`bun run start` died on Linux with ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED (missing
libayatana-appindicator3.so.1). Fixing the environment exposed the real gap:
electrobun's ContextMenu.showContextMenu is a documented no-op on Linux, and
since the UI suppresses the webview's own right-click menu, EVERY panel context
menu was silently dead there — Send to Other Panel, Open, Rename, Permissions,
Delete, Copy Path, Reveal and the column picker all unreachable. Electrobun
itself logs "Application menus are not supported on Linux. Implement menu UI in
your webview HTML instead." at boot.
- Context menus are now HTML on EVERY platform (ui/src/app/context-menu.ts +
context-menu.service.ts), not just as a Linux fallback: one implementation
cannot drift from a second one. The item builders are ported verbatim from
the old bun menu, so ordering, per-platform labels and the Windows-local
chmod hide are unchanged, and picks are emitted as the same `ctx-*` / `col:*`
strings through RpcService.emitMenuAction — App.handleMenuAction is untouched
and still the single dispatcher for both the macOS menubar and right-clicks.
Adds what the native menu gave for free: arrow/Enter/Escape keys, viewport
edge-flip, close on blur/resize/scroll. The Edit item now shows the real F4
hint instead of the native menu's "e" mnemonic.
- New shellItemAction RPC replaces showRowMenu/showColumnsMenu — the only part
the webview can't do itself (reveal, open-with-default, copy path). Deletes
src/bun/context-menu.ts entirely.
- release.ts gains a linux-x64 target. Electrobun emits only the .tar.zst
updater blob on Linux, so the artifact is a .tar.gz of the assembled app
folder, mirroring the Windows portable zip.
- Docs: platform-notes gets a Linux runtime-dependency table (AppIndicator is
linked HARD — a missing lib is a boot failure, not a degraded tray), the
ldd diagnostic, GNOME tray caveat, known issues and a first-boot smoke test;
gotchas gets the ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED trail and the benign GLX/GBM startup
noise; architecture/build-and-release/README updated accordingly.
Verified: backend `tsc --noEmit` clean, `bun run build:ui` clean (399 kB
initial), app boots on Linux with no errors beyond the documented benign
warnings. NOT verified on macOS/Windows — the native menu is retired on those
platforms too, so the menus need eyeballing on a Mac before the next release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Custom signal-based runtime (no i18n dependency): shared src/shared/i18n
dictionaries, ui I18nService.t() reactive by construction so language
switches live, and a backend i18n.ts for native menus + thrown errors.
Every user-facing string keyed across templates, toasts, dialogs, file
kinds, columns, macOS menu/context menus, and errors. Language picker in
Options (auto-detects OS locale, falls back to English); switching
relabels the webview and native chrome instantly. English/Spanish/French/
German fully drafted; Chinese/Japanese/Basque drafted, flagged for native
review. Docs updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
External editor via cmd/start + exe picker; Permissions hidden for
Windows-local (chmod only flips read-only there); Explorer/Recycle Bin
wording; Ctrl vs Cmd shortcut labels; separator-aware path joins +
drive-root detection; drives list in the panel source picker; icon.ico
+ colored tray icon; icacls ACL on connections.json; README Windows
(beta) section with upstream known issues and a smoke-test checklist.
Runtime paths pending first boot on a real Windows machine.
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Real BrowserWindow per edited file with its own RPC instance, deduped by
sessionId+path. The same Angular bundle boots an editor-only root via
preload globals. Native close isn't cancellable in electrobun, so the
editor mirrors its draft to bun; traffic-light closes get a native
Save/Discard prompt after the fact, and failed saves park the draft in
the edit-leftovers dir. In-window closes (Cmd+W, Close) use a styled
prompt; the quit guard now also counts unsaved editors.
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Native menus (electrobun ContextMenu) on rows and empty panel space. Rows:
Open (dirs navigate; local files open with the default app via Utils.openPath),
Edit, Copy to Other Panel, Rename, Permissions, Copy Path (works for remote
paths too), Reveal in Finder (local, Utils.showItemInFolder), Move to Trash
(local, Utils.moveToTrash — tooltip notes Finder Restore doesn't apply) and
Delete. Empty space / '..': New Folder, New File, Refresh, Reveal in Finder.
Right-click parks the cursor on the row (keeping the selection when clicking
inside it). Local shell actions run bun-side directly; everything else routes
through the existing menuAction channel back to the stored click target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Built-in editor (default): large modal with monospace textarea, Cmd+S save,
dirty guard; reads/writes through the provider streams so it works on local
and remote files identically (2MB cap with a friendly error)
- External editor: remote files download to appDataDir/edits/<id>, open via
macOS `open -a`, the temp DIR is watched (survives atomic rename-saves) and
every save enqueues a normal upload job (progress/errors in the transfer
list); watchers + temp dirs are cleaned when the session disconnects
- Editor setting: Built-in | Custom with a NATIVE app picker (electrobun
openFileDialog, /Applications, .app filter) and reset-to-default
- Leftover temp files from a crash prompt for cleanup at boot
- F4, toolbar button (mynaFileText), and File > Edit File (Cmd+E) menu entry
- README: feature notes + Portability notes (open/start/xdg-open seam
documented in code and README per user request)
Verified headless against the box: sftp read/write roundtrip incl. UTF-8,
size cap, watch->save->auto-upload->remote-updated, session cleanup, orphan
listing and clearing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Synthetic cursor-navigable first row (hidden at /) — Enter/double-click goes to
the parent like the toolbar button. Excluded from selection, rename, delete,
chmod, and transfers; shown with an up-arrow icon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Freeze root cause: TransfersService consumed transferUpdate through an effect
that both read and wrote the jobMap signal — the first progress message spun
the effect into an infinite re-run loop, pegging the webview thread while the
copy completed fine bun-side. Push messages now flow through plain callback
registries on RpcService (also stops signal coalescing from dropping progress
snapshots). Verified live: a 60MB boot-time self-test copy streamed progress
into the running UI and the post-completion panel refreshes arrived.
- Tabs: workspaces (left+right PanelState pair each) in PanelsService; tab bar
replaces the header; sessions persist in background tabs; Cmd+T/Cmd+W/Ctrl+Tab;
closing a tab disconnects its sessions; last tab can't close
- Per-panel toolbar (top, icon-only): direction-explicit copy (-> / <-),
rename, new folder/file, chmod, delete; panel footers removed
- VSCode-style status bar: transfer summary (spinner/percent/queued/failures,
click to expand the job list) + active panel info; function bar removed
- transfer details list is collapsible, auto-expands on failure
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- prompt/confirm/chmod dialogs (signals-driven via DialogsService)
- FileActionsService: acts on selection or cursor row of the active panel
- function bar + F2/F7/F8/Delete keys; delete confirms and recurses
- verified provider ops + walkTree + removeRecursive on a scratch tree
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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