implementation should consider respecting the separation of the UI using dialog/popup service.

Support Switching Languages in application settings

• Have a Default - System Option

Main page list does not refresh after operation performed on Package Details page. Applies to Upgrade/List Pages. Possible Search and Recommendations are also affected

The CLI Output does not sort the packages in any given order automatically. This also means that in the UI the packages are in a "random" order which does not provide a great user experience.

The proposal is to have the results sorted by default A-Z by the Name field. Look into making this align with the sorting selected on UI level if any

Notifications show messages like "Package complete" - this is missing the operation name (install|upgrade|uninstall)

When clicking a tag to search the page shown will be the search page while the highlight on the navigation bar will stay on the page from where the package details were navigated to.

Navigation Bar should have Search menu item selected

SelectedCount always considers the highlighted item as selected when no other items were selected. This enables the Install/Upgrade selected functionality. However on calling the action the Id for the highlighed row is not being used and no action takes place.

Ensure any command or argument that is sent to the started shell is sanitized to only contain strings that are relevant for the purpose.

• Remove any unwanted characters such as redirection, command sequencing etc.
• Cleanup any extra whitespace from values

• upgrade application project targets
• upgrade Microsoft.Extensions libraries from 6.0.x to 8.0.x
• update build actions to use .NET 8 SDK version

Advanced functionality should not be offered by default. Behavior to be similar to the way how the console page is hidden/shown

Display the list of tags for a package as clickable buttons that would search for other packages with the tag.

Allow Packages to be excluded from processing and being notified of updates while using the application. This should not affect anything outside the app.

• Consider filtering of the list
• Consider a global enable/disable flag

The Package Details is overlapping the Action Buttons on the Upgrade Page. #76 might be the root cause

Switch text based resources from being stored in code files to a resource based approach. This allows for further actions towards a fully localized app

Implement support for flags supported by search command to search specific metadata only

On Startup always Recommendations are shown. Allow the user to pick any of the pages and respect that on launch

Periodically run in the background automatically updating the installed packages. Should allow configuration:

• On/Off
• Set frequency and time of day
• Blacklisted packages which should be excluded from auto updating

Automatic updates could run as admin to avoid needing UAC consent for every installer. Consider adding a scheduled task in task scheduler as a trigger point

When a package source name is unrecognized all packages from this source will be displayed by default.

This is really visible as an effect of #5, however the Filtering can be more robust by only taking what is enabled rather than eliminating what is disabled

The next step for a localized app involves extracting all currenly in code defined strings also to resources. This complements the first steps where all XAML strings were extracted.

• Remove net7.0 targeting - to be replaced with net8.0 in case of conditional compilation
• Update Target SDK version to Windows 11 21H1 - 10.0.22000.x
• Update Minimum SDK version to Windows 10 2004 - 10.0.19041.x
• Update Build processes to allow building with the changes
• Update/Prepare update of Windows Community Toolkit components
• Re - Release as version 0.2.9.0

Support Application Update in Unpackaged Mode by allowing the download and (optionally extracting) the updates.

Minimum requirements:

• Update check considers that the release is an Unpackaged release and checks the current application plaform
• Update provides a download of the new release to a user defined location, with the user required to extract/overwrite application files

Nice to have:

• Update extraction happens automatically including overwriting the application files after the main app process closes.

Support running application directly from executable. Considerations:

• settings store
• application updates

Continuation

• self contained distribution of WinUI and Runtime

CommunityToolkit 8.x.x.x is available for WinUI, with most functionalities available in the public release. Missing functionality includes

• DataGrid -> DataTable Component is available in experimental form
• StorageHelpers -> The default ApplicationDataStorageHelper was not migrated and needs the applicable interfaces to be implemented manually.

Functionality that is now part of CommunityToolkit:

• Settings Controls - could deprecate the custom ones defined within the app