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).
Child MouseArea inside Flickable interferes with drag detection even
when only accepting RightButton. Move it to a sibling overlay with
propagateComposedEvents so left-drag reaches the Flickable natively.
Remove manual pan logic. Let Flickable handle drag-to-pan natively.
MouseArea only accepts RightButton (close) and wheel (zoom), so it
no longer steals left-click events from the Flickable.
Left-click drag was unreliable for panning. Use Meta (Super/Win key)
+ left-click-drag instead. Flickable interactive mode disabled;
panning is handled manually via MouseArea.
- Detect mermaid/plantuml/drawio/mxgraph code fences as 'diagram' sub-blocks
- Render via local servers (PlantUML :8080, Mermaid :8081, draw.io :8082)
- Fall back to CLI tools (plantuml, mmdc, drawio) if servers unavailable
- Cache rendered SVGs in ~/.cache/*/diagrams/ keyed by content hash
- Show rendered image with white background (dark theme friendly)
- Collapsible source toggle (▶/▼) below rendered diagram
- Middle-click to invalidate cache and re-render
- Left-click opens fullscreen pannable/zoomable viewer
- Fullscreen: scroll-wheel zoom, drag to pan, Esc/right-click/dbl-click to close
- Both kf5 and kf6 builds
Same fixes as kf5:
- Remove hover-based sloppy focus that stole focus from buttons
- Add Ctrl+L to focus prompt
- Add emoji reaction buttons on assistant message hover
Adds a filterText property to ChatBlockModel that filters all
parsed blocks by case-insensitive substring match on content
or tool/call name. Toggle the filter bar with Ctrl+F; Escape
or the close button clears the filter and hides the bar.
Shows match count while filtering.
Use palette.mid at 60% opacity when active (scrolling), fully
transparent when idle, palette.mid on hover, palette.highlight
when pressed. 150ms color animation for smooth transitions.
- Add ScrollBar.vertical to the chat Flickable (both KF5/KF6)
- Remove interactive:false so native flick gestures work
- Trigger paneModel.loadEarlier() when scrolled near top
- Preserve scroll position when prepending older blocks
- Reduce column width by 12px for scrollbar clearance
When switching between sessions, the draft text in the prompt
is saved and restored. Each pane maintains a _drafts map keyed
by session ID, so switching away and back preserves whatever
was typed.
- YouTube videos show hqdefault.jpg thumbnail
- All cards have minimum 200px height
- Play button opens in browser (fixed parent chain)
- Use id-based refs instead of fragile parent.parent chains
Detect video URLs (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitch, direct media)
in chat responses. Direct .mp4/.webm/.ogv files play inline via
QtMultimedia Video. Other video sites show a card with play button
that opens in the system browser.
Adds Qt6::Multimedia dependency.
Replace full-pane MouseArea sloppy focus with HoverHandler which
does not interfere with click event delivery. Also increase timer
to 300ms and guard against redundant forceActiveFocus() calls.
- 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).
Levi Neely
Levi Neely