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Type of Change

  • New feature
  • Bug fix
  • Documentation update
  • Refactor
  • UI/UX improvement

Description

This PR expands the WinUtil application catalog and improves package detection and Winget handling.

Application Catalog

  • Added 33 new applications across the existing WinUtil categories.
  • Added Google Antigravity IDE using its verified Winget package.
  • Added and verified Chocolatey mappings where reliable packages are available.
  • Kept the existing application catalog structure and categories.
  • Removed Super Productivity because its currently referenced Winget installer returns HTTP 404.

Package Management Improvements

  • Added a safe Winget uninstall fallback for the 0x8A150014 source-metadata failure.
  • Added Winget detection fallback for applications that do not have a Chocolatey mapping.
  • Preserved the existing Chocolatey-preferred behavior where a valid Chocolatey package is available.

Compatibility and Testing

  • Improved Pester test compatibility with Windows PowerShell 5.1.
  • Compile validation passes successfully.
  • Pester: 832/832 tests pass.
  • Winget detection/execution paths were validated.
  • Chocolatey metadata was validated.

Known Limitations

Real Chocolatey installation/uninstallation testing could not be performed in the development environment because administrative elevation was unavailable.

VLC uninstall behavior was also observed to hang at the Winget/installer/elevation level. No unsafe package-specific workaround was introduced.

Validation

  • .\Compile.ps1 — PASS
  • Pester — 832/832 PASS
  • PowerShell 5.1 compatibility — validated
  • PowerShell 7+ compatibility — validated
  • Winget paths — validated
  • Chocolatey metadata — validated
  • Working tree — clean

No unrelated application catalog changes or unrelated refactors are included in this PR.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Expanded the application catalog with many additional desktop, development, media, productivity, and utility applications.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved application removal when the initial package-source lookup cannot find a match.
    • Improved system detection for installed applications that do not have a Chocolatey identifier.
    • Improved compatibility with older PowerShell versions when processing catalog data.
  • Tests

    • Updated application-detection coverage to validate multiple matching applications.

Walkthrough

The application catalog adds 33 entries and normalizes metadata. Package detection now falls back to winget. Uninstall retries without a source when no package matches. JSON parsing preserves array behavior on older PowerShell versions.

Changes

Catalog and package handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Application catalog entries and normalization
config/applications.json
The catalog adds 33 applications and updates selected descriptions, indentation, encoding, and formatting.
Chocolatey and winget package detection
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilCurrentSystem.ps1, pester/system-helpers.Tests.ps1
Chocolatey detection queries winget for entries without Chocolatey IDs. The test expects both configured matches.
winget uninstall fallback
functions/private/Install-WinUtilProgramWinget.ps1
Uninstall retries without --source when winget reports no package match.
PowerShell JSON compatibility
pester/winoneshot-compat.Tests.ps1
Catalog error parsing preserves array semantics on PowerShell versions before 6.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InvokeWinUtilCurrentSystem
  participant winget
  participant Configuration
  InvokeWinUtilCurrentSystem->>winget: Query installed package IDs
  winget-->>InvokeWinUtilCurrentSystem: Return package list and exit code
  InvokeWinUtilCurrentSystem->>Configuration: Emit matching configuration keys
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1efa6

The Tailscale catalog description will display corrupted text, and a future change could break the new uninstall fallback without a test detecting it. These are localized issues that should be addressed before merging if practical.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the two main changes: expansion of the application catalog and improvements to package detection and Winget handling.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the catalog additions, package-management changes, compatibility updates, testing results, and known limitations described in the changeset.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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functions/private/Install-WinUtilProgramWinget.ps1 (1)

84-88: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a focused Pester test for the source-less uninstall retry.

In pester/package-outcome.Tests.ps1, mock the first Start-Process call to return -1978335212 and the second call to return a different exit code. Assert that the second call omits --source, and that the result uses the second exit code and its classified outcome. The retry overwrites $exitCode before classification, but no focused test currently covers this branch.

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In `@functions/private/Install-WinUtilProgramWinget.ps1` around lines 84 - 88, The
existing Pester coverage should add a focused test for the source-less uninstall
retry in the package outcome tests. Mock Start-Process so the initial uninstall
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In `@config/applications.json`:
- Line 996: Update the Tailscale application description to replace the
corrupted “WireGuard®” text with the intended registered trademark character
represented as \u00AE, preserving the rest of the description unchanged.

