Uninstall only revokes permissions, but the recommended launch list is a
global hardcoded set that knows nothing about per-user revokes — so an
uninstalled recommended app's tile came back on every reload. Persist
uninstalled app names in kv (dashboard_removed_apps) and filter only the
recommended merge against them; installedApps is never filtered, so a
genuinely (re)installed app always shows.
The drawer resolved its own icon URL (a differently-sized variant under a
different URL than the dashboard tiles use), so its <img> fetched cold and
the icon popped in mid-intro. Reuse the bitmap an Apps-tab tile or Home-tab
recent already decoded — instant from the image cache; when nothing is
rendered yet (deep links), fade the icon in on load instead of popping, and
fall back to the generic app icon on a failed fetch.
Pasted (copied or cut) items now land selected, the same treatment
uploads get. copy_clipboard_items resolves with the created items'
paths instead of firing and forgetting, moveClipboardItems returns
each move response's authoritative final path (with Keep Both the
landed name differs from the source's), and both dashboard paste
entry points refresh with strong consistency and hand the new paths
to selectUploadedRows. Pastes into a folder that isn't rendered match
no rows and the highlight is a no-op.
Pasting or moving onto an existing name only offered Replace or
Cancel. Add a macOS-style middle ground: Keep Both retries the
operation with dedupe_name, landing the item as "name (1).ext" and
leaving the existing item untouched.
- puter-js move.js now forwards dedupeName to the wire (copy already
did; move dropped it).
- All four conflict dialogs offer the new button: copy_clipboard_items,
copy_items and move_items in helpers.js, and the dashboard's
moveClipboardItems. Multi-item selections show
Replace / Replace all / Keep Both / Skip.
- New keep_both translation key (other locales fall back to English).
Renaming (or moving) an entry left the OLD path's cache key serving
the pre-update entry for the full 60s TTL: updateEntry invalidated
only keys derived from the updated row, whose path is already the new
one. Pasting an item under the freed name then hit the stale cache in
the collision check and reported a conflict for a file that no longer
exists — and accepting the Replace it offered deleted the renamed file,
since the stale entry carries its uuid.
Read the pre-update entry when the patch changes the path and
invalidate its keys alongside the new ones. The move flow was shielded
by the outer.gui.item.moved cache-invalidation handler at the
controller layer; rename had no such band-aid, and fixing the store
covers every caller regardless of which events fire.
A copied fsentry kept its source's thumbnail pointer verbatim, so both
rows shared one S3 thumbnail object. fs.remove.node deletes the
pointed-to object, so the first removal among the sharers — e.g. the
remove performed by a replace-on-copy — broke every other sharer's
thumbnail. FSService already emits fs.copy.node for exactly this
reason (its doc comment describes the duplication), but the thumbnails
extension never subscribed to it.
Add the missing handler: S3-copy the thumbnail to a freshly minted key
and repoint the copied row, under the same only-keys-we-minted trust
rule as the read/remove paths. If the shared object is already gone
(pre-fix damage), null the pointer instead of leaving the row
advertising a thumbnail it doesn't have.
* fix: progress window covering paste conflict dialog; ghost row after Replace
Pasting a copied file onto a name collision buried the Replace/Cancel
dialog under a stuck 'Preparing...' progress window, and answering
Replace left a stale duplicate row in every client.
- helpers.js: copy_clipboard_items armed its delayed progress window
with a 0ms timer (its siblings use 2s), so the window opened
instantly over the dialog. Use 2s, and in all three of
copy_clipboard_items / copy_items / move_items pause the timer while
a conflict dialog (or the own-location / trash-deny alerts) is
waiting for input, re-arming it after. A window that opens
mid-operation now shows the current file instead of a stuck
'Preparing...', and the trash-deny bail no longer leaks a timer that
opened an orphan window after the operation ended.
- LegacyFSController: /copy and /move dropped the legacy 'overwritten'
response field and never emitted item.removed for the entry an
overwrite deleted, so clients kept a ghost row until re-listing.
Resolve the entry before the operation, return it, and emit
item.removed on success.
- helpers.js: copy_items read resp[0].overwritten but removed
resp.overwritten (always undefined), and the data-uid cleanup
selectors were unquoted — invalid CSS when a UUID starts with a
digit. Fixed all three sites.
