Kill the entire D-Bus rendering pipeline. The GUI now uses plan9port's
9p command as a subprocess for all server communication:
- Chat streaming: persistent 'read chat' process, readyReadStandardOutput
delivers tokens directly to QML (no polling, no signals, no offsets)
- State: 'read statewait' process, restarts on each state change
- Session list: 'read session/idx' one-shot
- Submit/stop/kill: 'write prompt/ctl' one-shot
The QML is stripped to fundamentals: session list + monospace streaming
text (last 8KB tail) + input field. No ChatBlockModel, no ThemeManager,
no OllieDBusClient, no syntax highlighting, no markdown rendering.
This eliminates the multi-second GUI freezes caused by:
- QTextDocument relayout on 200KB+ accumulated text
- loadEarlier cascade creating hundreds of delegates
- KSyntaxHighlighting::Repository blocking init
- Offset mismatch triggering synchronous D-Bus calls
Features will be re-added incrementally on this proven foundation.
D-Bus retained only for plasmoid/tray/KRunner (desktop integration).
When the new-session dialog opens, the backend combo defaults to index 0
but onCurrentTextChanged doesn't fire for the initial value. Explicitly
call listModelsByBackend for the default backend so the model dropdown
is populated immediately.
Optional name field in the dialog. If provided, the session is
renamed immediately after creation via RenameSession D-Bus call.
Left blank, the auto-generated ID is used as before.
- Expose GuiActivator as "activator" context property
- Add Ctrl+N shortcut to open a new window (both KF5 and KF6)
- Add per-session draft text persistence to main-kf5.qml
(KF6 ChatPane.qml already had this from previous commit)
Replace simple folder picker with a full dialog. Adds listBackends()
and listModels() to OllieDBusClient. createSession() now accepts
backend and model parameters.
Adds errorOccurred signal to OllieDBusClient, emitted when
CreateSession (or other async calls) fail. GUI shows a modal
dialog; plasmoid shows a passive notification.
- OllieDBusClient: detachProcess, listDetached, signalDetached,
getDetachedOutput, dismissDetached methods + D-Bus signal handlers
- ChatPane.qml: Detach button (visible during calling: state) +
badge showing detached process count (click opens Process Manager)
- main.qml + main-kf5.qml: Process Manager window with process list,
live output tail, Term/Kill/Dismiss buttons per process
Full split-pane implementation:
- Ctrl+\ splits focused pane (BSP tree layout, alternating h/v)
- Ctrl+W closes focused pane (collapses parent split)
- Sloppy focus: pane focuses when mouse stops moving (100ms)
- Drag header to another pane to swap sessions
- Multi-line TextArea prompt with emoji shortcode completion
- Each pane has own ChatBlockModel and D-Bus signal filtering
- Auto-relayout on window resize
Major refactor: extracted chat UI into ChatPane.qml (self-contained
with own ChatBlockModel, D-Bus signal filtering, prompt input).
Main content area is now a SplitView with dynamic pane creation.
Auto-layout: splits horizontal if window wider than tall.
Sidebar click updates the focused pane session.
New OllieDBusClient methods: getChat, getConfig, getState (per-session).
New signal: chatAppended (emitted for all sessions, not just active).
Circular node layout showing all sessions with peer relationship edges.
Nodes are color-coded by state (green=idle, blue=thinking, orange=calling),
pulse when active. Click a node to select that session.
Toggle between list and graph view in sidebar toolbar.
Adds peerList() to OllieDBusClient.
- Add configurable close-to-tray (Settings > System Tray)
- QSystemTrayIcon with show/hide toggle and quit action
- closeToTray property persisted in theme.conf
- Window hides instead of quitting when enabled
- Fix session rename being interrupted by state changes
- onStateChanged no longer calls refreshSessions()
- State updates in-place via sessionStateUpdated signal
- Delegates track state locally, preserving rename TextField
- Replace Qt.callLater scroll debounce with Timer (16ms) to coalesce
rapid contentHeight changes and eliminate scroll flickering
- Add execute button (play icon) on code blocks for scripted languages
(bash, python, perl, ruby, etc.) — launches in terminal
- Fix assistant bubble width: always use 95% of available width
- Add minimum width (280px) to code fence blocks
- Move emoji popup into prompt RowLayout so it appears near input
- Disable wheel scroll inertia (direct contentY) while keeping flick
inertia intact
- Apply all fixes to both KF5 and KF6 QML files
- Tool blocks: expanded via sub-blocks (same as assistant) so embedded
diffs and code fences render properly with coloring
- Call blocks: always JSON, use formattedContent (pretty-print + highlight)
- Prose sub-blocks use Text.MarkdownText for native backtick/bold/link support
Tool results often contain markdown with code fences and diffs.
Using formattedContent treated the whole block as raw text.
Now tool blocks expand into parsed sub-blocks (prose, code, diff)
just like assistant blocks, so embedded diffs get colored.
QML scope issues made JS-based formatting unreliable. New approach:
- FormattedContentRole in the model computes pretty-printed HTML in C++
- Call blocks: always prettyJson()
- Tool blocks: detect JSON/diff and format, otherwise escaped HTML
- QML just binds text: block.formattedContent || ""
The onVisibleChanged approach failed because block.blockContent could
not resolve through the Loader scope. Now using direct binding:
- call blocks: text bound to chatModel.prettyJson(block.blockContent)
- tool blocks: detect JSON/diff, format accordingly
- prettyJson() uses QJsonDocument for proper indentation + KSyntaxHighlighting
- Only evaluated when visible (lazy)
ListView.positionViewAtEnd() causes freezes by forcing instantiation
of all delegates to measure total height. Flickable+Column avoids this
- contentHeight is computed directly from Column.implicitHeight
- Scroll to bottom is just contentY = contentHeight - height
- No virtualization needed with only 20 blocks
- Eliminates all positionViewAtEnd and _scrolling guard complexity
- Code blocks show plain text immediately, highlight via Timer after
150ms (prevents blocking the render thread during initial load)
- Reduced initial blocks from 40 to 20
- Detect append vs full reset in setRawText for better session switch
- Model shows last 40 blocks initially, positioned at end
- Scrolling near top triggers loadEarlier() which prepends 30 blocks
- Scroll position maintained after prepend via contentY adjustment
- All blocks still parsed (for searching later) but only tail rendered
- Reduced initial render cost significantly
With 300KB+ chat logs producing hundreds of blocks, instantiating all
delegates was causing unresponsiveness. Cap the model at the last 80
blocks and set cacheBuffer: 200 to limit off-screen rendering.
- ChatBlockModel::reparse() now does incremental diffs instead of
beginResetModel which destroys all delegates and resets scroll
- ListView scroll uses _scrolling guard to prevent infinite loop
from positionViewAtEnd triggering contentHeightChanged
Levi Neely
Levi Neely