The Store install of Claude Desktop lives under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Claude_<publisher-id>\, and its "AppData\Roaming"
is virtualised to LocalCache\Roaming inside that package. The classic
%APPDATA%\Claude\ folder is never read by the Store app, so a
claude_desktop_config.json dropped there is invisible to it; Theseus's
old existence check against path.dirname of that classic path was both
false-negative (nothing in classic, Store present) and false-positive
(empty classic folder left over, Store the real install) — the user saw
"Not installed on this computer" with Claude Desktop clearly running.
desktopConfigPath now looks for a Claude_<id> package first and uses
its LocalCache\Roaming\Claude path when present; otherwise it falls back
to the classic path. Added a desktopInstalled() helper that treats any
of: the config dir, a Store package, %LOCALAPPDATA%\AnthropicClaude,
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Claude, or Program Files\Claude as proof of an
install. register() mkdirSyncs the chosen path so the Store case
succeeds on first write.
New row in the connector panel: Simultaneous sessions. Three radios —
1 only / Multi / No limit — and a number input next to Multi for the
exact cap (clamped 1-100). Default stays at no limit, so existing users
see no behaviour change until they pick a value.
On the server side, initialize counts live sessions first (a GC pass over
expired ones runs so an abandoned tab doesn't permanently hold a slot)
and refuses any that would push past the cap with 429 and a message the
client surfaces to the user ("Theseus is at its simultaneous-session
cap (<N>). Disconnect a client, or raise the limit..."). Lowering the
cap below the live count is non-retroactive: no one gets kicked, but the
next connect fails until one goes away.
Settings surface widened: publicState() carries sessionLimit, and a new
set-session-limit message writes it (persisted in the add-on's storage
alongside token / port / allowEvaluate).
Open-with menu label — Windows was showing the per-extension ProgID's
default value, which was set to "Theseus HTML Document". That looked
verbose next to the real brand name, and the per-ext label never changed
regardless of which extension the user right-clicked. Shortened to just
"Theseus Navigator". The ApplicationDescription under Capabilities is
dropped too — Default Apps uses it as a tooltip and the sentence it held
was noise.
File associations are now auto-registered on first launch. The toggle in
Settings is dropped: the entries live under HKCU with no admin, cause no
harm by being present, and the common case (right-click an .html on your
desktop, see Theseus in the Open-with menu) is strictly better than the
previous "toggle it on first" step. Two per-profile flags remember the
rollout (fileAssocsAutoApplied) and the one-time 0.3.124 label rewrite
(fileAssocsLabelFixed_1); a user who removes the entries by hand stays
opted out.
Settings sidebar — the Plug-ins nav entry is renamed System and now holds
a chevron to Names & Certificates (which is no longer a separate top-
level nav entry). The underlying section id stays "plugins" so the
plugins-ariadne / plugins-aegis crumbs and any existing deep links keep
working. Names & Certificates picks up a System › crumb at the top.
The "Did you mean" row on name-unreachable / name-not-registered used to
show only URL suggestions (BCNR warm-index matches + ICANN TLD swaps).
It now also carries a trailing "🔎 Search '<host>'" chip that defers to
the user's default search engine, so a DNS failure where none of the URL
alternatives look right still gives a one-click recovery path.
When no URL alternative surfaces at all — just the search chip is enough
on its own — the row's label softens from "Did you mean" to "Not sure
what you were after?" so a bare search chip reads naturally.
Settings page UX restructure.
- Nav bar: reordered to General, Language, Search, Passwords, Performance,
Privacy, Names & Certificates, Plug-ins, Ariadne's Thread, Aegis,
Extensions, Sidebar, Apps. Dropped the top-level Theseus ID entry;
Theseus ID is reachable from General now. Added two new top-level
entries — Ariadne's Thread and Aegis — each a small landing section
that chevrons into the existing plug-in sub-page (Ariadne) or opens the
wallet panel via openPanel("aegis:main") (Aegis).
- General section: first four rows are now Make-Theseus-default, Theseus
Shield (chevron + on/off toggle), Startup (restore tabs), Updates
(version + Check button), followed by a Theseus ID chevron row.
