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jaap-jan be012585b3 Let a group be right-clicked, as a host already can
The host cards have had a menu since the grid replaced the sidebar; the group
cards above them had a double-click and two buttons beside the heading, and
nothing that named the card under the pointer. Open, Edit and Delete are on them
now, drawn and aimed the same way.

On the list rather than in the item template, for the reason the host grid's is:
the three commands are the vault's, and a ContextMenu inside a DataTemplate has
the row for its data context, so every binding in it would silently resolve to
nothing. The code-behind selects whatever was right-clicked before the menu
opens, and that is what makes one menu act on the card under the pointer rather
than on whichever was selected before.

**Cancelled over the space around the cards, and here that guard is doing more
than the host grid's.** GroupTarget falls back to the group whose contents are on
screen when no card is selected — the right answer for a pair of buttons beside
the heading, which would otherwise have no subject the moment a group with
nothing inside it is opened, and the wrong one for a menu that opened on a card.
Without the guard, right-clicking the gap beside the cards would offer to delete
the group the trail ends with: a question about something the user is not
pointing at, in the one menu where the answer is a deletion.

Only Open takes a parameter, and it has to. OpenGroupCommand's null is a real
argument rather than a missing one — it is the trail's first crumb, ALL HOSTS —
so an entry with no parameter would not open the card, it would leave the group
the user right-clicked and go back to the top level.

Two tests beside the two the host menu already had. What they hold that a build
cannot is the CommandParameter binding: a path that resolves to nothing compiles
and draws, and the entry would then quietly do the opposite of what it says. The
popup itself is still the platform's, so manual-checks 7.9 gained the group half
of the same check.
2026-08-04 16:27:01 +02:00
jaap-jan 2a56ae3efb Put a host inside the group it is filed under, rather than beside it
The group cards were headings with a navigation gesture bolted on. Opening one
narrowed the grid to its hosts, but the level above already held every host in
the keychain — so a card could only ever subtract, filing something changed
nothing but a chip, and a keychain with forty machines was forty cards however
carefully anybody had arranged them. The trail said ALL HOSTS and meant it.

So the grid holds one level of the tree, the way a directory pane holds one
directory. A host filed under a group is inside that group and is not also on
the screen the group's card sits on; the outermost level is what nothing has
been filed into. A group is a place now, and the cards, the trail and the drop
target were already the vocabulary for saying so.

The find box is the exception and had to be one. Typed into, it searches the
open group and everything under it, which from the outermost level is every
machine in the keychain. A box scoped to the level it was typed on would answer
"no host matches that" about a host this keychain has got, and finding a machine
without first remembering where it was filed is most of what the box is for.
The accent chip on a card is what tells a searched-up host from one that lives
at this level.

Two things came free with the change and are handled rather than left.

The phone would have broken. Its list binds SidebarRows, which was a projection
over VisibleHosts, and it has no group cards and nowhere to open one into — so
level-scoping would have left it drawing only the hosts nobody had filed.
RebuildSidebarRows takes its own pass over the hosts now, narrowed by the vault
switches and the box and by nothing else, which is the whole tree flattened
under headings: exactly what it drew before.

And anything created inside a group disappeared the moment it was saved. The
host editor opens on the group the screen is about rather than only on a
selected card, and + NEW GROUP defaults its parent to the group that is open.
Deliberately not the selected card there: a highlighted card is what EDIT and
DELETE are aimed at, and reading it as "and the next group goes inside it" would
nest one because somebody had clicked something. The host editor takes both
because it always took the selection, and its picker shows the answer before
anything is written.

Dropping a host on a group card now takes the card off the grid, and the
selection goes with it — Connect, Edit and Delete all read that property and
none of them should be aimed at a card that has left the screen. The status line
is what says where it went, which is why the manual check now asks for it to be
read. Coming back out through the editor lands the host on this level again, and
there the selection survives.

An empty grid has two more things it can say: that every host is filed away,
which the level-at-a-time grid made reachable and which is not the same sentence
as "there are none", and that nothing under this group matches what was typed —
with ALL HOSTS named as the way to widen it.

Not changed, and next door: a group card counts the hosts filed directly under
it, so a group holding only subgroups reads "0 hosts". That was already true and
is more visible now that its subgroups' hosts are not spilled onto the level
above.

