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There was no icon system at all. Transport buttons called QStyle.standardIcon(SP_MediaPlay), which returns the platform theme's dark monochrome glyph -- painted onto the app's saturated red buttons at a fixed 36px with no text, that is the black square. Everything else called an icon was an emoji baked into en.json, which is tofu wherever the emoji font is missing. Qt stylesheets cannot recolour a QIcon, so the colour is an argument to the new helper; that is the whole fix. The SVGs are drawn here rather than vendored, which keeps a third-party licence out of the tree, and they live in the module rather than as asset files, which keeps them out of package-data and safe in a frozen build. Tooltips were the other half: three widgets in the entire application had one and nothing set an accessible name. Filling that in at the call sites would have meant editing well over a hundred of them, most in upstream-owned files. Instead one application-level event filter handles QEvent.Polish, which Qt sends to every widget once before it is shown -- so it also reaches dialogs built by upstream code, and survives the next merge. It maps placeholder emoji to icons, fills empty tooltips from the button text, and logs icon-only buttons that still have none so the gaps are findable. StyleSheet.MAIN styles the window, inputs, buttons and tables and nothing else, so the main tab bar, combos, sliders, lists, menus, splitters, tooltips and the horizontal scrollbar fell through to the platform style. EXTRA_QSS covers them, in a fork-owned module appended at the one application site. SmoothTabWidget names its frame "tabContent" with the comment "We draw border on content instead" -- that rule existed only inside two dialogs, and now exists for the main window too. Two corrections to rules that were already there: the pressed style changed the padding, shifting every label two pixels and clipping fixed-width icon buttons, and checkboxes were fully rounded, which reads as a radio button rather than an on/off toggle. Verified by screenshot on the real display: tab bar, buttons, combo carets and checkboxes all render as intended, and all 35 icons rasterise non-empty. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SageTube
A watch-first YouTube client for the desktop. Search, browse channels and playlists, follow subscriptions, and stream videos in an embedded mpv player — with the full yt-dlp download feature set inherited from YTSage.
Features
Watching
- 📺 Embedded mpv player (Wayland/X11/Windows/macOS) with quality selector, speed, volume, subtitles, fullscreen
- 🔍 In-app YouTube search with thumbnail card grid
- 📂 Channel browsing (Videos / Shorts / Live) and playlist views
- 🔔 Local subscriptions — no Google account needed — with an aggregated feed; optional real account feed via browser cookies
- ⏯️ Watch history with resume positions and a persistent play queue
- ⬇️ One click from any video card into the downloader
Downloading (from YTSage)
- Format table, audio extraction, subtitles, SponsorBlock, chapters, playlists, trimming, speed limits, proxies, cookies, custom yt-dlp commands, download history — see the upstream README
Install
pip install .
sagetube
Requires libmpv for playback (Arch: pacman -S mpv) — see
Building. Without it the app works as a downloader.
Fork notes
SageTube is a fork of YTSage by
oop7 (MIT). The internal package keeps the
ytsage name so upstream fixes remain mergeable — see
Tracking upstream. The fork also fixes a number of
upstream bugs (unsafe partial-file cleanup, unverified binary updates,
thread-safety issues, PATH corruption on Windows — see the git log).
License
MIT — see LICENSE.