Appearance / Developer tools / Registries / About stay below in the
same order. Removed the "Default handling" sub-head; the default-
browser and file-associations rows moved to the top. The Shield row
uses listAddons() + setAddonEnabled("blocker", on) for state; the
chevron falls back to openPanel("blocker:main").
- Names & Certificates: dropped the always-on BNS row at the top.
- Plug-ins main page: Ariadne's Thread and Aegis rows removed — they
moved to top-level. The page now links into the new landing sections.
Hidden placeholders keep the DOM ids (ariadneStatusMain, aegisCheckMain
…) so the shared refresh code keeps working. Sub-pages (plugins-
ariadne, plugins-aegis) untouched.
- Extensions list: Hermes and Pithos hidden from the list (they live in
the Sidebar card now). docx-editor and pdf-editor sort last within
each group so smaller utilities stay near the top.
- Toolbar add-on strip (chrome.html): same last-sort rule for docx-editor
and pdf-editor, applied to the rank() ordering so unknown keys without
a saved dockOrder keep registration order and the editors land past
them.
- Sidebar section: added two cards at the top. "Theseus native apps"
(Hermes + Pithos) and "Third-party apps" (the sidebar quick-links /
Web apps). Native apps appear first. The Extension panels section
still lists everything else that opens from the strip; Hermes and
Pithos are filtered out of it so they don't appear twice.
- Version bumped to 0.3.122. No new IPCs — reuses listAddons,
setAddonEnabled, openPanel, sidebarLeftPanels, addonInvoke.
New Settings › General › Default handling section (Windows only, hidden on
other platforms until there is a backing path for them). Two toggles:
* "Make Theseus the default browser" registers Theseus for http and https
via app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient and lands the user on Windows
Settings › Default apps so they can confirm the switch — Windows does
not let an app assert itself as default, so we do what we can and point
them at the UI that owns the final decision.
* "Show Open with Theseus in file menus" writes HKCU\Software\Classes
entries for .html, .htm, .pdf, .svg and .xhtml so Theseus appears in
the Open-with dropdown for those files. Everything lands under HKCU
(no admin). A matching RegisteredApplications\Theseus Navigator entry
makes Theseus visible by name in Settings › Default apps.
Also handles file paths and URL arguments on the command line — this is
what Windows passes when the user picks Theseus from an Open-with menu, or
clicks a link in another app once Theseus is the default. argv[0] is the
exe; the first entry that is a recognised scheme (http/https/file/bns) or
an existing local file wins and opens as a new tab. Second-instance was
already wired to handleLaunch via requestSingleInstanceLock, so a running
Theseus just picks up the file.
The 0.3.106 switch from a native menu to an HTML overlay for Pick AI gave the
overlay a client-side window.blur handler that called api.close(). In the
engine picker (same pattern) the close-on-click-away is driven from main
with a `win.isFocused()` guard, so a focus flicker between the strip view
and the pop does not count as a click-away; the LLM overlay missed that
guard, so Electron's own view-to-view focus flicker on open was enough to
close the picker the moment it opened. From 0.3.106 through 0.3.119 the
Pick-AI button looked like a no-op: it rendered the pop internally (the DOM
was there, 7 rows) but setVisible flipped back off before paint. Users saw
a blank click.
Fix is the same contract the engine, language, downloads and site-info
pickers use: closeOnClickAway on main, no blur handler on the client.
`llmPickerVisible` is tracked alongside setVisible so the gate can read it.
The focus() call on open now runs only when the window is actually focused
(same guard the other overlays use). The raise() call also passed
`primaryW?.win` where a window record was expected, so the view never
re-parented when a secondary window became primary — fixed to pass the
record.
Also renames DuckDuckGo AI → Duck AI in the engine catalog. duck.ai is
Duck's own branded entry for the chat UI and matches what the host lands
on; the longer name was ambiguous next to the DuckDuckGo search entry.
The toolbar magnifier dropdown mixed search engines and AI chat engines in one
list, which left the Pick-AI button on the sidebar strip looking redundant and
cluttered the thing people reach for when they want to find something on the
web. The dropdown is now search-only; LLMs are picked through the strip's own
AI picker overlay (which already lists them with real icons).
