Wholesale JS -> TS migration of the frontend — stores, utils, actions,
and all Svelte component scripts adopt type annotations. Compile-time
surfaces (app.d.ts, lib/types/) added for shared DTO types.
Build plumbing:
- package.json: dev:frontend script that runs svelte-kit sync first
- tauri.conf.json: beforeDevCommand points at dev:frontend
- run.sh: dropped the sed-hack that temporarily blanked beforeDevCommand;
now relies on npm run dev:frontend to avoid double-Vite
- jsconfig.json: allowImportingTsExtensions
Preserves all Group 1 behaviour:
- page.svelte.ts keeps loadHistory / loadTasks Tauri-first, no
localStorage; saveTranscriptMeta + mapTranscriptRow + mapTaskRow
intact; update_task_cmd and update_transcript_meta_cmd invocations
carry the correct payload shape.
- Toasts, preferences stores typed without behaviour change.
- Viewer still routes segment edits through saveTranscriptMeta; the
Task 1.5 TODO markers are gone.
taskExtractor.ts is functionally improved during the migration:
- multi-task matches in the same sentence
- list-style shopping-verb expansion (get bread, milk, and cheese)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second dogfood sprint. Headline fix: Linux now uses native KWin/Mutter
decorations instead of fragile frameless `startResizeDragging`, which
collapsed diagonal corner resize to a single axis and made drag feel
laggy. macOS / Windows keep custom chrome via `useCustomChrome` gate.
Other changes:
- Cross-window preferences sync via `kon:preferences-changed` Tauri
event — theme and font changes propagate live to float/viewer.
- Hotkey recorder rewritten to use capture-phase document listener
gated by $effect; button focus was unreliable in webkit2gtk.
- History page redesigned for cognitive-load hygiene: title-first
compact row, inline title input, Edit popout opening /viewer in
edit mode, clipboard export as .md with YAML frontmatter, manual
tag chips + + Add tag input, header tag filter (cap 7), global
Starred filter, `tag:xyz` search syntax.
- `deriveAutoTags` kept as empty hook for post-Task-7 LLM topic tags;
research found all previous auto-tag chips redundant with row UI.
- Viewer window adds edit mode with debounced-save textarea; native
title renamed to "Kon - Transcription Editor".
- Window minimums updated per GNOME HIG + WCAG reflow research:
main 960x600, float 360x480, editor 560x520.
- Microphone picker filters raw ALSA strings (hw:, plughw:, front:,
sysdefault:, null) and dedupes by CARD=X. New `description` field
on DeviceInfo reads /proc/asound/cards so Blue Yeti shows as "Blue
Microphones" instead of the short "Microphones" card name.
- GPU reporting fixed: get_runtime_capabilities now returns
accelerators=[cpu,vulkan] and whisper.supports_gpu=true, matching
the transcribe-rs whisper-vulkan feature linked unconditionally.
- ResizeHandles kept for macOS/Windows frameless: 12px edges, 20px
corners via CSS vars, pointerdown + setPointerCapture, corners
above edges in z-order, rendered as sibling (not child) of the
animated layout root so `position: fixed` is viewport-relative.
- Dueling drag-region handlers removed — `data-tauri-drag-region` and
manual `startDragging()` were stacked on the same elements; kept
the manual handler which has the button/input early-return logic.
See HANDOVER.md for the full session log and deferred items.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Front-to-back QC pass turned up two independent missing-module
showstoppers (workspace did not compile; frontend did not load) plus a
handful of HANDOVER-claimed features that were wired but dead. Fixes:
P0 — gets the app booting again:
- Add the never-committed src/lib/utils/runtime.js (hasTauriRuntime
detection); 5 imports were resolving to nothing.
- Add the never-committed crates/audio/src/streaming_resample.rs
(rubato-backed StreamingResampler with new/push_samples/flush);
declared in lib.rs and used 3x by live.rs but had no impl.
- Drop the duplicate hasTauriRuntime import in routes/+layout.svelte.
