Running Rapid Photo Downloader from Source with uv works great!

[marcolussetti]

With the recent challenges around Python 3.14 and with Arch not yet having shipped Rapid Photo Downloader 9.37.x, I thought I would take a stab at just running from source.

I was pleasantly surprised that it runs out of the box with uv without doing anything special!

Of course, I already have the dependencies installed as they were needed for the main package, but I figure I would flag this to anyone who may find this useful

git clone https://github.com/damonlynch/rapid-photo-downloader.git
cd rapid-photo-downloader
uv run rapid-photo-downloader

and I was in business again

[damonlynch]

Good thinking @marcolussetti. Thanks for sharing your idea. Probably it helps that version 0.9.37 uses modern Python build tooling, as compared to 0.9.36.

Have you noticed any change in the program’s visual appearance with 0.9.37?

[marcolussetti]

I haven’t noticed any major differences, but the program is very predictable in my mind so I tend to go through the steps pretty quickly.

I think I see a minor font change for the most recent timeline entry?

I was running on hash 22cd1daa68815b5cb309d8a274e358be2aee34f5 (your merge from dl-branch-1)

[damonlynch]

I was thinking more of the application theme itself. What Linux desktop are you running (e.g. Gnome), and do you use dark mode?

[marcolussetti]

Oh I see. I run on i3 – with admittedly not the most consistent theming.

Here is a side by side of 9.36 vs 9.37:

9.36:

9.37:

I do think it looks comparable to me.

[marcolussetti]

I should add – due to corruption over time of my qt5 config, it’s a bit of a dark and not so dark mode in qt,

Probably not the best config to provide you with meaningful feedback on how the theming is working

[damonlynch]

Aha. The new logic in the code to check for dark mode won’t work with your window manager. I’m glad the default appearance for the program in your system looks reasonable.