devlog #8 - too many changes!

my devlogs from here on are going to be getting a lot longer now because i’m really settling into the grind, so i’m going to try out a more structured format.

dialogs!

i implemented a whole dialog box system into caribou (the window manager). so far it only has confirm (cancel/ok) style dialogs but it’s modular so i’ll be sure to add plenty more in the future. dialogs return promises that resolve with a value when an action happens (like when the dialog is closed), and this can then be used to execute code. this all came about because i wanted to add fullscreen mode but apparently browsers don’t like it when you request fullscreen without user interaction so here we are!

changelog changes (?)

the changelog, as promised, pulls directly from github to ensure you always get the most up-to-date changes with minimal effort on my end ! it uses marked and DOMPurify to parse the CHANGELOG.md from the repo and to make sure you are personally secure from anyone who’s dumb enough to waste their time trying to attack tundra.

preparing for themes

soon, i’ll work on adding themes to tundra so i decided i’d make it a bit easier for myself by making every single value that might want to be changed in css a variable. this was excruciatingly painful but we got through it in the end (it took like 10 minutes max). also, the background is now loaded dynamically through js which will lead to custom backgrounds at some point (much to the dismay of my browser’s performance)

next steps

• improve the dialog system and add more dialog types
• add a filesystem (very scary)
• add more apps
• add theming and changeable backgrounds