The fork takes its own name everywhere a user can see it: binaries
(voculinux, voculinux-gui), desktop entry, autostart, tray, D-Bus
namespace (com.voculinux.Voculinux, no alias for the old name),
config/data/cache dirs, single-instance lock, IBus engine identity,
tray icons, resource prefixes, VOCULINUX_* environment names, and the
update-checker user agent. The internal Python module stays vocalinux
and the distribution metadata keeps the upstream URLs as provenance.
On first run a previous Vocalinux install's config.json, custom
dictionary, and portal restore token are copied once into the new
locations (new config always wins, no merge, no write-back); models
re-resolve through the pinned-checksum download path. An offline
naming-sweep test proves no old-name strings remain on user-visible
surfaces outside the allowlist.
Refs #18
* chore(deps): allow uv versions below 0.14
* fix(ci): align uv version and generated exports
* fix(dev): check Fedora build headers and AppImage GI bundle
Fail early with distro-specific native dependency hints before dev sync. Verify the AppImage's PyGObject installation and Python path after linuxdeploy, and report isolated GI import failures with actionable path diagnostics. Guard the CI uv pin and cover both preflights with tests.
* fix(packaging): build pywhispercpp at the portable x86-64 baseline
Every packaged channel shipped a libggml-cpu compiled for AVX2+FMA:
the manylinux PyPI wheel itself carries -mavx2 -mfma -mbmi2 code, so
any package that bundles it dies with SIGILL when whisper.cpp loads a
model on a pre-Haswell CPU (the reporter's i5-3337U). GGML_NATIVE=OFF
alone is not the portable baseline either; while the native default
is on, ggml turns every GGML_* SIMD option on, so each is pinned off.
- Snap: force the sdist (PIP_NO_BINARY) with the flag floor via
CMAKE_ARGS in the part's build-environment.
- Flatpak: extend the module's CMAKE_ARGS with the same floor.
- Native .deb/.rpm: the build still vendors the wheels, then rebuilds
libggml-cpu alone from the same hash-pinned sdist and swaps it into
the vendored copies, asserting no AVX/FMA survives; the container
image gains cmake, g++, make and binutils.
- AppImage: extract the pinned-sdist reinstall into a shared helper
and route every CPU-only fallback of the Vulkan path through a new
baseline rebuild at the same floor; the Vulkan compile keeps its
own flags via the same helper. Keeping the wheel on those paths was
the bug's exact binary.
Fixes#957
* style(tests): apply black/isort to the new packaging guards
* fix(native): keep the wheel's libggml providers, alias its base/gomp sonames
Swapping the whole libggml set for the baseline build broke the import
smoke: the wheel's auditwheel-mangled core lib doubles as the
extension's __cxa_call_terminate provider, and its NEEDED entries are
the mangled names. Swap only libggml-cpu, and satisfy the baseline
library's own unmangled NEEDEDs (libggml-base.so.0, libgomp.so.1) with
aliases of the vendored copies, which carry no generated SIMD and are
the same upstream version. Fail closed when the vendored set has
restructured instead of silently shipping the AVX2 wheel.
* fix(packaging): fail builds that lose the speech engine, unblock the ISA assert
Greptile findings on the baseline work:
- A failed baseline rebuild in the AppImage returned success after
remove_appdir_pywhispercpp, so the bundle would ship with no speech
engine at all while logging that the wheel was kept. Propagate the
failure through every CPU-only fallback so the build stops instead.
- The native libggml-cpu assertion used grep -q under pipefail, where
grep's early exit SIGPIPEs objdump and the pipeline reports a miss,
letting an AVX2 library through. Read the full disassembly instead.
* fix(installer): build pywhispercpp from sdist on the CPU path
install_cpu_pywhispercpp let pip pick the manylinux wheel, whose
libggml-cpu is compiled for AVX2+FMA and SIGILLs on pre-Haswell CPUs
(#957). Pass --no-binary pywhispercpp like the Vulkan/CUDA paths so the
sdist compiles against this machine's own instruction set.