1522 tests pass. Four are new — the level rule and the phone's flat list
asserted together, the box reaching two levels down, the all-filed sentence, and
where a host and a group made inside a group end up. MovingAHostToAGroup was
asserting the old outcome and is rewritten rather than adjusted: it held that
the host stayed selected, and what it holds now is that the host leaves the
level it came from.
2026-08-04 09:51:55 +02:00
jaap-jan 1f2607cc9a Merge branch 'claude/group-double-click-breadcrumb-7bf3f8'
ci / build and test (push) Successful in 1m18s
ci / android head (push) Failing after 5s
ci / api image (push) Successful in 22s
2026-08-03 16:32:27 +02:00
jaap-jan 01d54ba4fa Put the trail above the GROUPS label rather than under it
It was drawn as the transfers screen's is, under the heading of the list it
belongs to. That is right there and wrong here: over there a path describes the
one pane beneath it, and this one describes two. Opening a group narrows the
host grid as well as the row of cards, so a trail sitting under GROUPS reads as
one more fact about the groups while it is also the reason the grid at the
bottom of the screen is showing eleven machines instead of forty.

So it is the first thing in the section, and both headings below — GROUPS and
HOSTS — belong to it. Markup only: the trail moved, the note on it says why it
is not placed like its sibling, and the group buttons' note now points up rather
than down. 85 layout tests pass, including the one that presses a rendered crumb
and would have caught the $parent binding failing to resolve from its new place.
2026-08-03 16:32:09 +02:00
jaap-jan fd6c4f5155 Merge branch 'claude/host-detail-pane-design-e98621' 2026-08-03 16:31:43 +02:00
jaap-jan e3dfe5c371 Make the host pane something you ask for, and draw it as cards
THE DRAWER USED TO ARRIVE WITH THE SELECTION. IsDrawerOpen read "a host is
selected", so touching any card took 304 pixels off the grid — including every
card arrowed past on the way to the one somebody wanted. Choosing among forty
machines was charged the price of the pane for one of them. A pencil now appears
on the card under the pointer and on the selected card, and that is what opens
it; IsHostPaneOpen is the flag, and the grid's context menu gained Details… so
the pane is reachable without a pointer, which a hover-only control is not.

Once open it follows the selection rather than pinning the host it was opened
on: a pane about one host beside a grid marking a different one is two answers
to the same question. Losing the selection closes it and clears the flag, or a
filter matching nothing would leave the pane armed to spring open again on the
next card merely selected — which is the behaviour the pencil exists to remove.

The pencil is drawn over the card rather than in a column of its own. A column
would have cost the name 30 pixels of a 232-pixel tile, permanently, for a
control that is only there while the pointer is; the dot and the pencil stack in
the two corners of that edge instead. IsVisible and not opacity, because a
button at zero opacity still takes the click and the card underneath does not.

A HEADER, A BODY THAT SCROLLS, AND A FOOTER, which is the one structural change
in the pane. The header names what the drawer is about and carries the two
things true of every panel; the footer carries the one thing each panel is for —
CONNECT, or SAVE, or the question about deleting. Only the middle scrolls, so
the button somebody came here to press can no longer be below the fold, which
CONNECT could be on a host with fifteen tags. That also widens what the layout
harness certifies: it skips anything inside a ScrollViewer, and the control each
panel exists to offer is now outside one.

THE SAME THREE CARDS TWICE. Address, General, Connection — first as rows stating
what the host is, then as boxes for changing it. The detail pane's rows are
buttons that open the editor: the design draws every fact as a filled box, and
rather than draw an input that refuses the pointer, pressing one leads to the
same card with a real box in it. Nothing here saves as you type, and that is not
timidity — saving validates the key-or-credential exclusion and writes one
encrypted payload, so a box committing per keystroke would be a save per
character and a half-typed hostname on the wire.

Every value the pane prints is the resolved one, and says "inherited" beside it
where a group supplied it. The number is the same either way and the edit is
not: clearing a group's default moves every host that never overrode it.

A HOST CARD IS TWO LINES AND NO CHIPS. The subtitle is now "ssh, root, pci,
eu-west-1" — the transport, the resolved account, then every tag — replacing
both the user@host:port line and the wrapped row of tag chips under it. The
address went to the card's tooltip rather than nowhere: a card is read while
scanning forty machines, where the name and the kind of machine are what is
being looked for, and an address is what you read once you have found it.