LLM order follows rough global popularity so a fresh profile defaults to the
one most people reach for: ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DuckAI, Alisa,
Qwen. Three additions along with it:
* DuckAI (duck.ai) — anonymous, no sign-up, serves GPT-4o mini + Claude 3
Haiku + Llama 3 + Mistral behind one URL. Also wired as a toolbar search
target with pre-filled answer via &ia=chat.
* Alisa (ya.ru/alisa) — Russian-language assistant from Yandex.
* Qwen (chat.qwen.ai) — Alibaba's Tongyi chat; email sign-up, the strongest
non-mainland-phone access to a Chinese model.
Phind stays frozen (Vercel 404 at the root). A saved defaultLlmId pointing at
a frozen engine is cleared so the fallback resolves to the new list[0] rather
than silently flipping to whatever was second.
Engine home URLs can now opt into an override via a `home` field — needed by
DuckAI (its chat lives at the apex of duck.ai but prefers that URL over the
duckduckgo.com stem) and Alisa (chat UI lives at /alisa, not the apex of
ya.ru).
Phind's web UI returns a Vercel 404 at the root as of 2026-10-27, so
users who clicked Open AI with Phind as the default got a dark error
page. The engine is now marked frozen with a reason, which keeps the
Settings row visible with an explanation but takes it out of the
enabled list; anyone whose defaultLlmId was phind automatically falls
back to the next enabled engine (Perplexity).
AI picker icons move from runtime favicon fetch back to bundled files
(ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini return as engine-icons/*.svg — initial-on-color
tiles). The fetch path still runs as a fallback for custom engines and
anything else that lacks a bundle.
When a navigation hits ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED and the TLD is a well-known
ICANN one (.com/.net/.io/country codes/…), Theseus now shows the DNS-
flavoured 'This name didn't resolve' page instead of the BCNR-flavoured
'That name isn't registered' page. The BCNR page framed the failure as
'nobody has claimed this on-chain name, want to register it on Sirius?'
— confusing when the user typed a real .com whose DNS is temporarily
broken (hostile Wi-Fi AAAA mangling is the usual cause). The DNS page
leads with retry and search instead, and still mentions BCNR was tried.
Non-ICANN TLDs (.bch, .x, …) keep the register-first framing. The
TLD set is a static whitelist of the common ones — covers the long
tail of real sites without being exhaustive. Add more as needed.
The AI picker is now a sibling of the AI launch button in the sidebar
strip, not a chevron badge glued to its corner. Launch button still
opens the current engine in the left panel on click (right-click still
opens the picker, kept as a power-user shortcut). The new pick button
is a full-size strip icon with a three-row list glyph and its own
tooltip; keyboard Enter / Space activates it.
The Claude connector chip in the toolbar gained max-width + ellipsis
on its label, plus flex-shrink wiring, so the Claude 3 tabs string
never grows past 160 px and the search box keeps its text visible
even when the connector is actively streaming.
The sidebar AI button's chevron badge grows from a 10 px grey ghost in
the corner to a 14 px acid-coloured circle that reads at a glance, so
Pick AI engine is actually discoverable. Click or Enter still opens
the picker overlay; right-click on the AI button still works too.
Also wires emitQuickLinksState() into the icon-fetch completion path.
Before 0.3.115 the sidebar strip and the picker overlay kept showing
the engine sym emoji until some other state change re-emitted the
quicklinks payload. Now a freshly-fetched favicon lights up in the
strip and the picker on the same tick it finishes caching.
Moved the 30-second boot poll from whenReady+30s into onChromeReady so
restoreTabs' network fetches aren't competing with the add-on manifest
fetches for the first few seconds. The 4 h interval stays where it was.
Preload audit (no change needed): theseus-id-preload.js already short-
circuits in subframes (window.top === window guard), addon-inject-
preload.js keeps page scripts top-frame only by design, and
no-badge-preload.js intentionally covers service workers.
The ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Phind rows in the sidebar AI picker now
pull each site's own favicon through the same fetch-and-cache path
custom engines already use. The old placeholder color-letter tiles I
shipped in 0.3.106 are removed; the engine's sym emoji is the pre-fetch
fallback until the real favicon lands (cached per profile after that).
Change: fall back from bundledIcon(id) to customFavicon(https://<fav>/)
for built-in engines when no bundled file exists. Perplexity keeps its
existing bundled perplexity.png.
Three home-page tweaks:
- Removed the YOUR LINKS and SILENT MODE section headings; the two
panels now stand on their own without labels.
- The + Add card cell now matches the real cards' size and shape so
it reads as a peer of the grid rather than a short dashed strip.
- Empty slot cells in the left grid are invisible by default and
only reveal their dashed outline when you hover the strip or drag
a link over them. The + add-link cell stays visible as the
discoverable entry.
AI engine picker:
- The chevron badge on the AI button is now a plain span with the
button role, not a nested <button> inside the main AI button.
Chromium flattened the invalid nesting so the chevron's own click
handler never fired; the picker now opens from the chevron and
from keyboard Enter / Space as well as right-click.
Performance (Settings > Performance > Startup):
- Pithos ships with activation: on-demand; its control server for
s3d no longer boots at launch. Wakes on first panel open or a
pithos.sia navigation.
- Hermes relay auto-restore (1.5 s after launch) is now gated by a
new setting hermesAutoRestore (default on). Turn it off to skip
background Nostr relay connections for users who don't live in
Hermes.
- New setting pithosAtLaunch (default off) mirrors the existing
walletAtLaunch so users who do want Pithos ready at launch can
opt back in.
- The Lightest preset now also turns off pithosAtLaunch and
hermesAutoRestore.
First click of the toolbar's address bar or the home page's search field
now selects the current text so the next keystroke replaces it — the
long-standing Chrome / Firefox behaviour the two inputs were missing.
A second click (while already focused) falls through to native cursor
placement, so inline editing still works.
Silent Mode cards switch from a vertical icon-above-title-above-sub
layout to a horizontal one: a left stack holds the icon and the title,
the description sits on the right with left-aligned text and up to
three lines. Backgrounds move from the solid --card tone to a 55%
rgba with a 10 px backdrop blur so the wallpaper reads through.
Home tagline updated: 'Names that live on the Bitcoin Cash chain'
becomes 'Names that live on decentralized blockchain'. The address-bar
tip now points at hello.bch by name so the first step is obvious.
Right-click on a tab now shows a Save page as submenu with PDF and
Image (PNG) items. PDF uses webContents.printToPDF (A4, prefers CSS
page size, prints backgrounds); PNG uses webContents.capturePage of
the visible viewport. Both open a save dialog with a filename derived
from the tab title or hostname, write to the chosen path, and register
the result in the downloads list.
The Claude connector's design doc now ships at
theseus.x/dev/claude-connector/DESIGN-claude-connector.md so readers
on the site do not have to leave for the forge; the Developers page
links the local copy first and the forge mirror alongside it.
Hero mark now sits in front of the "Theseus Navigator" wordmark inside a
translucent rounded panel, so the identity reads on any wallpaper. The
tag line and the hint got their own matching pill backings for the same
reason.
Left-column slots grew from a fixed 3-column grid in a 240–280 px panel
to an auto-fill grid in a 360–440 px panel — about 5 columns of 72 px
tiles instead of 3, so more quick-launch icons fit without the panel
feeling cramped. No change to the icons themselves.
Home page splits into two self-contained panels so the left-column
links no longer scale with the Silent Mode cards. The slot grid is
narrower, the icons default closer to Windows desktop-shortcut size,
and each section carries its own subtle panel background and heading.
Claude connector hardening (the opt-in MCP add-on from 0.3.106):
- Pin the approved origin to the TabDriver on every Controller.use()
and re-check the tab's current URL before each CDP read / input
(isolated, snapshot, screenshot, clickAt, insertText, press,
setFiles, evaluate). A meta-refresh or soft-nav to an unapproved
origin between approval and the call now throws instead of leaking
content or steering input to the new site.
