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jaap-jan 4300d917a8 Stop making people wait for a handshake, and give the host list a pointer
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 3s
ci / android head (push) Failing after 2s
Connecting held the vault's busy gate, which meant a window that did nothing visible for
as long as a machine took to answer — and against one that is merely asleep, that is the
whole timeout. The gate is gone from that one command. A tab now appears in the strip in
the same turn as the click, carrying "connecting…" rather than a pane, and the terminal's
rectangle draws a card naming the host and the address being dialled. Every other screen
stays usable, and two connections can be in flight at once.

That splits the vault's one connection event into three, carrying an attempt id, because
"which tab is this about" can no longer be answered by "the most recent one". The id also
buys the two kinds of not-connecting their different endings: a refusal stays in the strip
as a tab holding its reason, since by then the user is quite likely three screens away and
a status line they are not looking at is not where a failure should end; a host key
question takes the tab away and puts the window back on HOSTS, because the prompt is drawn
there and a tab claiming failure would be competing with the thing about to resume it.

ConnectAsync takes no CancellationToken any more, and that is load-bearing rather than
tidying. A [RelayCommand] over a method that takes one generates a command that cancels
the previous execution's token on every invocation — so asking for a second machine
silently abandoned the first, measured as the first tab disappearing with "Cancelled." the
instant the second was asked for. Giving up on a connection is closing its tab, and a
session that lands after that is adopted rather than dropped: a shell running with nothing
naming it cannot be closed at all.

A tab is marked active on IsShowing rather than IsSelected. The selection survives
navigating away — that is what makes the strip a way back to a terminal instead of a way
to lose one — so a tab lit while preferences filled the window was a second "you are here"
mark pointing at something nobody could see. The nav rail's own entries have always made
this distinction.

The host list grows the two gestures it looked like it already had. A right click selects
the row under the pointer before opening a menu of Connect, Edit and Delete — the menu is
on the list rather than in the item template, so its entries are the vault's own commands
and not a row's, and it is cancelled outright over a group heading. Dragging a host onto a
heading files it there, onto a host files it beside that one, and onto UNGROUPED takes it
out of a group; the write is one field of one host through the same repository a save
uses, refused while the editor is open because a drop is a gesture on the list and not on
a half-typed form.

Clicking a result in the palette connects, which is what a list of hosts under a search
box looks like it does. It went through the shell's own command, so the pointer and Enter
take one path.

And the files screen's two pickers followed the vault's lists once, at unlock: a host or a
bucket created afterwards could not be picked until the keychain had been locked and
opened again, with nothing on screen explaining why the machine plainly in the host list
was missing. They follow the collections now, re-finding the selection by id across the
rebuild a sync pass causes every minute.

165 shell tests and 69 layout tests green, including the connecting tab, both failure
endings, two connections at once, a connection in flight across a lock, and the right
click acting on the row under the pointer rather than on the selection. The drag itself is
in docs/manual-checks.md with the rest of phase 7 — headless Avalonia has no platform
drag, and a test that claimed to have dropped something would pass while confirming
nothing.
2026-07-31 22:59:33 +02:00
jaap-jan fe9d7fc289 Give DodoSSH a phone, and a shared shell for both heads to drive
The Android head from docs/android-port.md, taken as far as its step 6.

Step 3, the spike, is answered and its throwaway screen is gone: libsodium.so and
libe_sqlite3.so are both in the arm64 APK, so NSec resolves its native half on Android
despite shipping no Android build, and the local cache opens. Two findings the audit
could not have had: Avalonia.Controls.WebView only ships net10.0-android36.0, which
settles the open "which Android versions" question at targetSdk 36; and Android has
blocked cleartext HTTP since API 28, so the terminal renderer needs a network security
config scoped to 127.0.0.1 or the WebView loads nothing.

DodoSSH.Client.Shell is new and is why the phone can exist: the view models, the terminal
renderer files and the palette moved there so both heads drive one state machine and draw
from one set of tokens. The desktop head is otherwise untouched and its 144 tests still
pass.

The platform pieces behind interfaces that already existed: the profile directory from
filesDir, a device key wrapped by a StrongBox-backed key that a fingerprint releases, and
a foreground service so a shell outliving a vault lock stays true on a platform that
stops backgrounded processes.

Sign-in is deliberately absent rather than approximated. It needs an app link, because
reusing the desktop loopback listener is the attack RFC 8252 section 8.3 names.
2026-07-31 20:58:48 +02:00
jaap-jan 312d766c30 Let the quick-connect palette answer for itself
Clicking outside the palette did nothing, because nothing was listening: the
wash took no pointer input at all, so the only ways out were a key and the
button that opened it. It now closes on a press whose source is the wash
itself, which is what separates outside from inside — a press on the card
bubbles through the same handler on its way to the window, and closing on
those would make the palette impossible to click into.

The caret never reached the query box either. The window focused it from the
view model's PropertyChanged, and that handler runs before the binding which
reveals the control — measured, with the same wiring, in a replica window. So
it focused a control that was still collapsed, which Avalonia treats as a
no-op and does not replay when the control is revealed, and the keyboard
stayed wherever the click that opened the palette had left it. Becoming
visible is now what triggers it, posted rather than called: a control that has
never been laid out has no visual children, and at the instant IsVisible turns
true the box still reports IsAttachedToVisualTree() == false.

Escape, Enter and the arrows move to the palette as a tunnelled handler.
Answering them only on the window was fragile in the way that matters here:
anything on the route that took a key first would silence them, and with the
focus never landing in the palette the key was being pressed at whatever the
opening click had focused — a focused Button eats Enter. The window keeps
Ctrl+K, which has to work when the palette is not showing, and forwards the
rest as the net for a press that arrives from outside the palette.

Which is also why this moved out of MainWindow rather than being fixed there.
Showing MainWindow initialises WebView2 on a thread it refuses, so nothing on
that window can be tested — the palette shipped with no test of any kind. As a
UserControl it hosts in a bare window and takes real key and pointer input,
and there are now six: press on the wash closes, press on the card does not,
Escape closes, the arrows move the selection without taking the caret out of
the box, Enter takes the highlighted host, and the palette takes the keyboard
when it appears.
2026-07-31 10:43:30 +02:00
jaap-jan 9a76eced14 Give hosts and terminals their own screen, and the rest of the vault another
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (pull_request) Canceled after 0s
ci / build (windows) (pull_request) Canceled after 0s
Rebuilds the client's shell from an imported design: a titlebar and nav rail
it draws itself, real multi-session tabs over the one WebView, a Ctrl+K host
search, and a vault screen that merges keys, passwords and pinned host keys
into one table. Hosts left the vault column for their own screen beside the
terminal, which is what the design asks for and turned out to be the better
split anyway.

Two screens the design shows have nothing behind them yet — file transfer
and teams — and say so plainly rather than rendering invented data; every
other gap between the design and this build is recorded in
docs/design-import-gaps.md.
2026-07-31 08:39:37 +02:00