User report: the sidebar preview lands correctly, but the moment the editor
opens in its own tab the picture is blank. Rather than chase that class of
handoff race again, put the editor in the same webContents as the panel:
the sidebar view navigates panel.html ↔ editor.html in place. Same
document object, same silentmode.storage surface, no cross-tab __pending
transfer at all.
- panel.html "Edit" button now calls silentmode.invoke("arm", …) — the
add-on rewrites __pending with the currently-previewed capture's bytes,
and the panel does location.href = "editor.html?name=…". Sidebar view
loads the editor with the same preload; editor.js's storage-based load
path pulls the pending entry out and paints.
- editor.html gains a "Back" arrow (returns to panel.html) and a
maximize / restore icon.
- discard() now navigates to panel.html instead of closeTab() — there is
no tab to close.
- Manifest drops the "open-tab" capability entirely (no more full-tab
editor); keeps sidebar-panel + capture-tab.
Framework: new silentmode.sidebar.{maximize, restore, toggleMax, isMax,
onMaxChange}. main.js honours them via new sidebar-maximize / -restore /
-toggle-max / -is-max IPCs, remembering the pre-maximize width so a
restore drops back exactly. The sidebar drag-grip auto-exits maximize
mode on any user drag, so pulling the edge always lands on the pre-max
value plus/minus the delta. sidebar-preload exposes the surface;
chrome.html renderer is untouched — this is a per-panel affordance.
Editor tools (crop / arrow / rect / ellipse / pen / text / mosaic /
undo / redo / copy / save) unchanged. Save still goes through Chromium's
<a download> path, so the file lands in Downloads and appears in the
download chip like any other save.
Bundled but not shipped — leaving version bump + deploy to parent session.
Every add-on panel was carrying a 32-px tab bar at the top listing every
registered extension. That existed before the toolbar extension dock
landed — now that the dock (per-extension buttons + puzzle dropdown at
narrow widths) is the canonical switcher, doubling that inside the
sidebar just wasted vertical space and made narrow panels feel cramped.
Drops installPickerStrip() from sidebar-preload.js and the invocation
from the DOMContentLoaded handler. The body-padding style that made
room for the strip goes with it, so panels reclaim their top 33px.
Resize grip on the left edge stays — unrelated feature.
No panel HTML depends on the strip's padding — the wallets, notepad,
relay, siawallet, and screenshot addon all start their own body flow
from 0. Nothing else to change.
Three opt-in capabilities for add-ons, plus the plumbing they need:
- vault-derive: api.vault.derive("<id>/<path>") resolves once the password
vault is unlocked with a 32-byte HKDF child of the vault root under
"silentmode/addons/<path>". Path must start with the add-on id.
- page-inject: manifest "page-inject" {preload, origins}; a session-wide
preload asks main (sync, against the committed URL) which add-on bridges
apply and runs them in the isolated world with a scoped `theseus` object.
- approval-modal: api.approvalModal({title, body, origin, rows, actions,
checkbox}) shows a consent overlay over the tab area (approval.html);
resolves to the picked action id, "cancel", or "<id>+<checkbox>".
- api.onMessage/emit + window.silentmode.invoke/on for panel <-> activate()
messaging; page bridges use addon-page-msg, gated by tab + origin match.
- api.require so add-ons can share Theseus's dependency tree.
Setup 3abaeff73afcecc9e4f05f749765e168a97a377890211dbae4345654c84ce2f1
Portable 71017563d6ba107cb25e24be240abcb78e34491d8f7aa42e095421edbc482a85
Brand: the red-N compass from theseus.x is now the taskbar / titlebar /
File Explorer icon everywhere. Source SVG lives at
site-theseus-x/assets/favicon.svg so brand + browser icon stay in sync.
nsis/make-icons.mjs renders it to build/icon.png (512x512) and
build/icon.ico (multi-resolution: 16/24/32/48/64/128/256). Wired into
package.json: build.win.icon, build.nsis.installerIcon + uninstaller
+ header; the ico ships as an extraResource so main.js's BrowserWindow
also uses it at runtime. Icons live in build/ which is gitignored -
run `node nsis/make-icons.mjs` when the SVG changes.
Sidebar: multi-panel picker strip. When 2+ extensions register sidebar
panels, sidebar-preload.js injects a 32-px tab strip at the top of
every panel's document. Click a tab -> ipcRenderer sidebar-open ->
loadFile switch. Preload also injects box-sizing:border-box + a
33-px body padding so height:100% panels don't overflow. Solo-panel
case is unchanged (strip only appears when panels.length >= 2).
