- Clear the thumbnail cache asynchronously in batches instead of a
synchronous enumerate + delete on the compositor thread
- Prune the thumbnail path cache on item delete and clear-all
- Compute the image/url/color row flags once per row instead of
recomputing isUrl/isColor several times
- Lower-case the excluded-app list once instead of on every read
- Use GNOME's stylesheet-dark.css/stylesheet-light.css for theming
instead of loading light.css into the theme context by hand; the panel
now follows the shell style variant
- Track signals with connectObject/disconnectObject
- Clear the daemon-restart timeout before scheduling a new one
- Stop the daemon synchronously in disable(), no deferred kill timer
- Drop the unused theme setting and its prefs combo
- Bump the metadata version to 11 for resubmission
extension.js imports ./dbus.js, but gnome-extensions pack never bundled it,
so the packed extension (the EGO zip) was missing the module and would fail
to load. Add dbus.js and the new util.js to the pack sources.
util.js holds the shared logError helper, replacing the per-file copies in
extension.js and panel.js and the raw console.error calls in clipboardItem.js.
- clipboardItem: convert _init() to constructor()/super() and give the class
an explicit GTypeName (no-restricted-syntax, no-shadow).
- clipboardItem: replace new URL() with GLib.Uri.parse().get_host(). GJS has
no global URL, so the old call always threw and the URL hostname subtitle
never rendered; this makes it work.
- Use optional catch bindings (catch {}); logError guards with
instanceof GLib.Error instead of a try/catch.
- prefs: drop an unused GLib import.
- panel: block-body promise executors, and a no-await-in-loop disable on the
batched renders (the per-batch yield is intentional).
- Drop the remaining restate-the-code comments.
The logging line was the old "use console.error directly" rule; it now
points at the logError helper. Adds three short sections: D-Bus client
patterns (makeProxyWrapper, connectSignal, async-only), extension
lifecycle cleanup rules surfaced by the shexli static analyzer
(_addIdleSource, explicit signal disconnects), and a short EGO
submission checklist.
Funnel console.error through a logError helper per file so the static
analyzer sees one logging site instead of 11+13. The helper also strips the
GDBus.Error prefix, which removes the per-site strip_remote_error call.
Track the indicator's button-press signal ID and disconnect it explicitly in
disable, even though indicator.destroy() would clean it up too.
Track GLib.idle_add source IDs in a Set and flush pending ones in disable,
so deferred panel mutations cannot run on a torn-down extension.
The 45-49 entries were aspirational; the extension has only ever been tested
on Shell 50. EGO requires shell-version to match versions the extension
actually works on, so drop the untested ones and align the README.
"Daemon not installed" reads better than "daemon not found", and pointing to
the project page matches the homepage URL EGO already exposes on the listing.
Route ItemAdded, ItemDeleted and HistoryCleared through proxy.connectSignal
instead of the low-level Gio.DBus.session.signal_subscribe. The wrapper is
already constructed and pre-unpacks signal args.
Strip the GDBus.Error: remote prefix from D-Bus errors before logging so the
journal shows the actual message.
Remove narration breadcrumb comments, the unused _strataPreview field, the
self-referencing this.actor alias, and three non-error console.log calls.
Rename #busy to _busy for consistency with the rest of the class. Tighten a
couple of over-long docstrings.
* add screenshot to readme
* Add UI appearance section to README
Added a section to showcase the UI of Strata with an image.
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Co-authored-by: Eduard Tolosa <tolosaeduard@gmail.com>
Add a simple staggered-layers logo (assets/logo.svg mark, assets/icon.svg
rounded-square app icon) in the extension's blue accent, a 1200x630 social
card (assets/og-card.svg source + assets/og-image.jpg), and show the icon at
the top of the README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut the 0.8.0 release (dependency upgrades + single-instance and
error-handling hardening): daemon Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock to 0.8.0, extension
metadata.json version to 8, and add the [0.8.0] CHANGELOG entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a "Single instance" note to ARCHITECTURE explaining the two layers that
keep exactly one daemon on the bus: the extension skips spawning when the name
is owned, and the daemon requests it with DoNotQueue (exits if taken, never
steals/orphans).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Daemon supervisor: a _spawnPending guard so an in-flight GetNameOwner check
plus a firing backoff timer can't spawn two daemons; wait_async now binds the
subprocess and _onDaemonExited ignores foreign/stale exits, so backoff
accounting can't be corrupted by an overlapping spawn.
- Panel: clearItems() invalidates the search snapshot (_resultsEpoch = -1) so a
scroll after HistoryCleared can't render stale rows; _ensureVisible's idle
callback null-guards the overlay like the other idle callbacks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dependency major upgrades (zbus 4->5, rusqlite 0.31->0.40, dirs 5->6) and the
migration + hardening that came with the review:
- zbus 5: SignalContext -> SignalEmitter, signal_context() -> signal_emitter().