* test: pin the v1 overwrite/collision wire contract for move and copy
The collision tests asserted only statusCode 409, which is how the
item_with_same_name_exists code regressed to 'conflict' unnoticed and
broke every replace/skip prompt in the GUI. Assert the legacy code and
entry_name explicitly, and add controller tests for the overwrite path:
the replaced entry must ride along as 'overwritten' in the /copy and
/move responses and be announced via outer.gui.item.removed so clients
drop its row.
Cut+paste onto a folder containing an item with the same name failed
with no feedback: the dashboard's moveClipboardItems swallowed the
error into console.error and cleared the clipboard, and the rewritten
backend broke the v1 wire contract the GUI's conflict prompts key on.
- FSService: move() and copy() collisions again return
item_with_same_name_exists + entry_name (the contract the write path
already preserves) instead of a generic 'conflict' code. This also
restores the desktop's existing Replace/Skip dialogs, which were
silently broken against the new backend.
- Dashboard: moveClipboardItems now mirrors the desktop's move_items
conflict flow (Replace / Replace all / Skip / Cancel, retry with
overwrite) and surfaces other move errors in an alert.
- keyboard.js: the desktop's global Ctrl+V handler threw an uncaught
TypeError on every paste in dashboard mode (its file container has
no data-path); guard it — which also prevents a double-paste if
dashboard containers ever gain one.
Re-rendering the directory already on screen (after an upload, sort
change, undo, etc.) used to clear the list and show a spinner before
the readdir round-trip, blanking the pane for the whole fetch. Keep
the current rows visible until the fresh listing arrives, then swap
the DOM in one pass and restore the scroll position. Navigation to a
different directory still clears immediately.
Reorders and updates the recommended apps list: removes 'butler', 'code', and 'traffic-tap-puzzle'; adds 'contacts', 'diagram', and 'basketball-tap' (relocated from end); adjusts overall ordering of several apps.
Update `.dashboard-settings-card .button` to use dashboard theme tokens for text, background, and borders, and add clearer hover/focus/active states with subtle elevation and transitions. Also override disabled styles in this context so dark mode no longer shows hard-coded light greys from the base `.button:disabled` rule.
Long-press-to-drag can't be made reliable on touch: touch-action is
consulted at gesture start, so the pager's pan-x claims the finger
before a drag can begin (worst on iOS). Replace it with an explicit
edit mode - a cog button (touch-primary devices only) enters it, tiles
jiggle and drag on first movement, iOS-style x badges uninstall, and
Done exits. Drops still persist immediately, same as desktop.
Also raise the drag ghost above the window z-index bands; it was
rendering invisibly behind the fullpage dashboard window.
Express 5's app.listen wraps the listen callback in once() and also
invokes it on 'error', with the error as the first argument — at which
point server.address() is null, so the startup log threw a TypeError
and killed the process before the EADDRINUSE handler could try the
next port. Bail out of the callback when it receives an error and let
the 'error' listener own the retry.
Verified: with 4000 occupied the server now logs the retry and comes
up on 4001; with the port free it binds 4000 as before.
- npm start --server=puter.com (or -- --server=...) skips the local backend
and serves the bundled GUI locally, pointed at the remote server's API.
Bare domains resolve to https://api.<domain>; full origins are used
verbatim. gui_origin points at the remote origin so /whoarewe, login,
anti-csrf, socket.io, and builtin apps hit the real backend (CORS-open).
- --extensions=<dir>[;<dir>...] bundles out-of-tree GUI extension
directories (sugar for PUTER_GUI_EXTENSION_PATHS). Their imports resolve
as if the files lived in src/gui/src/extensions, with the extension's own
files taking precedence, and bare imports fall back to the repo-root
node_modules.
- Fix the bit-rotted dev-server: Express 5 wildcard routes, pass gui()
params (previously called with none), inject the service_script shim,
load bundle.min.js + bundle.min.css in prod mode, serve /sdk, and
properly await the webpack build (it previously resolved immediately).
