[Request]: kanata gui &

[lenwhite]

Prerequisites

• [x] I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• [x] Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 100 stars and/or 50 forks)
• [x] English interface (or at least English documentation)
• [x] Latest stable version
• [x] Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• [x] Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

kanata

Description

Kananta is a software keyboard remapper written in Rust.

Homepage

https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/

Download Link(s)

https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/releases/

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

5k stars on github, and also it's already included in scoop with two variants - the cmd variant and the non-cmd variant.

Since it's initial inclusion in https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/pull/11374, it has now included a feature where it can be run in the system tray (https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/pull/990). This is the variant that the average user would use to run kanata (since otherwise it would require a cmd window open all the time). Proposing to add the gui variant packaged together with the non-gui variant (that is to say, installing the default kanata would install both kanata.exe and kanata_gui.exe, and also the same for the cmd variant).

[aliesbelik]

Since it's initial inclusion in https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/pull/11374, it has now included a feature where it can be run in the system tray (https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/pull/990). This is the variant that the average user would use to run kanata (since otherwise it would require a cmd window open all the time). Proposing to add the gui variant packaged together with the non-gui variant (that is to say, installing the default kanata would install both kanata.exe and kanata_gui.exe, and also the same for the cmd variant).

Looks like since version 1.10.0 all the variants are distributed within single .zip so I guess Extras/kanata should be updated which will resolve this request. Wonder if Extras/kanata-cmd could be merge into Extras/kanata as well.

[z-Fng]

Wonder if Extras/kanata-cmd could be merge into Extras/kanata as well.

I completely agree. Perhaps we can follow the manifest renaming process, like https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/pull/16131: first extend Extras/kanata, then indicate in kanata-cmd that the manifest will be deprecated, and finally deprecate the kanata-cmd manifest several months later.