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In `@functions/private/Install-WinUtilProgramWinget.ps1`:
- Around line 84-88: The existing Pester coverage should add a focused test for
the source-less uninstall retry in the package outcome tests. Mock Start-Process
so the initial uninstall returns -1978335212 and the retry returns a different
exit code, assert the retry arguments omit --source, and verify the final result
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Comment thread config/applications.json
"choco": "tailscale",
"content": "Tailscale",
"description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard®, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",
"description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard®, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the corrupted registered trademark character.

WireGuard® contains mojibake. The compiled catalog preserves this text, so users see the corrupted description. Use \u00AE to preserve the intended character.

Proposed fix
-        "description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard®, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",
+        "description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard\u00AE, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",
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"description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard®, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",
"description": "The Tailscale client allows you to connect all your devices using WireGuard\u00AE, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.",
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In `@config/applications.json` at line 996, Update the Tailscale application
description to replace the corrupted “WireGuard®” text with the intended
registered trademark character represented as \u00AE, preserving the rest of the
description unchanged.

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$originalEncoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding
try {
[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new()
$installedProgramOutput = @(winget list --accept-source-agreements --disable-interactivity 2>&1)

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P2 Badge Skip the fallback when WinGet is unavailable

When Chocolatey is selected on a machine without WinGet—an explicitly supported state in Invoke-WPFGetInstalled—the new unconditional winget list raises a command-not-found error whenever the catalog contains a choco: "na" entry. This aborts the detection job before the Chocolatey results are applied, so “Show Installed” stops working even for Chocolatey packages; guard the fallback with the existing Test-WinUtilPackageManager -winget helper.

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This PR bundles four separate changes into one commit, and the new apps don't come with any reasoning. The app picks look reasonable: all 33 winget IDs exist and none are duplicates. Splitting it up would make this much easier to review.

Please split this into separate PRs:

  1. New apps, ideally in smaller batches. For each app, add a line saying what it is and why it belongs in WinUtil. Please also double-check the Chocolatey IDs. For example, appflowy on Chocolatey is still on 0.6.8 while winget has 0.14.x.
  2. The winget uninstall retry, with steps to reproduce the problem.
  3. The detection change in Invoke-WinUtilCurrentSystem.

The PowerShell 5.1 change in winoneshot-compat.Tests.ps1 can be dropped. CI runs Pester under pwsh, so that branch never runs.

applications.json

The file looks like a script loaded it and saved it again, instead of it being edited by hand. That's where the \u0027 and \u0026 come from. They're JSON escapes for ' and &, so they parse the same, but they fill the diff with noise. The same save also turned Tailscale's ® into ®, which shows up in the app, added a BOM, and removed the trailing newline. Could you restore the file from main and add only the new entries by hand?

Uninstall retry

0x8A150014 is APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_NO_APPLICATIONS_FOUND, winget's normal "nothing matched" result. It isn't specific to lost source metadata. The retry would run for every app that simply isn't installed through winget. It also drops --source, which loosens the match during an uninstall. If you've hit a real case that needs this, please include the winget version, the package, the winget list output, and a Pester test in the new PR.

Detection change

The new block in the choco branch copies the existing winget branch. Two copies of the parsing will drift apart. The copy also ignores a failed winget list, where the original throws. In its own PR, please reuse the existing winget branch for entries without a Chocolatey ID, and add a test that checks the winget call.

Last thing: the description says Super Productivity was removed, but that isn't in this diff or on main. Please update the description to match what the PR actually changes.

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Also:

  • Syncthing is a duplicate of Add Syncthing #5064;
  • KDE products on Windows are not welcome, because there are better things than KDE products(the only good thing I can call is Krita, but that should be a call of drawing artists, I heard they use either SAI or Krita)
  • Ditto... Clipboard History is a joke?
  • C++ is a debate, it is popular usage case, but count of devs is a question
  • PDF viewers is a one whole big debate and @ChrisTitusTech pls f- ing deal with that, there is so much tools that do same thing and each person wants their own app
  • Same goes for md editors, expanding list with choices when there are already decent choices, even for people who decline usage of "№1 choice"
  • Gemini... I will just say no. Even that AI-skeptic guy as me will say "anything BUT Gemini"

Make list clearer, at least remove duplication of apps that raises question "Why you add Y, when you're already added X?". Cause at least I've seen 3 SQL viewers, which makes no sense at all

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