Fix tray visibility and message reception issues

- Disable sound initialization to prevent hanging
- Add missing import re in utils.py
- Fix settings loading for QSettings
- Update file paths to use PROJECT_ROOT
- Revert to working API paths and listener from commit efdc63e

venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/PyQt6/uic/Compiler/as_string.py

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+#############################################################################
+##
+## Copyright (c) 2025 Riverbank Computing Limited <info@riverbankcomputing.com>
+## 
+## This file is part of PyQt6.
+## 
+## This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+## version 3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation and appearing in
+## the file LICENSE included in the packaging of this file.  Please review the
+## following information to ensure the GNU General Public License version 3.0
+## requirements will be met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+## 
+## If you do not wish to use this file under the terms of the GPL version 3.0
+## then you may purchase a commercial license.  For more information contact
+## info@riverbankcomputing.com.
+## 
+## This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
+## WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+##
+#############################################################################
+
+
+import re
+
+
+def as_string(obj):
+    if isinstance(obj, str):
+        return '"' + _escape(obj) + '"'
+
+    return str(obj)
+
+
+_esc_regex = re.compile(r"(\"|\'|\\)")
+
+def _escape(text):
+    # This escapes any escaped single or double quote or backslash.
+    x = _esc_regex.sub(r"\\\1", text)
+
+    # This replaces any '\n' with an escaped version and a real line break.
+    return re.sub(r'\n', r'\\n"\n"', x)