- Rotate the bearer token on every stop() so toggling the connector
off (toolbar chip, panel switch, deactivate) invalidates existing
credentials. Re-enabling issues a fresh token; the panel's install
strings update on the next start. Matches the mental model where
"off" means "the keys change" instead of "the server stops".
- click without a ref now resolves the element at (x, y) through
DOM.getNodeForLocation and refuses if it's a password / one-time-
code field. Previously only ref-based click ran isSecretField; raw
coordinates let focus land on a password field before FOCUS_GUARD
kicked in to block typing.
Right-click or chevron-click on the sidebar strip's AI button now opens
a borderless overlay instead of a plain native menu: enabled engines
are listed with their bundled icons, the current engine is highlighted
with the acid accent + check, and a settings row at the bottom jumps
to Search settings. Clicking an engine selects it as the default and
opens it in the left panel in one click.
Bundled engine icons gained an svg-first fallback: engine-icons/<id>.svg
is picked up before <id>.png so plain color-coded letter tiles ship
alongside the existing bitmap favicons. Added tiles for ChatGPT, Grok,
Gemini and Phind — each a simple initial-on-color mark.
Left column slot grid grows to a visible 3-column fixed cell layout.
Each link can be pinned to a specific slot by dropping onto an empty
cell; unpinned links flow top-to-bottom through the remaining cells.
Dropping an item onto another slot swaps the two positions, so the
grid never collapses underneath the user.
The Ariadne.X home card now uses the brand kit's "ivory on dark"
mark (variant-ivory-glow) instead of the terracotta pottery sketch.
The ivory bust reads cleanly against the navy card surface — the
pottery version was designed for cream backgrounds and got lost
against the dark card.
A wiz:// link that opens a new window with rel="noreferrer" (Potidaea's "Open in wallet", and many other dapps) was dropped before it reached the wallet; a click on one in the page now opens Aegis's pairing approval. Links inside iframes are still refused.
Right-click on a sidebar panel (WhatsApp, Telegram, LLMs, add-on panels
like Hermes) now opens a native menu with Copy image / Save image as /
Open link in new tab / Copy / Back / Forward / Reload. Previously the
sidebar views had no context-menu listener attached, so sites like
WhatsApp Web that intercept right-click left the user with no way to
copy an image.
Hermes mark in the sidebar strip now zooms to the V-fold and wings;
envelope body partially visible. The original viewBox had ~43% empty
space top-and-bottom, so the glyph rendered at ~15 px inside the 26 px
icon frame.
The slot grid on the left of the home page switches from `repeat(3, 1fr)`
to `repeat(3, 100px)` with `justify-content: start`. Cells no longer
stretch to fill the column, so icons sit in a tight desktop-style grid
anchored to the left edge instead of drifting inside wide 1fr cells.
The 900px breakpoint keeps 100px cells and left-anchors them too.
Also carries the Hermes brand kit updates that landed on master between
0.3.101 and now — the Hermes.X Silent Mode card now renders the new
blue envelope mark from home-brand/hermes-mark.svg instead of the old
inline red envelope. The sidebar strip icon size for Hermes was bumped
to 26px in the same cycle to balance the new mark's negative space.
Three more LLM engines land in the catalog and in DEFAULT_ENABLED, so the
sparkle button's picker lists five AI engines out of the box: Perplexity,
Phind, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini. The first two answer a URL query without any
login, the latter three need a free-tier account; all three accept the
chat URL as the "open the home" target, which is what the sidebar button
needs. A one-time offer migration adds them to any existing profile's
enabledEngines (users who disable one keep it off across restarts via a
new `enginesOffered` field).
Sidebar strip polish. The gear button now opens Settings › Sidebar on a
single click instead of popping a one-item native menu first. The "+"
add button under the gear is removed — adding a web app goes through
Settings › Sidebar anyway, which the gear opens. The quicklinks-add IPC
is kept but repointed to Settings › Sidebar (it used to open General,
which was the wrong page for the add-a-web-app flow).
