Two fixes that surfaced from daily use after the v0.2.2 popout polish round 1.
1. Show download progress on the active thumbnail when the
embedded preview is hidden (gui/app.py)
After the previous fix to suppress the dl_progress widget when
the popout is open, the user lost all visible feedback about
the active download in the main app. The grid had no indicator,
the dl_progress widget was hidden, and the only signal was the
status bar text "Loading #X..." at the bottom edge.
`_on_post_activated` now decides per call whether to use the
dl_progress widget at the bottom of the right splitter or fall
back to drawing the download progress on the active thumbnail
in the main grid via the existing prefetch-progress paint path.
The decision is captured at function entry as
`preview_hidden = not (self._preview.isVisible() and
self._preview.width() > 0)` and closed over by the `_progress`
callback and the `_load` coroutine, so the indicator that
starts on a download stays on the same target even if the user
opens or closes the popout mid-download.
The thumbnail bar uses the same paint path as prefetch
indicators (`set_prefetch_progress(0.0..1.0)` for fill,
`set_prefetch_progress(-1)` for clear), so the visual is
identical and no new widget code was added. `_load`'s finally
block emits the clear when `preview_hidden` was true at start.
Generalizes to any reason the preview is hidden, not just the
popout-open case: a user who has dragged the main splitter to
collapse the preview also gets the thumbnail indicator now,
even with the popout closed.
2. Stop auto-showing the popout overlay on every navigation
(gui/preview.py)
`FullscreenPreview.set_media` ended with an unconditional
`self._show_overlay()` call, which meant the floating toolbar
and video controls bar popped back into view on every left/
right/hjkl navigation between posts. Visually noisy and not
what the user wants once they've started navigating — the
overlay is supposed to be a hover-triggered surface, not a
per-post popup.
Removed the call. The overlay is still shown by:
- `__init__` default state (`_ui_visible = True`), so the
user sees it for ~2 seconds on first popout open and the
auto-hide timer hides it after that
- `eventFilter` mouse-move-into-top/bottom-edge zone (the
intended hover trigger, unchanged)
- Volume scroll on video stack (unchanged)
- Ctrl+H toggle (unchanged)
After this, the only way the overlay appears mid-session is
hover or Ctrl+H. Navigation through posts no longer flashes it
back into view.
Three independent fixes accumulated since the v0.2.2 viewport
compute swap. Bundled because they all touch preview.py and
app.py and the staging surface doesn't split cleanly.
1. Suppress dl_progress flash when popout is open (gui/app.py)
The QProgressBar at the bottom of the right splitter was
unconditionally show()'d on every post click via _on_post_activated
and _on_download_progress, including when the popout was open.
With the popout open, the right splitter is set to [0, 0, 1000]
and the user typically has the main splitter dragged to give the
grid full width — the show() call then forces a layout pass on
the right splitter that briefly compresses the main grid before
the download finishes (often near-instant for cached files) and
hide() fires. Visible flash on every grid click, including
clicks on the same post that's already loaded, because
download_image still runs against the cache and the show/hide
cycle still fires.
Three callsites now skip the dl_progress widget entirely when
the popout is visible. The status bar message ("Loading #X...")
still updates so the user has feedback in the main window. With
the popout closed, behavior is unchanged.
2. Cache hyprctl_get_window across one fit call (gui/preview.py)
_fit_to_content was calling _hyprctl_get_window three times per
fit:
- At the top, to determine the floating state
- Inside _derive_viewport_for_fit, to read at/size for the
viewport derivation
- Inside _hyprctl_resize_and_move, to look up the window
address for the dispatch
Each call is a ~3ms subprocess.run that blocks the Qt event
loop. ~9ms of UI freeze per navigation, perceptible as
"slow/glitchy" especially on rapid clicking.
Added optional `win=None` parameter to _derive_viewport_for_fit
and _hyprctl_resize_and_move. _fit_to_content now fetches `win`
once at the top and threads it down. Per-fit subprocess count
drops from 3 to 1 (~6ms saved per navigation).