* fix(installer): install C++ toolchain on distros that ship without one
Forcing the pywhispercpp sdist on the CPU path needs a compiler, and the
fedora, mageia, alpine, void and solus package maps did not request one.
Add gcc-c++/make (rpm), build-base (alpine), base-devel (void) and
gcc/g++/make (solus) so source installs compile on minimal systems.
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>
* fix(appimage): reuse the Vulkan pywhispercpp build across CI runs
The x86_64 Build AppImage step spends most of its time recompiling
pywhispercpp with Vulkan. That compile depends on the base image,
tool_checksums.txt, and the pywhispercpp pin, not on the commit.
Cache the native tree under one key shared by CI, Nightly, and Release.
* fix(appimage): reject a partial Vulkan cache and key the build tools
A failed copy could leave a tree that still contained libggml-vulkan.so,
and the next run would reuse it. Check each copy, and keep the previous
cache until the new one is in place.
The cache id now also covers the pinned cmake and ninja export and the
Vulkan compile flags. The hit path is what the build calls, and a test
runs it with a stub compile command.
* chore(ci): rerun AppImage against the saved Vulkan cache
The review fix changed the native cache id, so run 37586979294
compiled pywhispercpp again and saved
appimage-native-X64-ebf478b87986e2f6b9d80c97c2f5869fe3120c2bcd48f5d8f5a65fe06ec03015.
This commit leaves the base image, tool checksums, pywhispercpp pin,
installer tool pins, and Vulkan compile flags alone.
* feat(settings): run local VocaGateway from Speech Engine (podman-first)
Add an optional Local VocaGateway panel next to Remote Server so Linux users
can start the pinned v0.1.0 compose project with podman (docker fallback),
watch Live/Pairable/Ready status, pair a phone without loopback QR URLs, and
preset remote_api to the gateway transcriptions endpoint. Stop preserves
volumes; Flatpak fails closed; tray offers Stop only when this session manages
the gateway. Default on-device engine stays whisper.cpp.
* fix(gateway-embed): drop nonexistent compose cpu profile
VocaGateway v0.1.0 exposes default service gateway plus native/cuda/vulkan
profiles, not cpu. Start and stop the default service without --profile, keep
the latest image pin rejection, and prefer save_config for the remote_api preset.
* fix(gateway-embed): keep compose --profile cpu per embed contract
v0.1.0 has no cpu profile entry, but Compose still starts the unprofiled
gateway service when --profile cpu is set, and keeps cuda/vulkan/native off.
That matches the frozen desktop embed contract and stays forward-compatible.
* fix(gateway-embed): harden embed path for settings and compose
Keep podman/docker probing off the GTK thread, reject link-local and
loopback public URLs for phone QR, sanitize compose .env image overrides,
and cap bootstrap token reads so a hostile file cannot blow memory.
* fix(gateway-embed): keep LAN toggle and phone QR in sync
When Allow LAN flips while compose is already managed, rewrite publish
host and PUBLIC_URL and recreate the gateway before Pairable comes back.
Also reject default docker/podman bridge addresses for phone QR.
* test(gateway-embed): pin bridge and LAN-gate pairing cases
Cover 172.17.0.2 / link-local not becoming Pairable, and the mid-run
LAN toggle path that must wait for compose republish before advertising
a phone URL.
* style(gateway-embed): black format embed modules
* fix(gateway-embed): reject short-form loopback and localhost.* for QR
Align Pairable/QR host checks with vocagateway desktop-embed policy so
127.1 / localhost.* never become phone-reachable display URLs.
* fix(gateway-embed): detach Settings status listener on destroy
Gateway poll callbacks were left registered after Settings closed, so
idle_add could touch destroyed GTK widgets while compose stayed up.
* fix(gateway-embed): pass host_env to bridge ip probe
_bridge_iface_ips shells out to host ip; without host_env the AST
gate fails and AppImage bundles can hand the wrong GLib to ip.
* fix(packaging): ship gateway_embed in the AppImage
The explicit setuptools packages list omitted the new package, so the
bundle booted from source trees but died with ModuleNotFoundError on
every distro boot test.
