I finished the big refactor! I pushed around 25 commits to GitHub at once. I’m really gonna enjoy adding the next feature, basking in how much easier it is ;)

Apparently, I never made a service for session stats, so it currently can’t persist its one setting. Actually, writing this I realized that the setting isn’t actually used, so I can delete it. That’s great.

After finally kicking out all the annoying legacy panel code, I remembered that I never re-implemented the positioning or its related persistence code for the new panel system.

The persistence system was reworked too, something that I don’t think really got included in the previous devlog. Each service can implement save, and there are generic helper methods in a common module for saving/loading serde structs to a file in the app data directory. The actual app now uses this method as well instead of doing all the pathing logic itself, so the persistence module is pretty small and could honestly be moved into app.rs.

For new positioning, I store a list of open panels. Weirdly enough, it’s actually a lot easier than adding a position/is_open field to every AppPanel. So, I run the name through a Hasher to make a u64 which is easier to clone/copy and stuff and made a newtype around a PanelId. That way I could reuse the code from the previous paneling system to swap/manage open PanelIds, then just use find on the AppPanel vec to find the corresponding widget.

Also, I never mentioned it but I’ve been trying RustRover for the past few devlogs. It’s a lot more stable than Zed, but I sorta miss its snappiness and minimalism. If I end up finding an annoying bug in RustRover, I’ll probably switch back. However, it’s been quite a few days and I don’t think I’ve found a single one. JetBrains is truly awesome at tooling.

See ya next time. Probably will do my next ship soon :)