"ssh" is a constant today and is printed anyway, which is the one thing here
that argues with this codebase's own rule about constants dressed as readings.
It is the first item of a list whose other items vary, and a list beginning with
the account on one card and a tag on the next has no shape to scan. The remark
on HostRowViewModel.Summary says so rather than leaving it to be discovered.

WHAT THE DESIGN DRAWS AND THIS PANE HAS NOT GOT: Share this host, Add Telnet,
"SSH ID, Certificate, FIDO2", the backspace-key mapping row, the vault picker's
chevron and Show more. Sharing is per vault and not per item, every session here
is an SSH channel, there are no identity or certificate item types, nothing
carries a terminal setting to the renderer, and an item cannot be moved between
vaults at all. Six controls with nothing behind them, listed in
docs/design-import-gaps.md with what ships instead, and none drawn disabled.

The credentials row is marked with ◆ rather than the ⚿ the nav rail uses for the
keychain. U+26BF is outside both faces this application substitutes for the
design's fonts, so it lands on whatever the platform's fallback has; every other
glyph in the pane is from Geometric Shapes, which both carry.
2026-08-03 16:26:43 +02:00
jaap-jan 0c0ac94312 Open a group by double-clicking it, and say where you are
ONE PRESS WAS DOING TWO JOBS. A group card was the only place a group could be
selected — it is what EDIT and DELETE aim at — and it was also the control that
narrowed the grid to that group. So there was no way to name a group in order to
rename it without every host outside it leaving the screen at the same moment,
and no way back except a SHOW ALL button that appeared beside the heading.

Two gestures instead. A click selects and does nothing else; a double-click
opens, which is what the host cards below already do to get a shell and what the
transfers screen's directories already do to go inside one. The grid now has one
vocabulary rather than one per list. The gesture is wired in the code-behind
beside the host one, and guarded the same way: a double-click on the space
around the cards must not open whichever group happened to be selected.

THE CARDS ARE ONE LEVEL NOW, not every group in the keychain. Groups nest, and
drawing all of them flat was the only honest thing to do while a card was a
filter — a filter nobody can see is a filter nobody can turn off. Once opening
one became navigation the cards became its contents, and VisibleGroups is that
level beside Groups the way VisibleHosts sits beside Hosts. Groups itself is
untouched: it is what every lookup reads and what the phone's headings are built
from, and the phone binds none of the new members.

Which is what the trail is for. A level with no name and no way out is a grid
that has quietly hidden things, so a breadcrumb sits above the cards — drawn
exactly as the transfers screen draws a directory path, same flat crumbs and
same separator, because it is the same control answering the same question and a
window with two breadcrumbs that look different has two ideas of what a path is.
The first crumb is always there and always goes back to every host, which is
what SHOW ALL was; that button went with it, because a control that only says
"stop" beside a trail that says where you are is a second control for one job,
and this one also gets you back one level rather than all the way.

EDIT AND DELETE AIM AT GroupTarget: the selected card, or the open group when no
card is selected. Without the fallback a group with nothing inside it could be
opened and then never edited, because opening a group is exactly what takes its
own card off the screen. It is also what a file manager does — act on the
selection, and on the current folder when there is none — and the pair is now
hidden with nothing to act on rather than shown doing nothing.

A DANGLING PARENT AND A CYCLE BOTH HAD TO END UP SOMEWHERE REACHABLE. Neither is
prevented: a parent id may point at a group deleted on another machine, and two
clients can each re-parent A under B and B under A while offline, which no merge
can see because the pointer is inside the payload. EffectiveParents promotes
both to the outermost level, which is the same degradation the resolver's
visited set produces for inheritance. The repair for either is the group's own
editor and the editor is opened from its card, so a group drawn nowhere would be
a broken state with the fix locked inside it.

Three tests in HostGridTests: the split rule through the properties the cards
bind, the pointer gesture itself in two windows so that "one press still only
selects" is asserted separately from the pair, and a nested group opened,
emptied of cards and walked back out of one level. The last presses the trail as
it is actually rendered rather than calling the command, because a crumb reaches
the vault through a $parent binding — a string that compiles whether or not it
resolves, and would otherwise leave a row of buttons that do nothing. 85 layout
tests and 234 shell-flow tests pass.

