Drew Naylor

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Allow the user to display available upgrades and installed packages in a window with a textbox instead of CMD so stuff doesn't disappear.

Did a quick test with listing in a textbox, and it just looks bad. Probably would have to use monospace fonts to make it look ok sometimes, but there's a...

ConsoleControl might work well for terminal output aside from terminal colors.

Doesn't work for winget unless support for ANSI stuff is added.

ConsoleControl might work well for terminal output aside from terminal colors.

PoshConsole may work better, though it hasn't been updated since 2016 and it's under the Ms-PL.

Let add local language support

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but this is something that people who know languages besides English will have to help with to add translations. I also...

Let add local language support

Thanks, I'll have to look into that more, although from what it looks like at first glance, it seems to be mainly for webpages, might not do dotnet (in a...

Generate the current date and time at startup and use it as a "key" to determine if the current instance of guinget is the one that's currently using the package list cache.

This'll have to have a way to allow the user to clear the "key" in case of crashes. Maybe it won't be the best idea.

Add a button that opens a window to show the user a screenshot, like Synaptic.

To reduce bandwidth usage, there should be an option to cache files locally on disk with a button to clear the cache. Storing screenshots in the cache would be on...

Add a button that opens a window to show the user a screenshot, like Synaptic.

I think what can work for the cache invalidation is a button that reloads the image from the server and updates the file in the cache.

Add a button that opens a window to show the user a screenshot, like Synaptic.

Actually, I guess a GitHub Pages site would be a bad idea, as that would increase load on their servers. Thus, Linode (edit: or maybe DreamHost as last I checked...

Use Robocopy and 7zip (or maybe RecursiveExtractor?) to speed up cache updates.

For now this won't be used as there have been major performance improvements already by extracting only manifests and moving the resulting folder instead of copying it. Might use this...