- Allow the transcript-viewer window to use the default capability
(was missing from capabilities/default.json:windows, so the viewer
window could open but not invoke any Tauri command).
P1 — features documented as working but actually dead:
- Pump MicrophoneCapture::take_error_rx() into LiveStatusMessage::
Warning each loop iteration in commands/live.rs. The HANDOVER
promised cpal stream errors would surface as toasts; the channel
was created and never read.
- Replace .expect() on the WebKit media-permission setup with a
logged warning. Failure no longer aborts the whole process.
- Toast on save_preferences failure (preferences.svelte.js had a
silent console.error — now warns once per failure run via the
existing toasts store).
P2 — correctness/robustness:
- add_dictionary_entry: switch INSERT OR IGNORE to ON CONFLICT
DO UPDATE ... RETURNING id so duplicate terms get the real row id
instead of a stale auto-increment.
- search_transcripts: qualify ORDER BY fts.rank.
- InsertTranscriptParams + TranscriptRow: bump sample_rate /
audio_channels from i32 to i64 to match the Tauri DTO and avoid
silent truncation at the boundary.
- Drop the unused tauri-plugin-mcp dependency.
- Promote sqlx in src-tauri/Cargo.toml from linux-only to
unconditional (lib.rs names sqlx::SqlitePool unconditionally —
macOS/Windows builds were latently broken).
- hotkey/linux.rs: stop panicking the hotplug task on inotify
failure; degrade to "no hotplug" with a stderr warning.
- layout.svelte: store the global error/unhandledrejection handler
refs and remove them in onDestroy so HMR/window teardown doesn't
leak listeners.
Verified: cargo check -p kon-core -p kon-storage -p kon-cloud-providers
passes. cargo check on src-tauri/kon-audio/kon-hotkey requires alsa +
gtk system libs not present in this sandbox; their changes are
syntactically and type-checked against the rest of the workspace.
svelte-check requires npm install which is not available here.
https://claude.ai/code/session_018ozAs4UcRC8jbJbddqJtEw
CROSS-PLATFORM AUDIT:
- Linux x86_64 (Fedora 43, KDE Wayland): HIGH confidence (the dev target)
- Linux other distros / X11: MEDIUM (tested patterns, untested distros)
- Windows 10/11: LOW — theoretically supported via Tauri + CPAL + whisper.cpp
+ tauri-plugin-global-shortcut (the custom evdev hotkey is no-op on
Windows); has had zero hands-on testing
- macOS Apple Silicon / Intel: LOW — same; macOS Info.plist needs
NSMicrophoneUsageDescription for the bundled app, and the path bug
fixed in this commit
REAL BUG FIXED — macOS app_data_dir was Unix-style:
crates/storage/src/file_storage.rs::app_data_dir() previously fell into
the "Unix" branch on macOS and wrote to ~/.kon/, which violates Apple
guidelines and confuses install/uninstall tooling. Now correctly:
- Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%/kon (unchanged)
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Kon/
- Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/kon or ~/.local/share/kon (XDG Base Directory),
with legacy ~/.kon/ fallback so existing installs keep working
- Other Unix: ~/.kon/ (unchanged)
OS DETECTION LAYER:
- New get_os_info Tauri command in commands/diagnostics.rs returns:
{os, arch, family, usesCmd, isWayland, customHotkeyBackend,
primaryModifierLabel}
- New src/lib/utils/osInfo.js helper:
- async loadOsInfo() warms a cache, called once at root layout mount
- then isMac() / isWindows() / isLinux() / modKeyLabel() / isWayland()
are synchronous
- browser-preview fallback reads navigator.platform
- Lets components localise hotkey labels (Cmd vs Ctrl), file-picker
copy ("Open Finder" vs "Open Explorer"), etc, without recomputing in
every place.
cargo check -p kon-storage clean. Updated HANDOVER-2026-04-17.md with
a per-platform confidence table.
THE BRIEF:
For the friends beta we need verbal feedback AND technical feedback —
some bugs the user cannot describe but a stack trace can. Built it in
two layers, with Layer 3 deferred until there is real volume.