0.3.99 installed users hit "Cannot find package 'nostr-tools' imported from
resources/lib/hermes.mjs" the first time they tried the Create account /
Open existing account button on the Hermes panel. The module was extracted
to resources/lib/ via extraResources (so the same .mjs/.js pattern as the
other lib files), but every other extracted .mjs happens to only pull
node:* builtins — hermes.mjs is the first one that needs real npm deps.
Node's resolver walks up from resources/lib/hermes.mjs looking for a
node_modules sibling and finds nothing: node_modules lives inside app.asar,
unreachable from an extracted file.
Fix: extraResources the nostr-tools dir + its three dep namespaces + the
one WASM dep so the walk finds them.
The gear popover at the bottom of the left strip is reduced to a single
"Open sidebar settings" item; the overlay/push radio and "Reset panel
widths" controls move to Settings › Sidebar permanently, so there's one
source of truth for the sidebar's own options.
A new sparkle button is added below the icon stack: it opens the user's
default AI engine (any search engine with kind=llm — Perplexity ships
on by default now; Phind is in the catalog). Click opens the engine in
the left panel like the existing web-app quick-links; right-click (or
the small chevron in the button's corner) pops a native menu of every
enabled LLM, each one-click to switch default + open. The button hides
itself when no LLM engine is enabled.
Hermes consolidation. The hermes.x web quick-link added in 0.3.99 is
retracted — the bundled Hermes extension already registers a left-strip
panel (side: "left"), so the web link was duplicating it. Any profile
that caught 0.3.99 gets the stray entry yanked on first load.
Ctrl+Shift+E now opens the Hermes panel in the active window's left
sidebar instead of the standalone Messages BrowserWindow; the window
is still reachable via the ⧉ pop-out button in the panel header for
users who want a free-floating client. The home-page Silent Mode card
for Hermes.X comes back (it's a link to the web page, not a shortcut
to the panel — different purpose).
Two more resolvers under Settings › Names & Certificates. SNS — .sol names
resolve through Bonfida's public SDK proxy, preferring an explicit URL
record over an IPFS record (served via a configurable IPFS gateway).
Unstoppable Domains — the full UD TLD roster (.crypto, .nft, .wallet,
.bitcoin, .blockchain, .dao, …) through resolve.unstoppabledomains.com;
browser.redirect_url takes precedence over an ipfs record. .x stays with
BNS — the UD adapter explicitly skips it so a Sirius registration can
never be shadowed by an Unstoppable one.
Both proxies are Cloudflare-fronted; users on blocked IPs can swap the
endpoint in Advanced. The handshake adapter's skip-list grows to cover
.sol and every UD TLD so a user with HNS + UD + SNS all enabled gets the
specific adapter, never the generic hns.to gateway, for those names.
Hermes.X moves from the home page's Silent Mode card grid to the Theseus
left-sidebar quick-link strip, slotting in right after Proton Mail. The
default list grows to 6 entries; existing profiles pick it up through the
LATER_DEFAULTS one-time offer (same mechanism Proton used in 0.3.88).
Users who still have Hermes on their custom home page can remove it manually.
Two more adapters under Settings › Names & Certificates:
Namecoin — .bit names resolve by calling name_show "d/<name>" on the
configured JSON-RPC endpoint and following `translate` or `alias` records
to a clearnet host. Pure IP records aren't followed yet (that needs
in-browser DNS override + TLS pinning, which comes later). Namecoin has
no free public RPC, so the toggle is off by default and the row carries a
"Needs an RPC URL" note instead of a "Not wired yet" one; set yours in
Advanced.
Handshake — non-ICANN hostnames resolve through the public hns.to web
gateway (user-overridable in Advanced). hns.to proxies the request to a
Handshake node and serves the on-chain content. A bundled list of common
ICANN TLDs (original gTLDs + popular new gTLDs + every ccTLD) keeps the
default collision policy ("icann-wins") from hijacking clearnet names.
Setting the policy to "hns-wins" removes that gate.
Both adapters follow the ENS adapter's shape — tryExtraResolvers in main.js
calls each in turn after the BNS lookup; the first one that returns a URL
loads it. Settings copy on both rows updated.
