The design of the full desktop app was still bad, and the reason it stayed bad
is that it had no business existing. Five pages — Timer, Tasks, Blocker, Report,
Settings — each a second view of the *server's* data: a second place to be
wrong, a second place to style, and a second place to keep in step with a web
app that already does lists, rules and reports properly in a browser, on any
device. So it is gone, along with 2,100 lines of QML and the controller surface
that fed it.
What is left is what only a program on your machine can do, plus the two
surfaces worth having in front of you:
* **the tray menu — unchanged**, as asked. All fourteen entries, plus
"Settings…". "Open Kadence" now brings the countdown up, because that is what
it meant all along.
* **the mini timer**, which is now the whole of this app's own interface and so
finally carries the house style on its own: warm surface, hairline instead of
shadow, a letterspaced eyebrow, the progress lane as a rule, and exactly one
filled button — whichever action is the obvious next one. The countdown is set
in the display serif on a **fixed advance**, because Fraunces has no tabular
figures and ships no `tnum`: each glyph now sits in a box as wide as the widest
digit, instead of the clock shifting sideways on every tick. The phone client
documents the same trap; the desktop had it too and nobody had looked.
It also says OFFLINE when the backend is away — the count and the clock are
both the server's, and this is the only window left to say it in.
* **a settings dialog**, because a fresh install has to be pointed at a backend
somewhere. One column, hairline sections: the backend and its token, where the
mini timer sits, what this machine enforces, and what it does to the session.
It edits `desktop.json` and nothing else — with one honest exception, view-only
mode, which is a server-side flag the other clients have to honour too.
Structurally, `app.py` no longer loads a QML root at all: a plain `QQmlEngine`
with the mini timer as a component, and the dialog built on demand. Everything
that used to ask "is the main window visible?" is simpler for not having one —
the mini timer's auto-show rule is now just "an interval is running", which is
what the setting always claimed.
The window-only controller surface goes with the pages: tasks and task writes,
stats, the daily report, the settings document, the presets, the cycle and
interruption counters, and their worker jobs and API calls. Two things were kept
deliberately: the task list is still read once a minute for one fact — which task
is pinned, so "Start focus" from the tray attaches what you pinned this morning —
and `timerEnabled` now comes from the timer state, which already carries
`timer_enabled`, rather than from a second fetch of a document this app can no
longer edit.
Also: `--settings` and a `Settings` D-Bus verb; toasts go to the tray's balloon
now that the snackbar is gone; the launcher entry starts the agent and grew a
Settings action; a systemd user unit is shipped rather than only written at
runtime; and both READMEs say what this piece is.
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Four workflows, none of which existed:
* `tests.yml` — backend, desktop, `:core` and the web app's typecheck+build, in
parallel. `:core` needs no Android SDK at all, because settings.gradle.kts
leaves `:app` out when there is none; `:app`'s Robolectric suite therefore
lives in the APK workflow, where the SDK is installed anyway. Nothing needs a
running backend — the suites feed on committed fixtures, which is the whole
reason they were written that way.
* `lint.yml` — ruff, which the repo had been configured for and never run.
* `docker.yml` — builds the image, *starts* it against SQLite and waits for
/api/health before pushing, then publishes `:latest` and `:<short-sha>` to
git.timka.su. A tag nobody can run is worse than no tag.
* `android-release.yml` — the release APK on every push to master, signed from
secrets, with `apksigner verify --print-certs` reporting which key was really
used and failing if it was the debug one.
Three things the repo needed before any of that could work:
`versionCode` was pinned at 1, so every APK looked like the same version to the
phone and would not install over its predecessor. It now comes from the run
number, with `versionName` from a property, both via one `setting()` helper that
reads a Gradle property or an environment variable.
The release build fell back to the *debug* signing key whenever the keystore was
missing — silently. That is a trap: the APK installs, looks fine, and can never
be upgraded by a properly signed build. `KADENCE_REQUIRE_SIGNING=1` makes that
case fail the build instead, and the release job sets it whenever a keystore
secret is present.
The compose files built an image with no name, so there was nothing to pull.
`image:` now names the registry tag while `up --build` still builds locally.
Also: `android/ci/install-sdk.sh` (idempotent, cacheable, and the one place that
knows `platforms;android-37.0` is spelled with the minor version), the runner as
a compose service with its config and a setup checklist, six make targets, and a
README section. No runner is registered yet — `make ci-runner` is step two of
that checklist.
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`youtube.com` on the block list catches `music.youtube.com` — a plain entry
covers its subtree. `youtube.com` on the *allow* list caught only itself,
because exceptions were glob-matched whatever they looked like and a plain name
has no metacharacters. The same text in two boxes of the same form meant a
subtree in one and a single hostname in the other, with nothing in the UI
saying so.
A plain exception now covers its subdomains; a masked one is glob-matched
exactly as before, which is still how you spare something narrower than a whole
subtree (`docs.*`, `*.docs.google.com`).
Three enforcers decide this and all three had to move together, or an exception
would work in the browser and not at the resolver: `blocker_service.is_allowed`,
`:core`'s `isAllowed`, and the desktop DNS stub's own allow check, which was
reusing the generic glob matcher. Parity tests on both sides, plus the two
sentences in the web UI and the README that promised the old behaviour.
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desktop-test runs the 39 desktop tests in the backend venv (an absolute
path, so pytest does not warn about sys.prefix); the root README explains
that a '*' in the expansion list means every subdomain, and that the desktop
app answers the zones a hosts file cannot express.
The android README still described the app as unbuilt and pointed `glyph/libs/`
at a path that does not exist. It now covers what the app is made of, how to get
the SDK, and the three Glyph behaviours that cost an afternoon — two of which
fail with no exception and no log at all.
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- Refactored TimerPage component to improve layout and user experience.
- Updated theme configuration to utilize design tokens for better maintainability.
- Introduced new tokens for colors and typography to align with design principles.
- Simplified state management and improved timer functionality.
- Enhanced accessibility and responsiveness of UI elements.
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