PRIVACY POSTURE (matches Kon's local-first positioning):
- All capture is to disk only. Nothing is transmitted.
- The manual report bundler shows the user exactly what would be
shared and lets them choose to copy / save it.
- No remote endpoint, no Sentry, no opt-out telemetry.
LAYER 1 — Always-on local capture:
- Rust panic hook (commands/diagnostics.rs::install_panic_hook) writes
each panic to ~/.kon/crashes/<unix-ts>-<short-id>.crash. Captures
thread name, OS/arch, RUST_BACKTRACE state, and the panic info.
Installed before tauri::Builder so it catches setup-time panics too.
- Frontend window.onerror + window.unhandledrejection in
src/routes/+layout.svelte forward to the new log_frontend_error
Tauri command, which inserts into the existing error_log SQLite
table. Best-effort: errors in the error handler itself are swallowed
so logging can never crash the app.
- Existing error_log table (migration v1) is now actually used —
closes the TODO from crates/storage/src/database.rs:409.
LAYER 2 — Manual diagnostic report:
- Settings → About → Diagnostics section: Generate report → Preview →
Copy / Save.
- Report is plain markdown so it pastes cleanly into email, Discord,
GitHub issues. Sections: app version + OS, sanitised settings JSON,
recent error_log rows, last 5 crash dumps with previews, log file
tail (8KB).
- Preview is shown in a <details> with the full text the user can
inspect before deciding to share.
- Save writes to ~/.kon/diagnostic-reports/kon-diagnostic-<ts>.md.
NEW FILES:
- src-tauri/src/commands/diagnostics.rs (panic hook + 5 Tauri commands)
CHANGES:
- crates/storage/src/file_storage.rs: crashes_dir() + logs_dir() helpers
- crates/storage/src/database.rs: ErrorLogRow + list_recent_errors()
- crates/storage/src/lib.rs: re-exports
- src-tauri/src/commands/mod.rs: + diagnostics module
- src-tauri/src/lib.rs: install_panic_hook() before Builder; 5 new
Tauri commands registered (log_frontend_error,
list_recent_errors_command, list_crash_files,
generate_diagnostic_report, save_diagnostic_report)
- src/routes/+layout.svelte: installGlobalErrorCapture() at mount
- src/lib/pages/SettingsPage.svelte: diagnostic state + buttons +
preview block at the end of the About section
cargo check -p kon-storage clean. Settings.svelte if/each balanced.
LAYER 3 (deferred):
- Optional opt-in remote reporting (self-hosted Sentry on Tartarus or
similar). Not for friends beta. Open up after volume justifies it.
THE PROBLEM (Codex review + architecture-review.md §1, §14):
Multiple critical paths discard errors silently — `let _ = insert_transcript(...)`,
`.catch(() => {})`, inline `error = ...` state that not every page surfaces. ND
users in particular need explicit feedback when something fails; silent
failure is worse than no feature.
SHIPPED:
src/lib/stores/toasts.svelte.js (new):
- Minimal in-house toast store (~80 lines, no svelte-french-toast dep)
- Severity → palette: info/success → moss, warn → signal, error → ember
- Auto-dismiss durations per severity (success 3s, info 4s, warn 6s,
error sticky)
- `invokeWithToast(invoke, command, args, errorTitle?)` helper wraps a
Tauri invoke and toasts on failure while still throwing for callers
that need to handle the error themselves
src/lib/components/ToastViewport.svelte (new):
- Reads from the toasts store
- Bottom-right stack, max-width clamp on small screens
- aria-live=polite + role=alert on error toasts (screen-reader friendly)
- Slide-in animation honours `html.reduce-motion` for the existing
preferences toggle
- Severity left-border in brand colours via existing CSS variables
src/routes/+layout.svelte:
- Mounts <ToastViewport /> once at the app root so toasts work from any
page or window
src/lib/pages/DictationPage.svelte:
- First error-toast wiring: failures starting recording now show a
sticky toast in addition to the inline `error` panel
- Replaces a previously easy-to-miss failure-mode
NEXT (Day 4 batch):
- Wire toasts into FilesPage, HistoryPage, SettingsPage, ModelDownloader
(all currently swallow errors)
- Add `add_transcript`, `list_transcripts`, `update_transcript` (closes the
long-standing TODO Codex flagged), `delete_transcript` Tauri commands
wrapping the existing storage layer
- Switch addToHistory to dual-write (localStorage + SQLite) so the
canonical store catches up with the actual transcript flow
- FTS5 transcripts_fts virtual table + search command
- Wrap multi-row writes (decompose_and_store) in DB transactions
prevTaskIds was declared as $state, causing the $effect that writes to
it to re-trigger itself infinitely (effect_update_depth_exceeded). The
variable is just a comparison reference — doesn't need to be reactive.