First real resolver behind the Names & Certificates toggles. When the ENS
switch is on, typing a .eth name in the address bar runs:
1. namehash(name) (EIP-137 keccak256 recursion)
2. eth_call resolver(bytes32) on the ENS registry
3. eth_call contenthash(bytes32) on the returned resolver address
4. decode EIP-1577 (varint protocol + CID) → ipfs|ipns|swarm
5. navigate to <gateway>/ipfs/<cid> (or /ipns/<cid>)
The adapter lives in lib/resolvers/ens.cjs; main.js's navigateTab calls it
through tryExtraResolvers after the BNS check and before the clearnet
fallback. Defaults: publicnode's free Ethereum RPC (Cloudflare's eth-RPC
returns "Internal error" for ENS calls in testing) and ipfs.io as the
gateway (Cloudflare retired their IPFS gateway in 2024). Both are
user-overridable in Settings › Names & Certificates › Advanced.
CIDv0 (Qm… base58) and CIDv1 (bafy… base32) both encode; swarm names
cache a "not yet supported" negative result for one minute until we add a
swarm gateway option. Positive answers cache for 10 min, negatives for 1 min.
The left-column icons return to a fixed 3-column grid, each icon in its own
cell. Drag reorders which cell holds which icon, with before/after indicators
matching the right-side cards. Drops out of x,y positioning: no more free-
floating icons sticking against the card grid; defaults flow left-to-right
across the three cells. The "+" add button sits in the next free cell at
the end of the slot grid.
Homepage max-width widens to 1680px (from 1400) so on wide screens the left
column doesn't crowd the cards. Legacy x,y values on stored icons are
ignored by the renderer (array order is what shows).
New top-level settings page lets the user pre-configure which non-BNS name
systems Theseus will resolve (ENS, Namecoin, Handshake, SNS, Unstoppable)
and which extra TLS roots it will trust (Russian National CA, scoped by TLD).
BNS is always on; everything else is off by default. Each resolver row has
its own Advanced disclosure for RPC URL, gateway, endpoint and collision
policy. The Russian CA row's Advanced holds the comma-separated TLD scope
list that limits what the CA can sign for (default .ru/.рф/.gov.ru/.online.ru).
State persists to %APPDATA%\Theseus\extra-resolvers.json via settings-only
IPC (extra-resolvers-get / extra-resolvers-set / extra-resolvers-reset,
origin-gated to the settings page). The adapters and setCertificateVerifyProc
hook that read this file land in 0.3.96 (ENS) → 0.3.99 (Russian CA); each
row's "Not wired yet — coming in 0.3.9X" caption goes away as its adapter
ships. No home.html change in this release.
The left column goes back to free positioning: each icon stores its own
x,y and snaps to a 20px grid; a faint grid shows underneath while dragging
so placement feels OS-desktop. Live-move via pointer events (clicks still
navigate thanks to a 4px move threshold). Dropping a left icon over the
right card grid re-parents it as a card; dropping a card onto the left
area turns it into a free-positioned icon.
Silent Mode cards get their one-line description back under the title.
Add/edit modal gains a Description field. Defaults seed sub-text on every
Silent Mode card and x,y on every Your-links icon.
The left column grows from a single narrow stack to a 3-wide grid of slots
so added icons flow sideways instead of pushing the page tall. The "+" add
button sits in the next free cell of that same grid. Drag-reorder on the
left column switches from above/below to before/after indicators to match
the right-side cards; both sections are 2D grids now.
Pulls the Theseus Navigator hero (compass + title + search + .bch tip) back
to the top so identity + search stay the first thing on the page. Underneath,
the two-column desktop keeps the shape from 0.3.91 but drops the second
search bar: a narrow left column of stackable slot tiles (hello.bch,
sia.coin, Pithos.sia, Bergamot.X, + add) and a 3-column grid of nine Silent
Mode cards on the right. Right-click opens context menus — background edits
(change bg, icon size, add link/card, reset) on empty space, and copy image
/ copy link / open / edit / remove on any icon or card. Copy image renders
the brand mark to a 256px PNG and writes it with navigator.clipboard.write.