Manual-checks 3.2, 7.6 and 7.7 follow the new gestures, and 3.2a and 3.4a are
new: nesting, and the two states above, both of which need two machines and
neither of which headless Avalonia can reach.
2026-08-03 16:16:18 +02:00
jaap-jan f9d08b738c Take the group headings out of the host grid, and drop onto a group card
A first group turned the wrap of host cards into an accordion: SidebarRows
interleaves a full-width fold-away heading — chevron, name, count — between the
cards, and in a grid that reads as a dropdown somebody left open. The desktop
grid binds VisibleHosts now. The headings and the fold stay for the phone, whose
list has no room for the row of group cards the desktop draws above the grid.

What a heading said, the card says: HostRowViewModel.GroupLabel, resolved once
per reload like the tag names, drawn as an accent chip and absent from a host in
no group — or in one that has been deleted, which is the same thing to look at.

What a heading also was is the drop target, and that moves to the group cards.
Two things go with it. A host dropped onto another host card used to be filed
beside it, which was legible while a heading named the band of cards it landed
in and is guesswork now; it is refused. And UNGROUPED was how a host was dragged
back out of a group; the way out is the picker in its own editor, which is the
one place "no group" can be said in words.

A drag held at either edge of the grid scrolls it. Without that the gesture only
works for whoever can see both ends of it: the group cards are the first thing in
the scroller, the host may be the fortieth card down, and a drag cannot use the
wheel. A step per drag event rather than a timer, so it follows the pointer and
stops when it stops.

The two heading-shaped tests are replaced. TheHostsGridHoldsCardsAndNoGroupHeadings
asserts the grid's contents rather than only measuring them, because a heading
that came back would lay out perfectly cleanly. TheGroupCardsAreWhatAcceptsADroppedHost
raises a real DragOver over both kinds of card and checks the effects and the
mark — the nearest a headless test gets to a gesture no headless test can
synthesise. manual-checks 3.1-3.2 and 7.6-7.9 follow.
2026-08-03 15:49:58 +02:00
jaap-jan 1b7df47537 Merge main into the desktop redesign branch
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Four conflicts. Three were two people adding to the same spot, and one was a
real collision: main gave the connect bar a REMEMBER tick in the same pass that
this branch took the connect bar off the hosts screen.

REMEMBER is now in the drawer, beside the password box it qualifies. Nothing
about the feature changed — RemembersConnectPassword, its refusal to fire until
the remote has accepted the password, and the six tests over it are main's
untouched — only where it is drawn. The move improves it slightly and it is
worth saying why rather than claiming a merge was neutral: the bar had one row
and had to fit the box, the tick, the authentication note and CONNECT along it,
which is why the tick was a bare "REMEMBER" in tracked capitals. A column has
room to put it under the box as a sentence, where it reads as a property of the
password rather than as a fourth control in a row.

MainWindowViewModel: both sides added members after ShowTerminal — the desktop's
three fixed tabs here, the phone's connect menu on main. They do not interact,
so both are kept, each under its own heading.

TeamsScreen: main added the team's own RENAME, HAND OVER and ARCHIVE, a member's
LastActive, the role a new member arrives as, and the KEY HOLDERS list. This
branch had only bumped the file's font sizes a point. Resolved by taking main's
file whole and re-running the bump over it, so the new controls join the scale
rather than sitting a point below everything around them.

README: both sides described a different head's third pass in the same
paragraph. Both kept.

Two things checked rather than assumed, because this branch moved the furniture
the merged commits sit on. The chrome heights main's terminal work touched are
the phone's, not the desktop's — 44, 42 and 24 are unchanged, so the layout
harness's budget still describes the window. And main's keychain DELETE did not
reach VaultScreen.axaml, whose header this branch rearranged, so the five
buttons that overflowed at the larger type are still five.

2415 tests pass, up from 2369 by the 46 main brought.
2026-08-03 15:17:55 +02:00
jaap-jan 208443b932 Move SFTP and S3 into the tab strip, and the host list into a card grid
Four asks in one pass over the desktop head, and two of them are furniture
moving rather than anything new.

THE STRIP IS THE WINDOW'S NOW, not the terminal's. Vaults, SFTP and S3 sit at
its head and cannot be closed, and open terminals follow them. SFTP and S3 left
the nav rail to get there, which is the one semantic change: they are the two
destinations you stay in while something runs, and a rail entry is for
somewhere you go and come back from. So the rail belongs to the Vaults tab and
collapses with it, which also means SFTP, S3 and a terminal each get the full
1016 rather than the 826 a page gets.