* style(packaging): black the gateway_embed package guard
* fix(settings): pack local VocaGateway into the Advanced island
The rebase onto main auto-merged textually onto the simple Speech Model
page. Keep the gateway card on advanced_box, next to Remote Server.
* fix(gateway-embed): treat missing Compose as unavailable
When podman or docker is present but Compose is not, stop advertising Run.
Return empty compose_args, show an install-Compose hint, and cover it with a unit test.
Also add module loggers on the new gateway_embed modules and annotate the
gateway Settings/tray callbacks Greptile flagged. just lock found no lockfile drift.
* fix(gateway-embed): keep Allow LAN bind matched to the switch
Snapshot the LAN flag for start/republish, record what compose actually
got, then republish again if the switch moved mid-flight so 0.0.0.0 never
lingers while Allow LAN reads off.
* fix(gateway-embed): detect leftover compose after Quit
Quit does not stop compose, so a LAN-published gateway can keep running.
Settings and the tray treated that as Stopped because managed_by_us is
only process memory. Probe compose after runtime detection, show Stop
when it is actually up, and let Stop work even if this session did not
start it.
* fix(gateway-embed): restore LAN switch from leftover compose
Quit leaves compose running, so the next launch now reads
VOCAGATEWAY_PUBLISH_HOST from the embed .env, adopts the project as
managed, and keeps Allow LAN honest so republish can close 0.0.0.0.
* fix(gateway-embed): restore .env if LAN republish fails
compose recreate can fail after write_env_file already pointed
VOCAGATEWAY_PUBLISH_HOST at loopback. Restore the previous .env so
orphan adopt still sees a live 0.0.0.0 bind, and snap Allow LAN back
to the running publish mode.
* style(gateway-embed): type helper args and black MagicMock
* refactor(types): move Readable protocol to common_types
AGENTS.md keeps Protocol interfaces in common_types. Pairing now imports
the shared Readable surface instead of a local _Readable helper.
* fix(gateway-embed): satisfy mypy on rebased embed code
* fix(audio): keep duck restore point when a set reports failure
* feat(ui): add floating glowing dictation overlay
Show a bottom-center non-focus overlay while recognition is LISTENING
or PROCESSING so users get a clear visual cue beyond the tray icon.
Optional GtkLayerShell on Wayland; plain always-on-top GTK fallback
elsewhere. Configurable via ui.show_overlay (default on) and Settings.
* fix(test): isolate dictation overlay tests from GTK pollution
Overlay unit tests no longer construct real GTK windows or import
tray_indicator, which was loading gi.repository early and breaking
later tests that mock GI (single-instance and suspend GLib checks).
* docs: add dictation overlay screenshots
Capture the floating glowing orb in listening (green) and processing
(amber) states for the PR and README screenshots section.
* test(ui): raise dictation overlay coverage for Codecov patch gate
Exercise GTK init, draw/animation, positioning, layer-shell fallbacks,
tray overlay wiring, settings toggle, and config edge cases so patch
coverage on the floating overlay clears the 80% Codecov target.
* test(tray): call overlay helpers via unbound methods
Avoid instance-level MagicMock shadowing of set_overlay_enabled under
some import/mock orderings (seen on CI Python 3.10).
* test(tray): inject explicit config mock for overlay helpers
Assign a MagicMock config_manager on the instance so assertions do not
depend on the constructor patch (which can leave a real ConfigManager
under some Python versions / import orders).
* refactor(ui): ponytail pass on dictation overlay
Drop the hand-drawn mic glyph, simplify the Cairo clear/pulse path,
reuse ConfigManager get_bool/set, tighten tray overlay helpers, and
delete string-grep structural tests that proved nothing.
* fix(ui): pin overlay to bottom strip and stop stealing focus
Use a full-width bottom strip (layer-shell left/right/bottom anchors, or
resize+move fallback) so the orb is bottom-center on Wayland. Map the
window once and toggle opacity instead of hide/show so compositors do not
re-activate it and yank focus out of the editor (which broke IBus inject).
