WingetUI 1.7.0: Windows Package Manager

WingetUI has made our top Windows Software picks list for the year 2022, and rightfully so. The application brings a user interface to several Windows package managers, including Chocolatey, Scoop and Winget.


The main idea behind the program is to make things easier for users who do not want to run commands from Terminal to install, update or remove applications from their Windows devices.

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UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers - Devolutions/UniGetUI

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New features:​

• A new interface is available to ignore updates. It allows:
  • Pinning packages
  • Skipping a version of a package.
  • Viewing and removing single packages from the blacklist
• The Package Details window has a new section that allows to customize the install:
  • All the options are under a collapsable widget
  • User can modify:
    • Architecture to install
    • Installation environment (user or machine, local or global, etc.)
    • Version to install (can automatically blacklist packages when installed, so older versions don't get updated when installed manually)
    • Custom parameters to pass to the installer. There is now a textbox to be able to do that
  • The Command label has been improved to adapt to the new options and toggles.
• Notifications have been reworked:
  • Notifications will now show buttons on them, to make quick actions easier to reach.
  • Notifications can now be enabled/disabled depending on their category.
• A new, system-integrated share popup has been implemented
• Administrator preferences have been reworked:
  • Package managers can be automatically elevated.
  • The user has the option to cache administrator rights.

Improvements​

• WingetUI Interface has been improved:
  • Context menus have more options, and more organized
  • Toolbars show more relevant actions, removing some redundancies with the context menus
  • Scrolling has been improved, featuring:
    • Smooth mouse scrolling
    • Better support for keyboard scrolling
    • Reurn to top buttons
  • The launch popup has been improved.
  • TreeWidgets StyleSheets have been improved to use more efficiently the space available on the window
  • Transparencies have been reworked across the interface, in a way where the interface is now much more responsive
• Chocolatey support has been improved:
  • Installations won't show a 20-second delay anymore
  • More information is available in the details window
• Scoop support has been improved:
  • Packages are now cached, so loading times are notably faster.
  • More information is available in the details window
  • Error handling has been improved on already-installed updates.
  • Auto-elevation has been improved on uninstalls
• Winget support has been improved:
  • Packages are now cached, so loading times are notably faster.
  • Error handling has been improved on already-installed updates.
  • "Unknown" updates are now properly handled (thanks to the new version skipping feature)

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Ghot said:

Sounds interesting.

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Changelog​

• This release fixes crashes and hangs caused by an incompatiblity between PySide6 and the zroya library.
• It also removes winget empty packages.
• This new version has been compiled on a clean environment, with updated versions of Qt (6.5.0) and Python (3.11.3)

What's Changed​

• Rename 'release notes' to just 'notes' (scoop) by @ppvnf in #963
• Update icons and screenshots from the excel file by @github-actions in #978
• Fixed WinGet reset script for user profiles with spaces by @derula in #986
• Small translation improvements by @panther7 in #982
• Update translations from Tolgee by @github-actions in #989
• Migrate zroya to windows_toasts by @marticliment in #990

Releases · Devolutions/UniGetUI

UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers - Devolutions/UniGetUI

github.com

safron said:

I use Winget regularly, and have been eyeballing this for a while. With 1.7, maybe time to give it a try.
Re "Installation environment (user or machine, local or global, etc.)" I assume this doesn't mean it's possible for the app to be installed to / run from a USB or local D drive - i.e., without impacting the Registry. Has anyone attempted this?

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safron said:

Thank you OAT.
I installed it to a folder on my D drive, but see it has written to the Registry in 5 places in addition to Uninstall (below) so I'd have to say "no" it isn't set up as a "portable" app.

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