Search: Startpage is the new default. Both the default id and the
enabled-list ordering put it first. DDG stays enabled by default too.
Deploy: scp installers + manifest + tools/ + releases/ to VPS,
sia-upload of both trees, verified HEAD 200 and manifest 0.2.3.
Icons regenerated from theseus.x's favicon.svg; the .svg itself
shipped in the 0.1.x window when the theseus.x site went live.
Setup 972f6209639122f32f032d5f2f9fc5a4808e0d4a810f88ae38ec9a1275ac52ac
Portable a9771f054ec36b9aff6ddee958cecf7e84cdacd4d7932aa8385c445aab4d29be
User-visible rename: the Settings tab and its labels say "Extensions"
now instead of "Add-ons". Internal identifiers (disabledAddons, the
addons/ folder, IPC channels, capability strings) stay put — code
churn wasn't worth it, and users only see the user-facing text.
Draggable sidebar. sidebar-preload.js now injects a 5px grip strip
along the LEFT edge of every panel document. mousedown+mousemove
streams delta-x px to main via sidebar-drag IPC; main clamps to
[200, 800] and debounces a save to settings.sidebarWidth. Width is
restored on next launch. The default is still 340. Faint acid-green
highlight on hover so the affordance is discoverable.
New extension capability: session-proxy. An extension whose addon.json
declares "session-proxy" gets api.setSessionProxy(rules) which routes
to session.defaultSession.setProxy — the same primitive Tor already
uses under the hood. Rules can be a string ("socks5://host:port") or
an object matching Electron's setProxy shape; null clears. The
capability is opt-in: an extension without the declaration gets an
error if it tries to call setSessionProxy. This is the framework
surface a private 3-VPS relay extension would build on (extension
folder stays on the operator's disk only; nothing about it appears in
the public build).
Deployed: scp installers + manifest + tools/ + releases/ pages to
VPS, sia-upload of both trees, verified HEAD 200 and manifest 0.2.2.
New subsystem for extending Theseus with folders on disk. Each add-on
lives at <userData>/addons/<id>/ with an addon.json manifest and a
CommonJS entry that exports activate(api). Nothing about a private
add-on ships in the public installer - drop the folder, restart, it's
live. Bundled reference add-ons ride in the packaged app under
resources/bundled-addons/ and are seeded into <userData>/addons/ on
first boot; the framework treats seeded and drop-in add-ons the same.
Files:
- addons-host.js Loader + api.registerSidebarPanel() + per-
addon storage on <userData>/addons-data/.
Kept at the CommonJS-scoped top level (lib/
is ESM-scoped via its own package.json).
- sidebar-preload.js Runs in every sidebar panel. Exposes
window.silentmode.storage.{get,set,all} +
onVisibility. Main-side handlers derive the
add-on id from the sender file:// URL, so a
panel can only touch its own store.
- bundled-addons/notepad/ Reference add-on: addon.json, index.js,
note.html. Autosaving textarea with char /
word count.
main.js:
- Extension point: sidebar-panel. One right-anchored WebContentsView
(SIDEBAR_W=340) hosts the current panel; layout() shrinks the tab
views by the sidebar width when visible. First registered panel
wins for MVP; picker for multiple panels lands later.
- initAddons() at app.whenReady(): seedBundledAddons, then
AddonHost.discoverAndActivate.
- IPC surface: sidebar-toggle / sidebar-open / sidebar-close /
sidebar-state, addons-list / addons-set-enabled / addons-reveal /
addons-open-dir / addons-reload, and origin-gated
addon-storage-get/set/all.
- Settings gains `disabledAddons: []` — off-toggled ids persist and
the loader honours them without a restart (discoverAndActivate
runs again on toggle).
chrome.html: toolbar sidebar-toggle button, hidden until at least one
add-on has registered a sidebar panel.
settings.html: new "Add-ons" section under privacy. Lists installed
add-ons with icon / name / version / description / capabilities;
per-add-on enable/disable toggle + Show folder button; page-level
Reload and Open add-ons folder buttons; warning note about the trust
model.
package.json: build.files gains sidebar-preload.js + addons-host.js.
extraResources gains bundled-addons/ so the packaged app carries the
reference notepad for the first-boot seed.
Verified: `npm start` boots, addons-host discovers the notepad,
activates it, registers one sidebar panel. Log confirms
"1 installed, 1 enabled, 1 sidebar panels". Actual sidebar rendering
+ notepad UI need clicked-through validation on a real install.
Not shipped yet - deploy still blocked on the fail2ban VPS SSH ban.
Ships as 0.2.0 once SSH clears (this is a new subsystem, not a fix).