Changed to a plain let.
Also removed debug event loggers and reverted grain z-index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The invisible z-40 overlay was still eating pointer events across the
main content. Removed the backdrop — sidebar now floats without blocking
anything. Close with Escape key.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The full-screen backdrop (fixed inset-0 z-40) was eating all pointer
events, making the app unusable when the task sidebar was open. Replace
with a backdrop that only covers the content area (not titlebar) and
sits beside the sidebar rather than wrapping it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add kon-hotkey crate with evdev-based global hotkey capture that works on
Wayland (and X11). Patterns from whisper-overlay: per-device async listeners,
inotify hotplug with udev permission retry, watch channel for live config
updates. Frontend detects Wayland at startup and selects evdev or
tauri-plugin-global-shortcut automatically.
Model downloads now support HTTP Range resume for interrupted downloads and
optional SHA256 integrity verification (incremental, no second pass).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add sidebarCollapsed to settings defaults (persists via localStorage on saveSettings)
- Sidebar collapses to 48px icons-only view with smooth 200ms transition
- Toggle button (chevron) at top of nav; [ keyboard shortcut in layout (input-safe)
- Auto-collapse on window resize below 900px (checked on mount and on resize event)
- Titlebar left spacer tracks sidebar width reactively (48px / 210px)
- All labels, profile selector, status text hidden in collapsed mode; nav items show tooltips via title attribute
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Backdrop tint div has direct onclick to close sidebar
- Sidebar panel uses stopPropagation so clicks inside don't close
- Outer container uses target check for self-click dismiss
- Svelte 5 compatible (no |self modifier)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
TaskSidebar:
- Changed from flex layout member to fixed overlay with backdrop
- Click backdrop or press Escape to close
- Content no longer shrinks when sidebar opens — buttons stay accessible
- Positioned at z-50 over main content, top offset for titlebar
Settings — Parakeet model management:
- Added Parakeet model state: download, check, load status
- New downloadParakeet() and loadParakeet() functions
- Listens for parakeet-download-progress events
- Parakeet section shows download/load/status controls
Settings — conditional engine sections:
- Whisper model selector only shows when engine === "whisper"
- Parakeet model controls only show when engine === "parakeet"
- Cleaner UI — only active engine's options visible
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Float window fixes:
- Root layout now detects /float and /viewer URLs and hides Sidebar,
Titlebar, TaskSidebar for secondary windows. Belt-and-braces fix
since +layout@.svelte should handle this but may not in SPA mode.
- Float window title: "Ramble - To-do" → "Kon - To-do"
Transcription doubling guard:
- Added chunk_id deduplication set in DictationPage — if a chunk_id
has already been processed, skip the duplicate result
- Set cleared on each new recording session
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New probe_system command: returns RAM, CPU, OS info
- New rank_models command: scores models against detected hardware
- FirstRunPage.svelte: hardware summary, ranked model list with
"Recommended" badge on top pick, download progress bar, skip option
- First-run detection in layout: checks list_models + list_parakeet_models,
shows wizard if both empty
- Sidebar hidden during first-run for clean wizard experience
- clippy clean
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