* fix(appimage): seed GtkLayerShell typelib for dictation overlay
* fix(ui): address greptile findings on dictation overlay
* fix(appimage): keep layer-shell typelib optional for direct builds
* build(appimage): pin the interpreter, packages and tooling
* ci(appimage): build inside a pinned ubuntu 22.04 image
* test(appimage): guard the pins and the base image
* docs: state the AppImage glibc floor
* fix(appimage): bundle libibus with its typelib
* ci(appimage): let the container run the isolated GI smoke test
* fix(appimage): keep the bundle's libraries out of host binaries
* fix(appimage): bundle libgpg-error with the libgcrypt that needs it
* docs(agents): require host_env() for spawned binaries
* ci: run the AppImage jobs when its other inputs change
* fix(appimage): check every bundled typelib, not just the seeded ones
* fix(ibus): keep the bundle when respawning our own interpreter
* fix(injection): pass host_env() to setxkbmap and notify-send
* test(ibus): wait for the IBus warmup thread before asserting
* fix: leftover engine repair, just --no-sync, and ggml verify from #713#713 only rewrote a broken config.json toward whisper_cpp, so a reinstall
that kept the old engine still died when vosk was the extra that installed.
verify_configured_engine now prefers SELECTED_ENGINE, then any working extra,
and the vosk fallback rewrites an existing file.
just recipes use uv run --no-sync so they do not prune extras from
just deps-all. CONTRIBUTING lists libgirepository-2.0-dev for Ubuntu 24.04.
An unverified ggml file is not loaded if unlink fails, and an unpinned name
is refused rather than deleted.
* fix(appimage): retry tooling downloads on curl reset
* fix(build): bootstrap .venv for --no-sync just recipes and cover the contributor path in CI
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Silaev <hello@8am.dev>
Stable minor since v0.15.0. Bumps version to 0.16.0 across app, web, AUR, and Flatpak AppStream, and refreshes docs, changelog, and SECURITY.
Tag v0.16.0 after this lands on main.
* feat(ui): About page for this app, VocaHQ, and talk to us
Settings About now has three groups. Vocalinux keeps the existing icon,
version, AGPL-3.0, updater, and What's New. The website button opens
vocalinux.com.
Part of VocaHQ lists the family sites with PRODUCT.md status. Talk to us
opens GitHub issues, Discord, X, and email. Official Design marks from
VocaHQ/.github are vendored as-is and painted with iron-white ink.
* fix(ui): unique About Open names and pin Design SVG hashes
Open buttons on About still say Open. Each one now uses its tooltip as
the accessible name so a screen reader can tell vocahq.com from
vocalinux.com from Latest Release.
The Talk-to-us SVG test pins sha256 of the four official marks from
VocaHQ/.github 61c8eee.
* fix(ui): circular app icon and About source code link
The launcher and About header used the square teal fill. Switch
both to the circular family logo (voca-logo.svg). Website stays
vocalinux.com; Source code next to it opens the GitHub repo.
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp to the version install.sh declares
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp at both install sites
* test(docs): match AGENTS.md uv.lock wording
#727 dropped "unused until those phases land". The test still
looked for that line, so any PR that runs Python tests against
current main failed. Pin the current contract instead: uv.lock
is authoritative, and requirements/*.txt are not hand-edited.
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Silaev <hello@8am.dev>
* fix(whisper): use bundled GPU libs and skip software Vulkan devices
AppImage 0.15.0 shipped a CPU-only pywhispercpp wheel, so the Settings
GPU picker and host vulkaninfo never moved inference off the CPU. Rebuild
pywhispercpp with Vulkan in the AppImage, log the libraries that actually
load, skip llvmpipe in auto-select, and document how to verify.
Fixes#604
* fix(appimage): pin gcc/g++ for Vulkan pywhispercpp rebuild
Hosts that default cc/c++ to clang fail CMAKE's C++ test because clang
does not search gcc's libstdc++ path. Default the rebuild to gcc/g++.
* fix(appimage): ship transitive GI typelibs for non-Debian hosts
The 0.15.0 AppImage pruned girepository down to a partial allowlist and
dropped xlib/Dbusmenu/GModule. On Ubuntu the missing typelibs fell back
to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0; on openSUSE/Fedora that
path does not exist, so Gtk failed to import and startup reported
missing GTK3/AppIndicator (#585).
