Bahá’í Reader 0.1.2: Fedora starts clean, passages cite their source
Bahá’í Reader already gave you offline English collections, downloadable prayer languages, and a GTK 4 window that follows your Omarchy theme. 0.1.2 is a small release with one hard fix and one reading improvement: the Fedora RPM starts again on a fresh install, and every passage ends with a citation.
Fedora’s cairo typelib
On an up-to-date Fedora 43, the v0.1.1 RPM failed at startup with Typelib file for namespace 'cairo' not found. Fedora’s python3-gobject-base update dropped its dependency on gobject-introspection, and that package is the one that ships cairo-1.0.typelib. Without it, from gi.repository import Gtk never gets off the ground.
The RPM now depends on gobject-introspection directly. If you hit that error on Fedora, upgrade to 0.1.2 and reinstall; Arch and Debian packages were already fine.
Passage citations
Each passage now closes with an italic citation line. Prayers show the author (from the feed’s AuthorId). The Writings show author, book, and section or number — Hidden Words, the Aqdas, Some Answered Questions, Days of Remembrance, Riḍván messages, and the rest. The API does not publish page numbers, so those stay out.
You can quote or save a passage without flipping back to the contents to remember which book you were in.
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Packages (.deb, .rpm, .pkg.tar.zst, AppImage) are on the v0.1.2 release. This is still an independent community app; the texts keep their own attribution in DATA-NOTICE.md.