The tab is expressed as "a page, and not one of the two the strip took" rather
than as a fourth ShellSurface. Both are still ShellScreen members and have to
be — that is what they are on the phone, where they are two rows in a hub — so
a surface each would have been a second way to say a thing Screen already says.
IsTransfersShowing and IsBucketsShowing light the other two tabs unchanged.
What is new is one field: the page Vaults comes back to, because it is the one
tab with sub-navigation and therefore the one that can return to the wrong
place. That is not the hidden field ShellSurface argues against — that one
would be a second copy of "which page"; this is a tab remembering its own.

THE HOSTS SCREEN IS A GRID, and the 268-pixel sidebar is gone. That column was
choosing among forty machines and editing one of them at two-thirds width, and
it was narrow so the editor beneath it could be a column at all. Cards took the
first job at full width; a 304-pixel drawer took the second and collapses when
nothing is selected. Pressing a group card narrows the grid; SHOW ALL is the
way back. The group editor moved into the drawer as well, which finally makes
IsEditingGroup mean the same thing on both heads — it was the phone's alone,
because the desktop's editor was a bar that was always on screen.

AreHostsExpanded and ToggleHosts went with the control that used them. They
folded the whole list away under one heading, an affordance that existed
because the column was narrow. Folding a single group is a different thing and
is still here.

THE TYPE SCALE IS A POINT LARGER and the text ramp is white. The base size was
never stated anywhere — a bare TextBlock took TextElement's default of 12 — so
raising the scale meant naming it, on Window and on UserControl. The second
selector is not redundancy: the layout harness hosts a UserControl in a window
it builds itself, and without it the suite would measure every screen a point
smaller than it ships, silently. A selector on TextBlock would have been the
obvious way and is wrong, because a style setter beats an inherited value and
would collapse every deliberate step back to one number.

#E3E7F4 is a blue-tinted white on blue-black surfaces, which costs contrast
twice — once for being darker than white and once for sharing a hue with what
it is drawn on. Pure white is 18.3:1 against the canvas where that was 15.5:1.
Every step below moved with the top, so the intervals the design chose are
kept and TextDim clears 9:1 against 6.4:1. The palette is shared, so the phone
has both changes too.

TWO DEFECTS THE HARNESS STRUCTURALLY CANNOT SEE, found by rendering the screen
rather than by measuring it, and both now covered.

The tile was 232 and was first written as 248, from arithmetic that left out
the scrolling stack's own margins. Every layout test passed — the harness asks
whether a control is inside the window, never how many fit on a line — so the
grid quietly became one column wide at exactly the minimum this application
guarantees, which is the shape cards exist to avoid.
TheHostsGridKeepsTwoColumnsAtTheMinimumWithTheDrawerOpen counts columns
instead, and fails at 248.

And a card's text ran past its own border, because a horizontal StackPanel
measures children with infinite width: a TextBlock inside one never learns it
is short of room, so TextTrimming never fires. Both card rows are grids with a
star column that gives way and an Auto column that does not — a hostname with
its tail cut is still the machine you were looking for, where a badge or the
word naming an auth method is not.

The keychain header changed shape for the same class of reason. It was
Auto,Auto,*,Auto with the buttons last, so the slack column was the only thing
absorbing a change of width and five buttons fell off the right edge the moment
the type grew. That is how GENERATE lost the word KEY once already. The summary
sits in the star column and trims now, so the buttons always get their width.

HostSidebarTests became HostGridTests and moved to the grid with the gestures
it drives. docs/design-import-gaps.md gains a v3 section naming the five
toolbar controls in the design with nothing behind them — a view-mode switch, a
tag filter, a calendar, a share control and Serial — and manual-checks.md and
the README follow the controls that moved.
2026-08-03 15:08:48 +02:00
jaap-jan b86ff6158b Keep the password that just worked, so the host stops asking for it
The vault has held credentials and host bindings since they landed, and the
only route from a typed password into one ran through two screens: add a
password under Keychain, open the host, bind it. The password box's own tooltip
instructed people to do exactly that by hand — which means typing the secret a
second time, into a screen that has no idea which host it is for, while the
screen that does have the password is the one being left behind. A tick beside
the box does it in one step.