Keep linuxdeploy's typelib extras, seed the full transitive set, bundle
AppIndicator/Notify shared libs, and smoke-test GI imports with host
typelibs hidden.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* style(test): format appimage packaging regression test
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ci): avoid libappindicator/ayatana apt conflict
Ubuntu packages libappindicator3-1 and libayatana-appindicator3-1
conflict. Rely on gir1.2-* to pull a single implementation and keep
libdbusmenu/libnotify explicit for bundling.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ci): install gir1.2-dbusmenu-glib for AppImage typelib seed
Dbusmenu-0.4 is a required transitive typelib for AppIndicator; without
the GIR package the build fails the required-typelib check.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): require only one AppIndicator typelib variant
Runtime accepts AppIndicator3 or AyatanaAppIndicator3. Treat them as
alternates in the AppImage typelib check so single-stack build hosts
do not fail require_all.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): prefer Ayatana after rebase onto main
Align AppImage typelib seeding and GI smoke order with main's
Ayatana-first tray preference from #621/#638.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(appimage): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 typelib
Match tray_indicator.py's three-step fallback so AppImage builds and
GI smoke succeed on hosts that only ship AyatanaAppindicator3-0.1.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(main): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 in dep check
Align check_dependencies with tray_indicator.py and the AppImage GI
smoke path so a lowercase-only typelib host does not fail at startup.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(ui): AppImage smoke fixes for tray icons, labels, and identity
Replace placeholder mic tray SVGs with opaque branded icons, show
whisper.cpp instead of Whisper_cpp, set GLib/AppIndicator identity to
Vocalinux (not main.py), and give About dialog buttons enough padding
so labels are not clipped under Adwaita.
* fix(packaging): harden AppImage build for Wayland and tray deps
Pin the build interpreter, install onnxruntime into the bundle, set
desktop Exec=AppRun + StartupWMClass, prune typelibs to an allowlist
after linuxdeploy, and stop forcing GDK_BACKEND=x11 on Wayland
(VOCALINUX_FORCE_X11=1 remains as an escape hatch). CI AppImage jobs
also pull Ayatana AppIndicator and librsvg SVG loader packages.
* fix(packaging): bundle full stdlib from base_prefix in AppImage
When build.sh runs under a venv, sys.prefix only has site-packages, so
the AppImage was missing encodings and crashed on start. Copy the
interpreter and stdlib from sys.base_prefix, force pip
--ignore-installed into AppDir, set Gdk program class to Vocalinux, and
tone down the muted tray slash so small StatusNotifier icons stay slate.
* fix(tray): use absolute icon paths so stale hicolor icons lose
XFCE StatusNotifier resolves IconName through the system theme and can
ignore IconThemePath. A leftover ~/.local/share/icons placeholder
(vocalinux-microphone-off.svg filled #e74c3c) was winning over the
AppImage's bundled icons. Outside Flatpak, pass absolute SVG paths to
set_icon_full / new_with_path instead of bare theme names.
* feat(packaging): add self-contained AppImage build
Bundles the wheel plus PyGObject/GTK3/AppIndicator/IBus typelibs into a
relocatable x86_64 AppImage via linuxdeploy + linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk, so
users get a zero-install, no-sandbox-negotiation alternative alongside
AUR/PyPI. Wired into nightly and tagged releases, plus a smoke-test job
in the PR pipeline since AppImage/ELF bundling can't be verified on a
macOS dev machine.
* feat(packaging): add aarch64 AppImage builds
Parameterizes build.sh on uname -m instead of hardcoding x86_64 (both
linuxdeploy and appimagetool publish aarch64 continuous builds, and
pywhispercpp ships manylinux_aarch64 wheels, so no from-source compile
needed). Adds an arch matrix to the PR smoke-test job, and a second
job in nightly.yml/release.yml that builds on GitHub's free
ubuntu-24.04-arm hosted runner and attaches the aarch64 AppImage to
the same release the x86_64 job already created.
soubarnak