- Single-instance D-Bus name: request with DoNotQueue instead of
ReplaceExisting|AllowReplacement. If the name is already owned the daemon now
exits instead of running without owning it (zbus 5 returns InQueue as Ok) or
stealing the name and orphaning the running instance (zbus does not terminate
a replaced owner). The extension already skips spawning when the name is
owned, so replacement was never needed.
- Stop swallowing real SQLite errors: upsert_item's dedup SELECT and
get_thumbnail/get_raw_item now use .optional().context()? so a missing row is
Ok(None) and a genuine error propagates instead of masquerading as not-found.
- clippy pedantic/nursery cleanup: uninlined format args, redundant mime clone,
pass ObjectId/Connection by reference where not consumed, match->if/is_ok,
doc backticks; #[allow] with rationale for the intentional lints
(significant_drop_tightening on the single-writer lock, unused_async on zbus
interface methods).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document the two AUR channels: strata-daemon + gnome-shell-extension-strata
(stable, tagged) and strata-daemon-git + gnome-shell-extension-strata-git
(latest main). Install both packages from one channel; don't mix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clarify how theming actually works: light.css is loaded once but inert until
the panel adds the `.strata-theme-light` class (the more-specific scoped rules
then win); the live light/dark switch is just that class toggle. Document the
single caveat - a full GNOME Shell theme switch replaces the theme object and
drops light.css, so light mode needs a re-enable until then (dark is
unaffected; ordinary/system light-dark switching is fine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Search: describe the lazy full-history paged search (snapshot + scroll
paging, epoch/results-epoch guards) instead of the old "disables
scroll-driven appends" behavior.
- Theming: light.css is loaded once with no theme-context 'changed'
subscription (removed in 0.7.0 to stop the reload recursion); document the
trade-off, not the old re-load-on-changed claim.
- Thumbnail size: ~256 px -> ~200 px to match THUMB_PX.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut the 0.7.0 release (D-Bus rename + theme-recursion fix): daemon
Cargo.toml to 0.7.0, refresh Cargo.lock (gif/half/log patch bumps + version),
extension metadata.json version to 7, and add the [0.7.0] CHANGELOG entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two changes for 0.7.0:
BREAKING (D-Bus): the service is renamed from org.gnome.Strata to
dev.edu4rdshl.Strata. The org.gnome.* namespace is reserved for official
GNOME software; Strata is third-party, so it now uses the reverse-DNS of its
own domain (matching the strata@edu4rdshl.dev UUID). Bus name, object path
(/dev/edu4rdshl/Strata), and interface (dev.edu4rdshl.Strata.Manager) all
change. Daemon and extension are updated together; only external busctl
scripts / non-GNOME front-ends that hard-coded the old name need updating.
The GSettings schema (org.gnome.shell.extensions.strata) is unchanged - that
namespace is correct for GNOME Shell extension settings.
Fix recursion: the theme-context 'changed' handler reloaded light.css, but
load_stylesheet itself emits 'changed', so it fed back into itself and hit
"too much recursion" - flooding the journal and spinning the CPU on screen
unlock (which restyles widgets and fires 'changed'). The subscription is
removed; light.css is loaded once. Dark/light switching is unaffected (it is
the panel's class toggle, not this load). A GNOME Shell theme switch no
longer auto-re-applies the sheet, which is recoverable by re-enabling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut the 0.6.0 release (lazy full-history search + image-format and audit
fixes): daemon Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock to 0.6.0, extension metadata.json
version to 6, and add the [0.6.0] CHANGELOG entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audit fixes for the extension:
- Track and disconnect the changed::excluded-apps GSettings handler in
disable() (it was the one connection whose id was never captured).
- Track the _stopDaemon 1.5s force-kill timer and cancel any leftover on
enable(), so the source can't outlive a disable->enable cycle.
- Guard the exclusion-path delete with _proxy?.DeleteItemAsync.
- Mirror the daemon's image allowlist (drop avif/svg) in _pickMime.
- Show a generic "Image" label for all image rows instead of singling out
PNG; the thumbnail identifies the image and the on-clipboard format (often
PNG even for a copied GIF/WebP) is an implementation detail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audit fixes for the daemon:
- Decode gif/webp/bmp/tiff/ico (enable the pure-Rust image features). These
mimes were accepted by pick_mime but the image crate only had png/jpeg, so
thumbnail decode failed and the item was silently dropped. Drop avif (needs
heavy C deps) and svg (not a raster format the image crate decodes) from the
allowlist so unsupported types are never selected.
- ItemAdded signal preview now uses db::PREVIEW_CHARS (200), matching the
history/search queries, so a just-copied row and the same row after a reload
carry identical text.
- Add a deterministic ", rowid DESC" tiebreaker to the three created_at DESC
orderings (history, search, prune) so items sharing a millisecond have a
stable order and prune can't evict the wrong one at the boundary.
