Four user reports from the 0.6.0 rollout:
- Text tool never committed. openTextInput placed the box correctly but
a couple of Chromium quirks stopped a normal type-Enter cycle:
focus() called synchronously right after appendChild lost the race
in some builds, and the input's own mousedown / click was bubbling
through to #base and re-firing openTextInput on every subsequent
keystroke click-through, so what looked like "nothing happens" was
actually "a new empty box spawned on top of the last one every time".
Now: focus after requestAnimationFrame, contain pointerdown / mousedown
/ click inside the input so they don't bubble to the canvas, track
the font size on the state so commit uses the same one openTextInput
measured against, and preventDefault on the base pointerdown so
Chromium doesn't reset focus back to <body>.
- Toolbar wrapped one dot at a time when the sidebar was narrow (a
lonely thin/medium/thick width would jump to a second row while the
swatches stayed above it). Toolbar items are now wrapped in
`<div class="tgroup">` per category — tools / swatches / widths /
undo-redo — with `flex: 0 0 auto`, so a whole row wraps as a unit
and lands cleanly under the previous one. `gap: 10px / row-gap: 6px`
keeps the visual grouping obvious.
- No way to close the sidebar without hunting for the dock icon. Added
an X button in the top-right of both the sidebar panel and the
editor toolbar. Both wire through a new `silentmode.sidebar.close()`
preload method that calls the existing `sidebar-close` IPC.
- Tightened the pointerdown text branch so preventDefault + explicit
focus-after-frame make the click-through races impossible.
Bundled but not shipped separately — parent session signs and pushes.
Editor:
- Crop tool restored — drag to select, marquee sits with a dashed acid
border and a dimmed backdrop for the area you'll discard, then the
topbar shows Apply crop / Cancel. Applying trims #base to the rect,
resets undo (dimensions changed), and drops back into the select tool.
Enter / Esc keyboard shortcuts while a crop is pending.
- Blur / mosaic redaction tool back — drag a rectangle, editor
downsamples that region of #base to ~12-block granularity and paints
the blocks back nearest-neighbour. Commits directly (no confirm step).
- Sidebar-window controls (Back, name, Copy, Save, Sound, Maximize)
reflow: Back + name on the left, Copy + Save + Sound + Maximize on
the right so the "put the sidebar back to normal size" affordance
lives where users expect it. Toolbar's drawing tools stay centred.
- Back arrow icon swapped from a chevron to a proper flat arrow
(line + arrowhead), matching the new browser back/forward glyphs.
Sounds — modeled on Firefox Screenshots' feedback rather than beeps:
- Shutter is now a real photoshoot click: two mirror-slaps built from a
band-passed noise burst (metallic ping) plus a very short square-wave
thud each. Sounds like a camera, not a beep.
- Copy is a two-chirp "printer feed" — filtered noise burst on top of a
sine chirp per beat, staccato ascending pair. Same shape Firefox Easy
Screenshot uses for "copied to clipboard".
- Save keeps its ascending triad; Discard keeps its descending pair;
new small ascending pair for Apply crop.
Chrome:
- Browser Back / Forward chevrons (M10 3 L5 8 L10 13 — two segments
meeting at a point, no shaft) replaced with straight-arrow glyphs
(line + arrowhead). Reads as a navigation arrow, not an angle bracket.
Bundled but not shipped separately — parent session OTA-signs and pushes.
Two problems the old editor kept hitting:
- __pending drain race: opening the editor a second time (refresh, back-and-
forth navigation) found the storage entry already consumed and bailed to
a blank canvas silently.
- Cross-origin img loading: editor.html at file:///…/addons/screenshot/
loading a scratch PNG at file:///…/addons-data/ counts as cross-origin
under Chromium's file-URL policy; setting crossOrigin="anonymous" made
the load fail outright.
Rebuilt editor v2:
- Load path is idempotent: silentmode.invoke("getBytes", {name}) → addon
reads the scratch file and returns a data URL. No __pending drain, no
cross-origin trickery — data: URLs are same-origin and never taint the
canvas, so getImageData / toBlob keep working.
- Two-canvas model (#base + #over, over is pointer-events:none) so live
previews don't cost a full re-composite per mousemove.
- Tools: cursor, arrow, rect, ellipse, pen, text. 6 swatches, 3 widths,
undo / redo (25-deep). Copy + Save at the top bar. Back and Maximize
buttons in the same top bar so navigation controls stay reachable when
the toolbar wraps at narrow widths.
- Keyboard: A/R/O/P/T select tool, Esc = cursor, Ctrl+Z/Shift+Z undo/redo,
Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+C copy.
- Toast surface for save/copy/error feedback.
Sidebar panel gains a direct raw-save path so the user can copy or save the
capture without entering the editor:
- Two-row actions: [Copy] [Save] on top, [Discard] [Edit] below.
- Copy uses navigator.clipboard.write(ClipboardItem); Save uses
<a download> with a Blob URL — same path Chromium's will-download
tracker already handles, so the file lands in Downloads and the chip
updates like any other save.
