Skin is a launch-time choice; stop applying it to a live window

Switching Modern -> Win7 at runtime broke the UI. SettingsService.applySkin
toggled the `.win7` class the moment the setting changed — harmless when there
was one component tree, and a broken window as soon as there were two. The tree
is bootstrapped once from the preload-baked __APP_SKIN, so the live flip painted
7.css onto shadlike markup that has no .window.glass, no .title-bar, no
menu[role=tablist] and no <table> ListView. The CSS landed on a tree that cannot
receive it.

A reload would not have helped, and neither would anything short of a restart:

- The preload is a persistent WebKitUserScript injected at DOCUMENT_START, so
  its string is frozen at webview construction — loadURL() re-runs it with the
  OLD __APP_SKIN. updatePreloadScriptToWebView exists in the FFI but is
  reachable only from electrobun's internal <electrobun-webview> handler.
- titleBarStyle/transparent have no setters; a live window cannot be re-framed.
  win7 -> modern is the dangerous direction — the modern tree draws no title
  bar, so it would land in a frameless transparent window with no way to move,
  minimize or close it.
- Recreating the main window is also out: exitOnLastWindowClosed is true, the
  main rpc is captured by six push closures, the tray captures `win`, and
  listeners cannot be removed.

So: applySkin is deleted outright, from setSkin AND from applyAll — the latter
matters independently, since applyAll runs on the settingsChanged push and was
therefore breaking every open editor and manager window too. Clicking a skin now
only persists it.

Also fixed a second leak found while tracing this: manager-window and
editor-windows build from `currentSettings()`, the LIVE snapshot, so a window
opened after a pending change would boot the new tree and frame while main still
ran the old one. `initSessionSkin` now freezes the skin at startup before any
window exists, and buildPreload/chromeOptions read that pinned value —
chromeOptions loses its parameter so no call site can get it wrong.

The options row shows the saved value as pending (skinPending() compares
settings.skin() against APP_SKIN) with the hint retexted in all 7 locales; it
said "Reopen the window to change its frame", which described the deleted
design.

Verified: tsc + build:ui clean; both skins boot correctly from a persisted
setting (win7 frameless, modern with the native frame). The live flip is now
impossible by construction, which is the check that matters here — the UI bundle
contains no classList write for win7 at all, the only writer is buildPreload,
and sessionSkin has exactly one assignment site.

Not verified: the click itself and the pending hint appearing, which need an
interaction pass — no window automation is available here. Both are present in
the built bundle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-16 14:56:16 +02:00
co-authored by Claude
parent 5bbfc2f475
commit c8ccc6b918
15 changed files with 168 additions and 63 deletions
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@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ import { migrateLegacyDataDir } from "./store/paths";
import { SettingsStore } from "./store/settings";
import { AppTray } from "./tray";
import { TransferEngine } from "./transfers/engine";
import { buildPreload, chromeOptions, showWhenReady, trackMaximizeState } from "./windows";
import {
buildPreload,
chromeOptions,
initSessionSkin,
showWhenReady,
trackMaximizeState,
} from "./windows";
const PROD_URL = "views://app/index.html";
@@ -76,6 +82,11 @@ const url = await getMainViewUrl();
// fresh via the saveSettings flow below.
let currentSettings = await settings.load();
setBackendLocale(currentSettings.locale); // native menus/errors follow the UI language
// Freeze the skin for this process BEFORE any window is constructed. It picks
// a component tree and a native frame, neither of which can change on a live
// window, so the persisted value may only take effect at the next start — see
// initSessionSkin.
initSessionSkin(currentSettings.skin);
const win = new BrowserWindow({
title: BRANDING.appName,
@@ -87,8 +98,8 @@ const win = new BrowserWindow({
y: 120,
},
// Frame decision lives in chromeOptions — see windows.ts. Constructor-only,
// so a skin change reaches the frame on the NEXT open, not live.
...chromeOptions(currentSettings.skin),
// and read from the pinned session skin, not from currentSettings.
...chromeOptions(),
// lets the UI pick the fused layout + theme before first paint
preload: buildPreload("main", currentSettings),
rpc,