For extensions with no intentional built-in mapping (doc, docx, and
every other unmapped type), suggestionsForExtension fell back to
['editor'], and #resolveForExtension always placed built-ins ahead of
apps from app_filetype_association. Since suggested[0] drives the GUI's
double-click open path and /open_item, a .docx defaulted to opening as
plain text in editor even when a word processor explicitly registered
the extension.
Tag the unknown-extension result as a fallback and order third-party
filetype-association apps ahead of it. Intentional mappings (code, txt,
md, images, pdf, media) keep built-ins in the head slot as before, and
the editor guess still appears as a last-resort option.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Apps: normalize filetype associations to bare lowercase extensions
Suggested-apps lookups match app_filetype_association rows against the
bare lowercase extension ('docx'), but writes stored whatever the
developer typed. Rows like '.docx' never matched, so those apps
silently dropped out of Open With suggestions.
AppStore now canonicalizes on write (trim, lowercase, strip leading
dots, dedupe, drop empties) and tolerates the dotted legacy form on
read: getAppsByFiletype normalizes the requested extension, matches
both 'docx' and '.docx', and dedupes apps associated under both forms.
Cache invalidation keys are normalized the same way. Existing dotted
rows work without a data migration.
* Update apps tests for extension canonicalization
Adjust apps API tests to match current normalization behavior for `filetypeAssociations`: extension values are stored as lowercase bare extensions (e.g. `.txt` -> `txt`), while MIME types remain unchanged. Added inline comments in both test suites to document this expected remap.
An app launched by another app minimizes its launcher (iOS-style
takeover). Closing the child then popped onto the launcher's history
entry, and the popstate handler restored it — so quitting an app threw
the user into a different full-screen app they had not asked for, zoom
animation and all. Closing an app should go home.
Mark the launcher when it is minimized FOR a child
(data-minimized_for_child). If it still carries that mark when the child
closes, the close's single history hop lands on the dashboard instead:
the entry is rewritten to the dashboard's route and the launcher is left
minimized, still running behind its tile's running dot. No extra history
traversal — the joint session history an app's iframe shares is exactly
what pop_dashboard_app_url's watchdog exists to survive, so the hop
count is unchanged.
Back is untouched and still returns to the launcher — that is the
navigation gesture, whereas close dismisses. Any restore (Back, tile
click, Forward) clears the mark, so quitting a child after the user has
brought the launcher back leaves the launcher alone.
In dashboard mode apps are full-tab experiences, but an app launched by
another app (puter.ui.launchApp) opened as a floating titlebar window
over its full-tab parent: the parent stayed on screen around its edges,
couldn't be raised (focusWindow never raises stay_on_top windows), and a
child with no Apps-tab tile had no switcher to come back to once
minimized.
Give child launches the same treatment as tile launches — maximized, so
they get the headless chrome and control drawer — and minimize the
parent behind them, iOS-style. State only: the parent's /app/<name>
history entry already sits beneath the child's, so Back from the child
(and the child's close, which consumes its own entry) lands on the
parent's entry and the existing popstate handler restores it. The parent
keeps running while hidden, so parent/child IPC is unaffected.
Explorer keeps its windowed form, background apps don't minimize their
parent, and an explicit `maximized` option still wins. Desktop mode is
untouched: both changes are gated on is_dashboard_mode, so an app
launching an app there still gets a floating child over a visible
parent.
focusWindow re-raised a focused window's parent (and children) with the
bare z counter. For a file dialog owned by a fullpage/dashboard app that
DEMOTED the app out of the 99999999+ stay-on-top band it was created in,
burying app and dialog under every other open app window — opening a
file picker from an app stacked over another (e.g. an app launched from
Dev Center) made both vanish beneath the window below. The dialog itself
had the same flaw: raised into the plain counter band, under every app.
Raise each window within its own stacking band instead: stay-on-top
windows (and windows hanging off one through parent_uuid, walked up the
chain) get 99999999 + counter; everything else keeps the bare counter —
so desktop stacking arithmetic is unchanged. Same demotion family as the
showWindow restore fix in #3427.
Every path rendered as "> Puter > user > ...", but the root crumb is
noise on anything beneath it. Render it only at the root itself, where
it's all there is to show (the Up button can still reach /, and an
empty breadcrumb bar there would strand the user). Each crumb keeps
its leading caret, including the first.
Neal Shah