Inline "clear all" confirmation replaces the native confirm() — the old
system-modal opened over the tab area (out of the sidebar's visual
context) and looked like Windows 95. Now a compact red strip appears
under the Recent header with Cancel / Delete buttons.
Sounds + a sound-on/off toggle in both surfaces:
- Web Audio oscillator-synthesized (no .wav shipped): shutter click on
capture, two-tone bloop on copy, descending pair on discard/back,
ascending triad on save.
- Preference stored in silentmode.storage under "soundOn" (default on),
shared between the panel and the editor.
Simplifications:
- Dropped the addon's "arm" onMessage handler (superseded by getBytes).
- Manifest capabilities: sidebar-panel + capture-tab (no open-tab,
no toolbar-menu).
Bundled but not shipped — parent session handles the OTA sign + push.
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.
Blank editor + broken buttons root cause: index.js was writing the
capture to <userData>/addons-data/screenshot-scratch/<name>.png and
passing "?src=file://<that path>" to editor.html. The editor lives at
file:///<userData>/addons/screenshot/editor.html — different directory
tree under file://. Chromium's file:// origin policy treats those as
different origins and quietly refuses the <img> load, so init()'s
loadImage() rejects, the canvas never gets an image, and every tool
after that operates on a still-empty 300×150 default canvas — the
tools appear to work but produce no visible output because the base
image never landed. The sidebar version we replaced set
`previewImg.src = dataUrl` (a base64 data URL) directly, which has no
origin and just worked; the tab version regressed by adding the file
hop.
Fix keeps the scratch file for the recent-captures ring but hands
the raw capture through the add-on's per-add-on kv store
(`__pending` key). Same store, same origin scoping, no
cross-directory read: index.js writes via api.storage.set from main;
editor.js reads via window.silentmode.storage.get through the tab
preload (packaged since 0.3.27). Fallback path retained for
"openRecent" callers still passing ?src=… — those will need their
own fix in a follow-up.
Bumped to 0.2.4 and signed for the OTA endpoint — first real
independent add-on ship: no Theseus release needed to fix this,
0.3.27 installs pick up 0.2.4 via the boot-time signed-update poll.
Three tied-together fixes:
1) captureTab moves from WebContents.capturePage() to CDP
Page.captureScreenshot for every mode (visible / full / region).
Blank-screenshot symptom: after a toolbar-menu selection, the OS
popup teardown left the tab view marked occluded for a few frames
on some Windows setups, so capturePage() snapshotted a
stale/transparent frame at the correct dimensions — no 0x0, no
retry hit. CDP forces a fresh composite regardless of occlusion
state (same path the "Full page" mode was already using) and
returns a base64 PNG directly; PNG dimensions come out of the
IHDR chunk (bytes 16-24). Attach only when nothing else has, and
detach after only if WE attached, so an open DevTools stays
attached.
2) Editor gets a Discard button. Toolbar picks up an "×" glyph next
to Save/Copy that closes the editor tab and drops the working
screenshot. Top-level Escape now falls through the same path
after unwinding an in-flight text placement or crop rectangle. A
new "addon-tab-close" IPC lets an add-on's own tab close itself
(main matches the sender's webContents id against the tab list,
so a page can only close its own tab); window.silentmode.closeTab()
exposes it from addon-tab-preload.js.
3) Manual update controls in Settings > Extensions. New "Check for
updates" button at the top of the Extensions surface calls the
same signed-update polling the boot timer runs; the result is
surfaced inline ("All extensions are up to date" / "N updates
staged; restart Theseus to apply"). A "Pending updates" box
below lists what's in <userData>/addons-updates-staged/ so the
user knows what will be promoted on next restart.
Toolbar-menu popup settle bumped from 120 ms to 250 ms with an
explicit win.focus() in the popup close callback — the previous
window wasn't enough on slower Windows setups. CDP capture no longer
depends on this delay anyway, but the settle still helps any add-on
that does DOM work in its click handler before capture.
Screenshot add-on bumped 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discard button; capture
fixes come from the host, not the add-on).
Reworks the screenshot addon into the flow the user asked for: the
dock icon opens a small dropdown menu (Visible viewport / Full page /
Region…) instead of the sidebar picker, and each capture opens a
full browser tab hosting an editor.
Two new addon-host capabilities land alongside:
- toolbar-menu: the addon declares an icon + item list in its manifest;
the chrome dock renders a button that, on click, opens a small menu
and dispatches the selection to the addon via addon-menu-select IPC.
- open-tab: api.openTab(path) opens a browser tab whose URL is the
addon's local file. Origin-gated per addon; the editor uses a
dedicated addon-tab-preload for its main → renderer bridge.
Editor page (editor.html/js/css):
- Crop, arrow, rectangle, circle, freehand pen, text, blur
- Colour swatches (red / yellow / acid / white / black), 3 stroke widths
- Undo/redo command stack, zoom controls
- Save PNG (goes through the download pipeline, chip picks it up)
- Copy to clipboard via ClipboardItem
