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mixeme c5f300b670 docs: close the GUI layout review, release 0.16.0

Stage 9 of the GUI layout plan: the roadmap item the review was raised
under is closed, so the plan and the findings document go with it — what
they established now lives in STANDARDS and the CHANGELOG.

STANDARDS gains the rule the review produced: a size that must follow the
theme is measured at build time, not written as a pixel constant, because
a hand-tuned number is only correct for the theme it was tuned against.
rowOverlap, captionColumnWidth, textColumnWidth, activityRowsHeight and
initialSplitOffset are the worked examples.

The CHANGELOG entry keeps to what the user can see: the window opens at
the size it asks for and drags smaller, the Jobs divider is draggable,
History columns hold their content on a scaled UI, and the Settings
button row and block spacing are as their layouts intended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-27 16:42:20 +03:00

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Roadmap

This file tracks planned GoSentry work that is larger than a single bug fix. Completed work is recorded in CHANGELOG.md, not here.

Open Items

Update check from GitHub releases

Releases are published as GitHub Releases (tags like v0.12.0, built by .github/workflows/release.yml), but the app never tells the user a newer version exists — they have to check the releases page by hand.

Add an update check that queries the GitHub Releases API (GET /repos/mixeme/gosentry/releases/latest) for the latest published tag, strips the leading v, and compares it against app.Version. When a newer version is available, surface it non-intrusively — an "Update available" line in Settings (next to the existing version/build info) with a hyperlink to the release page, not a modal on launch.

Design notes / open questions:

Opt-in and offline-safe. The check makes a network request, so it must be off by default (or clearly consented) and never block startup. Failures (offline, rate-limited, API change) should be silent — no error dialogs for a best-effort convenience feature.
Version comparison. Compare semantic versions, not strings, so 0.12.0 reads as newer than 0.9.0. A tiny semver comparator in app (or a small dependency) avoids lexical bugs.
Where the check lives. Keep it in the app layer behind the Service so the UI only renders the result, and cache the last check so opening Settings repeatedly does not spam the API (unauthenticated GitHub allows 60 req/h).
Repo coordinates. The primary remote is Gitea; the GitHub repo used for releases is mixeme/gosentry and must be wired in explicitly (constant or build-time value) rather than derived from origin.
No auto-download. Scope is detection and notification only; installing the update stays a manual click-through to the release page.

Import/export jobs as a cron table

Jobs can only be moved between machines by copying jobs.json by hand. Add "Import" / "Export" actions (Settings tab, file dialogs) that read and write a crontab-style text file, so a job list can be shared, version-controlled, or seeded from an existing Unix crontab.

Export writes one line per job — schedule fields, then command and arguments — and import parses the same format back into domain.Job values.

Design notes / open questions:

The job model is wider than a crontab line. Name, Folder, StartOnly, OverlapPolicy, TimeoutSeconds, and Enabled have no cron equivalent. Either accept a lossy export (schedule + command only) or carry the extra fields in a structured comment above each line (# gosentry: name=… folder=… timeout=…), which keeps the file readable by real cron while making the round-trip lossless. The comment form is preferred; decide the exact key set before implementing.
Disabled jobs. Enabled: false maps naturally to a commented-out line, but then a disabled job is indistinguishable from a user's own comment unless the # gosentry: marker is present. Pick one representation and document it.
@every is not crontab. GoSentry accepts @every 10s (see domain.Parse), which no cron implementation understands. Exporting it produces a file that is not a valid crontab; exporting it as an approximation would silently change the schedule. Keep the raw string and flag the file as GoSentry-flavoured, rather than converting.
Command vs arguments. Crontab has a single command string; GoSentry splits Command and Arguments. Import must split the line the same way the runner would (see runner/invocation*.go, which differs per OS), and export must join them back without changing quoting.
What to skip on import. Environment assignments (SHELL=, PATH=, MAILTO=), six-field (seconds) crontabs, and @reboot are outside what domain.Parse accepts. Skip them, and report which lines were skipped and why — a partial import that silently drops rows is worse than a failed one.
Merge semantics. Import must decide between replacing the job list and appending to it, and must assign fresh IDs rather than trusting the file. Appending with a confirmation dialog is the safer default; replacing needs an explicit "this deletes N jobs" confirmation.
Where it lives. Encoding/decoding is pure text handling and belongs in domain (or a small storage codec) with unit tests over round-trips; the Service exposes import/export operations; the UI only picks the file and shows the outcome.

Window size persistence (frozen)

Window size is currently not saved on quit or close. Saving was disabled because w.Canvas().Size() returns the maximized dimensions when the window is maximized, which would corrupt the stored size on the next launch.

Re-enabling requires a cross-platform way to detect the maximized state before saving. Fyne v2.x has no API for this; it needs per-OS native calls: IsZoomed (Windows), _NET_WM_STATE (X11/Linux), NSWindow.isZoomed (macOS). Unfreeze once that detection is in place.

Disadvantages of a platform-specific approach:

Three separate implementations. Windows, macOS, and Linux each need their own file guarded by a build tag. Each adds CGO bindings or raw syscall wrappers that must be kept in sync as OS APIs evolve.
Linux is not one target. X11 and Wayland have completely different window state models. _NET_WM_STATE is X11-only; under Wayland the compositor controls window decorations and there is no stable client-side API to query the maximized state. A single linux build tag cannot cover both correctly.
Native window handle is not exposed. Fyne does not surface the underlying HWND / NSWindow / XID through its public API. Obtaining it requires either enumerating OS-level windows by PID (fragile, finds wrong windows when dialogs are open) or reaching into Fyne/GLFW internals (breaks on Fyne upgrades).
Thread-safety constraints. Win32 and GLFW both require their calls to be made from the OS main thread. Tray-menu callbacks run on a separate goroutine, so any native call must be marshalled back to the main thread, adding synchronisation complexity.
Test coverage gap. Maximized-state detection cannot be exercised by Fyne's headless test driver; it requires a real display and manual or screen-capture automation per platform.

History tab — column filters (Trigger / Job / State)

Add dropdown filters above the History table so the user can narrow rows by trigger source, job name, or run state. Blocked on Fyne native support: the current widget.Table has no built-in filter API, and a filter bar built from widget.Select widgets above the table feels visually out-of-place. Revisit when Fyne adds first-class column filtering or a composable data-grid widget.

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