What it produces is an ordinary CredentialSecret, named after the host, bound
through CredentialId with AsksForPassword cleared beside it. That is the whole
reason nothing else here had to change: it syncs, it merges, it appears in the
keychain, it can be renamed and deleted, and it can be bound to the other
nineteen machines that share the account. A password field on HostSecret would
have been a payload schema bump, a fourth place a secret lives, and a copy per
host to rotate and forget.

It waits for a handshake the remote accepted, and that is not caution for its
own sake. Binding on the keystroke would store whatever was in the box —
including the typo about to be refused — and the host would then stop asking,
leaving a machine nobody can connect to until they work out that the keychain
is where the wrong password now lives. For the same reason the password is read
from the credential as dialled rather than from the box, which stays typeable
throughout a handshake.

Off by default, because the typed box exists precisely for the passwords that
should not be in a synchronised vault — a one-off on a machine somebody will
never open again. The credential is written into the host's own vault rather
than the active one: in the personal vault, bound to a team's host, it would be
a binding every other member can see and none of them can resolve.

One thing is given up knowingly. The confirmation naming where the password
went is replaced a moment later by the auto-sync's own count, exactly as
SaveHostAsync's "Saved 'x'" is; this follows that rather than becoming the one
write that suppresses a sync line. The feedback that lasts is the row answering
"credential" and the box disappearing — which is also the only way to store a
password on the phone at all, since that head lists credentials but has never
had an editor to create one in.
2026-08-03 14:40:25 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 b7335743d9 Make a host take what its group lends it, everywhere it is read
Step 4 of docs/adding-hosts-on-the-phone.md. The domain could resolve a host
against its groups; nothing asked it to. This is the wiring, and it is mostly
one change repeated: read the resolved host, not the stored one.

TryBuildAuthentication and TryBuildConnectionRequest now take the resolved
value beside the stored one, which is where group context was being lost. It
is the only authentication resolution in the product — both heads and both
transports come through it — so a host inheriting its binding would otherwise
have been offered a password prompt on every screen at once. The
credential-username fallback becomes three levels, and Complete still refuses
an empty username, but now only after the chain has been walked; refusing
before it would refuse exactly the hosts inheritance exists to serve.

HostRowViewModel carries its ResolvedHost, resolved once when the list is
built. Address, Authentication and Dialled read it, so a row cannot disagree
with itself about what it dials — and MainWindowViewModel.Rank searches
Address, so a host inheriting 2222 that displayed 22 would have been
unfindable by the port it actually answers on.

HostsBoundTo counts over the resolved binding, which is the difference between
a warning and a silence: a key bound once on a group and inherited by twenty
hosts named nobody, would have been deleted, and would then have refused all
twenty at connect time.

HostFields.From is answered by a refusal rather than by threading a group list
through the sync engine. A relay host may not inherit its port. The reason is
stronger than the convenience: a plaintext column is a derived duplicate the
client supplies when it pushes *this* host, so an inherited port would make it
depend on another item — editing a group would change what the relay dials for
every host beneath it, except that nothing re-pushes those hosts, so the server
would keep dialling the old port until each was next touched for some unrelated
reason. A stale wire on the relay path connects the user to the wrong service.

The editor distinguishes unset from explicit in both directions. An empty port
box means "take the group's" and shows what that will be as a placeholder,
following the group picker as it moves — a pre-filled 2222 would have been
indistinguishable from one the user typed, and saving would have pinned it. The
authentication picker gains a fourth entry, offered only to a host in a group,
because for an ungrouped host it would behave exactly like the first.

Which found a real defect while the tests were being written. Filing an
ungrouped host into a group silently pinned it to a typed password: the picker
had no "Inherit" entry when it opened, so it sat on "Password (ask each time)",
and saving wrote that as a decision — the host would have been pinned to a
prompt nobody asked for and the group's key would never have reached it. Two
guards now: the picker is rebuilt when the group changes, and BuildHost writes
AsksForPassword only for a host that had the alternative on offer.

The group editor is here too, and the plan never assigned it a step. Without it
no group can carry a default, so every line above would have been unreachable.
It grows a parent picker that leaves out the group itself and everything
beneath it — a courtesy rather than the guarantee, since a cycle assembled from
two offline re-parents was never offered that list — and three defaults beside
the name, each of which may be left empty because "lend nothing" is an answer.

