timka123andClaude Opus 5
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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Desktop File
33 lines
1.2 KiB
Desktop File
# The agent, as a systemd user service.
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# Kadence on the desktop is a tray agent: it enforces the server's blocking
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# policy on this machine, posts notifications with buttons, answers D-Bus and
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# shows a floating countdown. None of that needs a window, so running it from
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# login is the normal arrangement — `--minimized` starts it with nothing on
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# screen and the mini timer appears by itself when an interval starts.
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#
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# Settings -> "Run as a systemd user service" writes this same unit with an
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# absolute ExecStart; this copy is for installing it by hand:
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#
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# mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
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# cp desktop/packaging/kadence-desktop.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
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# systemctl --user daemon-reload
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# systemctl --user enable --now kadence-desktop
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# journalctl --user -u kadence-desktop -f
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#
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# `PartOf`/`WantedBy=graphical-session.target` because the tray, the
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# notifications and the KWin rule all need a session to be in.
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[Unit]
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Description=Kadence desktop client
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PartOf=graphical-session.target
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After=graphical-session.target
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[Service]
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Type=simple
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ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/kadence-desktop --minimized
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Restart=on-failure
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RestartSec=5
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[Install]
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WantedBy=graphical-session.target
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