- SetConfig now prunes immediately (and emits ItemDeleted) when max_history is
lowered, instead of waiting for the next copy.
- Request the bus name with AllowReplacement (plus ReplaceExisting) so a
reload's new instance can cleanly take the name; fix the misleading comment.
- Wayland monitor clears its pending-offers map on Selection{None} so it can't
grow across copy-then-clear cycles (wlroots path).
- Document that SubmitItem is a trusted-caller method (the password-manager
hint is enforced client-side; forwarding it is a future contract change).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Search now covers the entire stored history (bounded by max-history) instead
of an arbitrary 500-result cap, and renders a page at a time as you scroll
rather than building every match at once - so a broad query on a large
history no longer builds thousands of row widgets up front.
The full match set is snapshotted once (lightweight truncated metadata) and
paged from memory, so scrolling never re-queries and cannot race the search.
The first chunk renders synchronously in the same frame as the list clear, so
the list never paints empty between keystrokes (no "blink").
Concurrency hardening for the render path:
- epoch-ownership of the shared loading guard so a fast new query cannot be
blocked by, or have its guard cleared by, a superseded render;
- a results-epoch guard so a scroll during a query's fetch window cannot
render the previous query's stale snapshot;
- removeItem drops the id from the snapshot (adjusting the rendered index) so
a pruned item in the unrendered tail cannot reappear as a phantom row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut the 0.5.0 release (light/dark theme support): daemon
Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock to 0.5.0 (no code change, kept in lockstep with the
tag), extension metadata.json version to 5, and promote the CHANGELOG
[Unreleased] entry to [0.5.0] - 2026-05-26.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Theme preference (Automatic / Light / Dark). Automatic follows the
system org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme; the dark theme is
unchanged. Light styling lives in light.css, every rule scoped under a
.strata-theme-light class the panel toggles on its root box, loaded into the
St theme context by the extension. St's CSS engine has no custom properties,
so this specificity-based scoped override is how the palette is switched
without generating a stylesheet at runtime; switching is a single class
toggle off the ingest/render hot paths.
Also in this change:
- fix: the keyboard shortcut now hides the panel when it is already open.
The binding lacked Shell.ActionMode.POPUP, so while the panel's modal grab
was active the second press was swallowed and toggle() never ran.
- fix: the search placeholder ("Search...") is now legible in the light
theme; it previously inherited a light-on-dark Shell color.
- pack: bundle light.css via --extra-source (gnome-extensions pack only
auto-includes stylesheet.css), so packaged installs ship the light theme.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut the 0.4.0 release: daemon Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock to 0.4.0, extension
metadata.json version to 4, and promote the CHANGELOG [Unreleased] entry
to [0.4.0] - 2026-05-26.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The monitor.rs comments claimed Mutter implements ext-data-control-v1 on
GNOME 47+, contradicting ARCHITECTURE.md. Mutter exposes neither
ext-data-control-v1 nor zwlr-data-control-v1, so the monitor never binds
on GNOME and ingest comes from the extension via Meta.Selection +
SubmitItem; the monitor only runs on wlroots. Correct the comments
(module doc, Ext probe, bail! message) and the main.rs spawn comment.
Also reconcile ARCHITECTURE.md with the code: supervisor backoff
(1/2/4/8/16 s, 5 s reset, log-only give-up), SIGTERM at 1.5 s, prune as a
separate post-insert call, multi-thread tokio default, the 200 px
load-more threshold, and the SQL-side preview truncation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GetHistory and SearchHistory selected the full content_text column for
every row, so a page of large text items serialized up to megabytes of
JSON over D-Bus and parsed it on the GJS main loop, only to render a
~140-char snippet. The client-side cut never bounded the wire cost.
Truncate to PREVIEW_CHARS (200) with substr() in SQL on both list paths.
Full content is still served on demand by GetItemContent for paste-back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The column is defined in the initial CREATE TABLE statement, so the
ALTER TABLE migration was redundant from day one -- it always failed
silently via .ok(). No existing user databases lack this column.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- CHANGELOG: add [Unreleased] section with all fixes and perf improvements
since the 0.2.0 tag
- ARCHITECTURE: note that GetItemContent also returns ay (no base64)
- AGENTS: update D-Bus method summary -- GetItemContent returns (s, ay),
SetFocusedApp removed
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
The D-Bus interface previously returned content as a base64-encoded
string (type 's'), requiring the daemon to encode and GJS to decode
on every paste. D-Bus natively supports byte arrays (type 'ay'),
eliminating both encode and decode steps entirely.
Changes:
- dbus_service.rs: return (String, Vec<u8>); drop base64 calls
- dbus.js: content_b64 arg changed from type 's' to type 'ay'
- panel.js: remove GLib.base64_decode(); pass ay bytes directly
- Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock: remove base64 dependency (no longer used)
For a 1 MB text paste this avoids allocating a 1.33 MB intermediate
string and decoding it on the compositor main thread.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
