The MSI registers both shortcuts with the arguments QET needs to find its
data ("Point directly to qelectrotech.exe with all required arguments"),
but the QElectroTech.Document\shell\open\command registry value was
written without them:
"[INSTALLDIR]bin\qelectrotech.exe" "%1"
Launching from the Start Menu therefore works, while double-clicking a
.qet file does not: Explorer sets the working directory to the document's
folder, and the compiled-in data paths are relative, so nothing is found
there. The most visible symptom is the interface always coming up in
French, because no translation loads and the source strings are French.
Give the file association the same arguments as the shortcuts.
Reported by mr-rfh in #554, who diagnosed it and arrived at exactly this
registry value by hand.
Qt 5.15.x added libxcb-cursor0 as a hard runtime dependency of the xcb
platform plugin (libqxcb.so). The kf5-5-110-qt-5-15-11-core22 content
snap does not bundle this library, so when the snap runs on an Ubuntu 24.04
host the dlopen() of the plugin fails with:
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""
even though it was found.
Staging libxcb-cursor0 from the Ubuntu 22.04 archive satisfies the
dependency without changing the snap base, Qt version, or any other
dependency. No ABI mismatch: the plugin and the staged library are
both built against the core22 (22.04) ABI.
Fixes issue #373.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without a source-tag or source-commit, snapcraft pulls the latest
HEAD of qet_tb_generator-plugin on every build. This makes builds
non-reproducible and risks breakage whenever the upstream repo changes.
Pin to the only published release tag (v1.31, commit d6ee3cf) so
the snap always builds against a known-good version of the plugin.
Closes#202
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
+ AllowSameVersionUpgrades="yes" to <MajorUpgrade>
windows-msi.yml — in the ‘Extract version’ step, calculate a unique GUID
based on the commit’s SHA, then pass -d ‘ProductCode=$productGuid’ to the WIX build
This ensures that each build will have a different ProductCode → MajorUpgrade will always be triggered
- Use SetProperty + WixQuietExec two-step pattern to pass runtime
INSTALLDIR to a deferred CustomAction (fixes WIX1077 and WIX0400)
- Add WixToolset.Util.wixext/7.0.0 extension (required for WixQuietExec)
- Fix condition syntax: collapse multi-line conditions to single line
- Add -ext WixToolset.Util.wixext to wix build command in windows-msi.yml
**`build-aux/windows/QElectroTech.wxs`**
- Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts now point directly to `bin\qelectrotech.exe` with all required arguments (`--common-elements-dir`, `--common-tbt-dir`, `--lang-dir`, `-style windowsvista`) — no `.bat` wrapper needed
- Added a deferred `CustomAction` that runs after `InstallFiles` and recursively sets all files in `elements\` to read-only using an inline PowerShell command
**`.github/workflows/windows-msi.yml`**
- Replaced the step that created `Lancer QET.bat` with a step that removes it from the artifact before the WiX build, so it is not embedded in the MSI
- The `.bat` file remains untouched in the ZIP portable build (managed by `windows-build.yml`)
- No console window flashing when launching QElectroTech from the MSI shortcuts
- The `elements\` directory is properly set to read-only after installation, as required
- Cleaner MSI package — no `.bat` file shipped to end users installing via MSI
Installing build-snaps
Failed to install or refresh snap 'kde-qt5-core22-sdk'.
'kde-qt5-core22-sdk' does not exist or is not available on channel 'latest/stable'.
Use `snap info kde-qt5-core22-sdk` to get a list of channels the snap is available on.
Full execution log: '/root/.local/state/snapcraft/log/snapcraft-20251214-140707.644603.log'
Build failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lpbuildd/target/build_snap.py", line 322, in run
self.pull()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lpbuildd/target/build_snap.py", line 249, in pull
self.run_build_command(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lpbuildd/target/operation.py", line 70, in run_build_command
return self.backend.run(args, cwd=cwd, env=full_env, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lpbuildd/target/lxd.py", line 736, in run
subprocess.check_call(cmd, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
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