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Hi everyone,

Following the fantastic feedback and technical insights from the community here, I am happy to announce that v1.1.5 of Deb Progress Installer is now officially live! :rocket:

This update represents a major design shift to make the tool as lightweight, stable, and compliant with your desktop environments as possible.

:artist_palette: The Big Change: 100% Native Styling

Taking your feedback to heart, I have completely removed all custom GTK styling and theme-forcing overrides from the codebase. The application no longer attempts to dictate colors, borders, or layouts. Instead, it fully delegates window styling and transparency handling back to your native system theme and compositor. If you have custom X11/GTK setups or compositor rules, the installer will now cleanly inherit them without any conflict.

:brain: What's New in v1.1.5

Aside from the styling cleanup, this release builds in some powerful package lifecycle features:

  • :counterclockwise_arrows_button: Smart State Detection: If you double-click a .deb file for an application already on your system, the installer detects it and prompts you with a graphical menu to either Reinstall (to fix broken binaries) or cleanly Remove (Purge) the app.
  • :shield: Dependency Simulation: It now runs a silent background audit before executing any changes to alert you of potential system conflicts or missing dependencies early.
  • :package: System Integration: Integrated a standard copyright manifest, the changelog, and a desktop shortcut so the installer shows up cleanly in your application menu.

:inbox_tray: Try it Out / How to Update

For those already running the tool, or if you want to give it a spin, you can fetch and update to the latest build directly from your terminal:

wget -O /tmp/installer.deb $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cybermaxpower/deb-progress-installer/releases/latest | grep -o 'https://[^"]*\.deb' | head -n 1) && sudo apt install /tmp/installer.deb && rm /tmp/installer.deb

You can check out the source code, view the updated README.md (which now features a detailed FAQ for troubleshooting user compositor issues), or download the .deb package manually on GitHub:

:link: GitHub Repository: cybermaxpower/deb-progress-installer

Thank you all again for the constructive criticism, the warm welcome, and for helping me make this tool better! Let me know how the native styling looks on your setups.