Tags are stored and not editable. TagIds merges, encodes and resolves; no
screen can set one yet, and the editor carries the set through a save untouched
so a client that can set them does not lose them to somebody editing a port.

Eight new tests, and they dial. That is the point of them: a resolved value
that never reaches SshConnectionRequest is a label, and every one of these
failures would be silent — a host connecting to the wrong port, or being asked
for a password it does not need, with nothing on screen admitting it.

Verified by the whole suite: 1390 tests over nineteen projects, none failing.
Both heads build. Nothing on the phone has changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 10:41:28 +02:00
jaap-jan 2caedd93ff Merge branch 'main' into the Android head
Main grew the screens the host-management plan called for — hosts, pins, snippets, logs,
import, teams — plus the ObjectStore and Import projects behind two of them, and moved
WindowsDeviceKeyStore into the desktop head's Platform folder.

Five of those view models landed in a directory this branch had already moved, so they
join the rest in DodoSSH.Client.Shell: git spotted the rename and put them there, and the
namespaces followed. Shell picks up ObjectStore and Import as a result, which the Android
head then gets transitively and will use neither of at first — scoped storage means there
is no ~/.ssh/config to import, and file transfer is out of its first scope.

Desktop suites green at 155 and 64.
2026-07-31 21:03:22 +02:00
jaap-jan d07b336868 Free the terminal from the Hosts screen, and fill the room it left
The WebView sat inside the Hosts grid, so navigating to Files or the keychain
hid every open terminal and the strip that named them. A connection you had
opened was invisible from four of the five screens. The window now has two
surfaces rather than one: a nav rail that says which page you are on, and a
terminal strip that is always there and switches the whole content area to a
shell. Screen keeps meaning "which page" and never becomes a sixth kind of
page, which is why this is two properties instead of one enum with a terminal
member in it.

Every screen lives inside one wrapper panel that collapses when a terminal is
showing. That is not tidiness — the WebView hosts a Win32 child window that
composites above everything Avalonia draws, so a screen left visible over its
rectangle is a screen sliced in half, and this window has shipped that defect
once already. One decision point, IsTerminalShowing, and a nested panel rather
than five compound bindings nobody would remember to extend.

The focus choreography is the part no test in this repo can see. Every reveal
path now focuses in the same turn the WebView appeared, so all three of them
post at DispatcherPriority.Loaded and let the native control re-push its bounds
first. Going the other way had a real bug: the screen-changed branch called a
bare Focus() where it had to release the keyboard from the native child, so
switching from a terminal to Files silently ate the first keystrokes. Rare
before this commit and the primary gesture after it.

The tab strip grew a cross inside each tab, a plus that opens the quick-connect
palette, and middle-click close. Nested buttons are correct here: Avalonia
handles a left press on the cross and deliberately does not handle other
buttons, which is exactly what lets middle-click bubble up from the cross as
well as the tab. The test is PointerUpdateKind rather than
IsMiddleButtonPressed, because the latter reports button state and is also true
for a left press made while the middle button happens to be held. The handler
is on the tab and not the strip, so the background closes nothing by
construction. Plus opens the palette rather than a flyout, since a menu
dropping into the WebView's rectangle may or may not composite above a child
HWND and this repo does not make rendering claims it has not photographed.

Everything a user reads now says keychain. The wire, the database and the
cryptographic spec still say vault, deliberately: renaming those is a migration
and a protocol change for a word. That split is written down rather than left
to be rediscovered as an inconsistency.

Four things that were squeezed into the keychain's category rail, or into
nothing at all, now have screens. Pinned host keys get one, with fingerprints
never truncated and a filter that matches them, because comparing what you have
against what the operator published is the whole workflow; the approved date is
read out of the item's UUIDv7 rather than added as a column, and says so, since
it means first approval and not last use. Keys can be generated in the client,
which needed the openssh-key-v1 container written by hand — there is no BCL or
NSec helper, and the PKCS#8 route is unverified in the SSH library this uses.
The armour carries no passphrase: encrypting it needs bcrypt_pbkdf, which is
Blowfish with a swizzle, in a project whose crypto is otherwise entirely
libsodium, for a protection the key's own remarks argue is redundant inside a
vault. Generation fills the existing editor and stops, so SAVE stays the one
thing that writes. ~/.ssh/config can be imported behind a preview that is
ticked per row and writes nothing until the button; IdentityFile records the
path and imports the key material only on an explicit opt-in, because reading
somebody's private key into a vault is precisely the act this product exists to
make deliberate. Match blocks and ProxyJump are reported rather than obeyed —
one cannot be evaluated statically and the other has nothing behind it to route
with, and a preview that implied otherwise would be worse than one that admits
it.