Slot order is HTML5 drag-and-drop between either column; schema is v5 and
passes through migrateCards unchanged.
Three changes to the desktop home that landed in 0.3.90:
- Hero header is back. The compass mark, Theseus Navigator title, tagline
and search sit centered at the top of the page, same shape as the home
before the desktop redesign. The Edit button moves to the top-right
corner so the hero reads as identity, not chrome.
- Silent Mode on the right is CARDS again, not just tiles. Each card
carries the brand icon on the left, title + one-line description
stacked, and a muted acid-colored badge on the right (Navigator /
Registrar / Code host / ...). Cards sit in a center-right column that
stops before the right edge, giving the left column breathing room.
- Your-links on the left is free-drag, OS-desktop style. Each icon
stores x,y and snaps to a 20px grid; dragging an icon moves it live
while the grid faintly shows underneath. The schema gains x,y on
Your-links items — unchanged for Silent Mode cards. Legacy icons
without x,y auto-layout in a tidy 2-column grid near the top.
Compass mark replaces the chain emoji in the hero. The on-disk schema
nudges to v4; v3 and v1 reads still migrate (missing x,y get an
auto-layout fallback at render time).
The new-tab page is now a two-column desktop. The right column holds the
curated Silent Mode X-family (Theseus.X, SilentMode.X, Sirius.X,
Hephaestus.X, Prometheus.X, Hermes.X, Helios.X, Ariadne.X, Aegis.X) with
real brand marks pulled from each product's own favicon or add-on manifest.
The left column is yours — hello.bch, sia.coin, Pithos.sia, Bergamot.X by
default, plus whatever you add. Icons pick up and move within and across
columns in edit mode.
Edit mode also carries per-column default-size pickers (S / M / L / XL),
six background presets + a custom colour + an image upload, and + slots
in each column. The Ariadne.X mark uses the real face/thread illustration
in ancient-Greek-pottery colours (terracotta rings on cream). The Aegis.X
tile matches the one the add-on itself ships.
The on-disk format moves from a bare array of cards (v1) to a v3 object:
{ version:3, iconSize, quickSize, background, sections:{ sm, q } }
On first read, a v1 array lands as sections.q and the Silent Mode column
stays at the code default. The remote home-cards.json URL is still
accepted as either shape; migrateCards() normalises before use.
The web app rows in Settings showed a letter where the strip shows the
app's icon. The icons now live in strip-icons.js, shared by both. Typing
the start of a well-known app's name or address in the add row shows the
rest in grey, the address field offers that app's address, and the right
arrow takes it.
An open sidebar panel (a web app or an extension panel) now has a bar on
top with its name, Maximize/Restore (it covers the page, up to the right
sidebar) and Close. How panels sit next to the page is a choice, in the
new gear above + on the strip and in Settings > Sidebar: over the page,
where it floats on the left of a page that keeps its width and a click in
the page closes it; or pushing the page aside, where it stays open until
closed. That choice replaces the pin, which only existed to keep a panel
open on a page click.
Also: a window laid out while minimized reads a zero-size area, so every
view was left at 0x0 and the window came back blank until resized.
Layout now skips a minimized window and runs again on restore.
Any site could call navigator.setAppBadge(n) and Electron drew n over the
app's taskbar icon. Every site wrote the same single number, so the icon
showed a count with no way to tell whose it was. A session-wide preload now
removes the Badging API in pages and service workers, so sites fall back to
their own title or favicon counters.
Logins typed in a quick link (X, Telegram, WhatsApp, …) are offered for saving, saved ones are offered and filled there, and sites that accept Theseus ID can use it from the sidebar.
- The password manager offers to save, and fills, logins in sign-in forms
embedded in iframes (payment providers, single sign-on widgets), keyed to
the frame's own site.
- PIN pads: Unlock (or Enter) beside Cancel instead of submitting on the
last digit; a new PIN is any 6 to 8 digits with Next; larger keys; calmer
hover so the pad no longer seems to flash as you type.
0.3.80 shipped with the Settings left menu squeezed into a short centred
box (a .app class clash from the Apps list, fixed in 882b6fb). This is
0.3.80 plus that fix.
