Lucas Rayan
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Graphical interface
Guará has a desktop app (Tauri) and the same front end in the browser with guara ui. Everything below exists in both.
The explorer
After a scan, results open in a file-manager style explorer built for thousands of items:
- Left: navigation by type, real photo date (EXIF, by year and month), folder, camera, confidence and GPS, with an option to hide small files and duplicates.
- Center: thumbnail grid or list, grouped by day or month, with virtual scrolling. A filter chip shows what is active and clears it in one click.
- Right: details panel with the preview, folder, dates (taken, modified, created, accessed), camera, resolution and the file metadata. The badge shows the confidence of the file (high, medium or low).
- Bottom bar: selection count and the recovery buttons. Recovery always goes to another folder and writes a manifest with MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256.
Arrow keys move through the files, and Space opens the full-screen quick look. Selection works like Finder or Explorer (Ctrl, Shift, keyboard).
Themes
The switch at the bottom of the sidebar offers Auto (follows the system), Light and Dark. The choice is saved.
Language
Settings (the gear at the bottom of the sidebar) has a Language selector: Auto follows the system language, or you can pick Português or English. The change applies right away. The same dialog controls automatic updates (below), notifications for long tasks and online maps for photos with GPS (off by default, because it downloads OpenStreetMap tiles).
Updates
When the desktop app opens it asks Gitea for the release's latest.json. If a newer version exists, a card appears at the bottom right with the versions, What's new (the CHANGELOG notes) and Update now. The app downloads the package, verifies its signature against the public key built into the app, installs and reopens by itself. On Linux this works for the AppImage (the file is replaced in place); installs from .deb or .rpm only show the notice with the release address. Settings > Automatic updates turns the startup check off and has a Check now button. The check sends nothing besides what any browser sends to Gitea. guara ui in the browser does not update itself.
Error messages that come from the core, and the terminal output, are still in Portuguese.
About these screenshots
They show the real interface, not a mock-up, running on a synthetic test image: 72 generated JPEGs with fake EXIF (cameras, dates, GPS) that were deleted from a FAT32 image by scripts/make-photo-fixture.py and found by a normal guara scan. No real data appears. The device name in the sidebar was replaced with a generic one.