Files can be dragged in all four directions that are honestly available. Remote
to Explorer does not ship and is not pretended to: the shell wants the bytes
during the drop, which needs a virtual file and a native COM data object,
outside what Avalonia offers. Note for the next person that Avalonia 12
replaced the drag model outright — DataObject and DataFormats are no-op stubs
and IDataObject is not in the reference assembly, so every tutorial written for
11 does not compile here.

Hosts can be grouped, flat and never nested. A parent id merged as a scalar
lets two offline clients each re-parent A under B and B under A, producing a
cycle inside an encrypted payload that no server can police and every reader
would have to detect for ever. Membership lives in that payload rather than in
the one plaintext concession ADR 0001 allows, whose test is that the relay
cannot function without it — nothing on the server reads a group, so what
plaintext would hand over is a clustering of the estate for nothing. The
plaintext column reserved for it is dropped, provably always null, and the
server now refuses a client that sends one; it was never populated, was copied
on apply, and was not cleared on delete, so a group id would have outlived the
host it described.

Snippets insert through xterm rather than through the pump, because xterm is
the only thing that knows whether the remote has bracketed paste on, and that
is what makes a shell treat embedded newlines as text instead of as execute.
The host process moves opaque bytes and never parses output, so it would have
to guess, and guessing wrong runs every line. Running is off by default and the
copy says the text goes into whatever is there — the terminal has no notion of
being at a prompt, and may be in vi or at a password prompt with echo off, so
the Enter the user presses themselves is the entire safety property.

Connections and keychain changes are recorded as synced encrypted items, which
is what makes them auditable by a team later and costs the server knowledge of
connection rate and timing from row counts alone. ADR 0001 already concedes it
cannot hide that class of metadata; the trade is now written into it rather
than left implicit. A connection entry is written once, at close, which is what
makes a synced log tractable: nothing to merge, one outbox row, no chance of
colliding with itself. Live sessions come from memory, not from the log. The
write is void by contract and posts to a bounded channel, because putting an
encrypt-and-write on the teardown path of every session is how closing the
application comes to take four seconds. A ticket opened before a lock still
closes afterwards, since a shell outlives the vault. The activity log hooks the
one generic repository every kind writes through, so it cannot miss a caller —
which is also why the log kinds themselves declare they are not audited, or the
first entry would write an entry about writing an entry. It records the names
of the fields that changed and never their values; a log with an old password
in it would be a plaintext credential store with no vault around it. Retention
is 90 days or 5,000 entries, whichever bites first, pruned on the sync loop
rather than on a second timer.

That log traffic then broke the status line, which is worth recording because
the fix is a shape and not a patch: background sync counted its own log rows as
pushed items, so the quiet rule stopped being quiet and every action's message
was overwritten a second later by a sync report. The report now separates log
rows from user items and the rule reads the latter.

S3 buckets appear as a remote in the file browser, behind the same interface an
SFTP session implements, so the queue and both panes did not have to learn what
they are talking to. Uploads go through a pipe, because the queue wants to
write and the SDK wants to read; memory is then bounded by the part size
instead of buffering a file to disk twice.

Finally, the Windows device key store moved out of the session project, which
was the one thing keeping it from being portable — everything else in it is
platform-neutral, and a Windows CNG dependency in the middle of the vault code
meant a second head could not reference it without dragging Windows along. The
seam that made the move free was already there. docs/android-port.md is the
audit behind that: what ports, what does not, in order of cost, the four
decisions taken, and an inventory of every screen and state the interface has
to carry, written so a design can be made from it directly.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1240 tests at zero warnings, including the end-to-end suite against real
containers. The manual checks that headless Avalonia cannot make — the drag
from Explorer, a generated key against a real host, twelve tabs at the minimum
window width — are listed in docs/manual-checks.md and are still outstanding.
2026-07-31 20:30:05 +02:00