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and subject line Re: Bug#1143272: ITP: puttymod -- GTK SSH/Telnet client, PuTTY
with local UX patches
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Darth Vader <[email protected]>
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
* Package name : puttymod
Version : 0.83+puttymod1
Upstream Author : Darth Vader <[email protected]> (personal fork;
upstream PuTTY by Simon Tatham and contributors)
* URL : https://github.com/iam-darth-vader/puttymod
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C
Description : GTK SSH/Telnet client, PuTTY with local UX patches
PuTTyMOD is a personal fork of PuTTY, the free SSH and Telnet client.
All protocol/crypto/core code is unmodified upstream PuTTY; on top of
that base this fork adds a substantial set of local usability
features, all implemented from scratch rather than being a cosmetic
reskin:
* Runtime interface translation into 25 languages (own I_() lookup
table system, not gettext), picked from a dedicated Design/Language
settings panel with an "Apply & Restart" button that switches the
running UI immediately. Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew)
render correctly via Pango bidi with no special-casing needed.
* Per-session OS/distro detection: a pre-auth SSH banner probe
classifies the remote host into one of ~38 distro/vendor icons,
shown in the saved-sessions list with a hand-painted brand-colour
gradient behind each row.
* Live online/offline status dots per saved session, checked
asynchronously (TCP connect + real SSH banner read, to correctly
handle shared-IP hosting setups where a bare TCP check gives false
positives) without blocking the UI.
* 16 built-in one-click colour theme presets (Dracula, Nord,
Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, and others) plus
user-saved custom presets, applied to both the settings dialog and
the terminal's own colours in one click.
* A whole profile-independent "Design" settings section (terminal
appearance, dialog window chrome/colours/opacity, language) applied
identically across every saved session, with translucent dialog
windows where a compositor is available.
* AES-256-CBC encrypted auto-login password storage, keyed per Unix
user, never displayed once saved.
* Password-protected session export/import as self-describing ".pex"
files (Argon2id-derived key, AES-256-CBC), with its own registered
MIME type and icon set, all-or-nothing import with collision
detection.
* Session-list UX polish: search/filter, inline save/load/delete
confirmation, first-run welcome dialog with sensible defaults.
It is built from the same upstream PuTTY source and installs alongside
the official putty package rather than replacing it: only the GUI
client is shipped, as /usr/bin/puttymod, so it never touches any file
the putty/putty-tools packages own (plink, pscp, psftp, puttygen,
pageant, or /usr/bin/putty itself), and both can be installed at the
same time.
I intend to maintain this package myself and am looking for a sponsor
to review and upload it.
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On Sat, Aug 01, 2026 at 07:59:22PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
PuTTyMOD is a personal fork of PuTTY, the free SSH and Telnet client.
No, Debian doesn't need personal forks of security-sensitive software
published by fresh anonymous accounts an hour before submitting them to
Debian. Closing.
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