3. Discord screen-share audio capture works (gui/preview.py)
mpv defaults to ao=pipewire on Linux, which is the native
PipeWire audio output. Discord's screen-share-with-audio
capture on Linux only enumerates clients connected via the
libpulse API; native PipeWire clients are invisible to it.
The visible symptom: video plays locally fine but audio is
silently dropped from any Discord screen share. Firefox works
because Firefox uses libpulse to talk to PipeWire's pulseaudio
compat layer.
Verified by inspection: with ao=pipewire, mpv's sink-input had
`module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-id:..."`
(the native-pipewire form). With ao=pulse, the same client
shows `"sink-input-by-application-name:..."` (the pulseaudio
protocol form, identical to Firefox's entry). wireplumber
literally renames the restore key to indicate the protocol.
Fix is one mpv option. Set `ao="pulse,wasapi,"` in the MPV
constructor: comma-separated priority list, mpv tries each in
order. `pulse` works on Linux via the pipewire pulseaudio compat
layer; `wasapi` is the Windows audio API; trailing empty falls
through to the compiled-in default. No platform branch needed
in the constructor — mpv silently skips audio outputs that
aren't available on the current platform.
Also added `audio_client_name="booru-viewer"` so the client
shows up in pulseaudio/pipewire introspection tools as
booru-viewer rather than the default "mpv Media Player". Sets
application.name, application.id, application.icon_name,
node.name, and device.description to "booru-viewer". Cosmetic
on its own but groups mpv's audio under the same identity as
the Qt application.
References for the Discord audio bug:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/11100https://github.com/edisionnano/Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linuxhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=307698
The old _fit_to_content was width-anchored with an asymmetric height
clamp, so every portrait nav back-derived a smaller width and P>L>P
loops progressively shrunk landscape. Replaced with a viewport-keyed
compute (long_side + center), symmetric across aspect flips. The
non-Hyprland branch now uses setGeometry instead of self.resize() to
stop top-left drift.
Three fixes that all surfaced from the bookmark/library decoupling
shake-out:
- Popout first-image aspect-lock race: _fit_to_content used to call
_is_hypr_floating which returned None for both "not Hyprland" and
"Hyprland but the window isn't visible to hyprctl yet". The latter
happens on the very first popout open because the wm:openWindow
event hasn't been processed when set_media fires. The method then
fell through to a plain Qt resize and skipped the
keep_aspect_ratio setprop, so the first image always opened
unlocked and only subsequent navigations got the right shape. Now
we inline the env-var check, distinguish the two None cases, and
retry on Hyprland with a 40ms backoff (capped at 5 attempts /
200ms total) when the window isn't registered yet.
- Image fill in popout (and embedded preview): ImageViewer._fit_to_view
used min(scale_w, scale_h, 1.0) which clamped the zoom at native
pixel size, so a smaller image in a larger window centered with
letterbox space around it. Dropped the 1.0 cap so images scale up
to fill the available view, matching how the video player fills
its widget. Combined with the popout's keep_aspect_ratio, the
window matches the image's aspect AND the image fills it cleanly.
Tiled popouts with mismatched aspect still letterbox (intentional —
the layout owns the window shape).
- Combo + button padding tightening across all 12 bundled themes
and Library sort combo: QPushButton padding 2px 8px → 2px 6px,
QComboBox padding 2px 6px → 2px 4px, QComboBox::drop-down width
18px → 14px. Saves 8px non-text width per combo and 4px per
button, so the new "Post ID" sort entry fits in 75px instead of
needing 90. Library sort combo bumped from "Name" (lexicographic)
to "Post ID" with a numeric stem sort that handles non-digit
stems gracefully.
Bookmark folders and library folders used to share identity through
_db.get_folders() — the same string was both a row in favorite_folders
and a directory under saved_dir. They look like one concept but they're
two stores, and the cross-bleed produced a duplicate-on-move bug and
made "Save to Library" silently re-file the bookmark too.
Now they're independent name spaces:
- library_folders() in core.config reads filesystem subdirs of
saved_dir; the source of truth for every Save-to-Library menu
- find_library_files(post_id) walks the library shallowly and is the
new "is this saved?" / delete primitive
- bookmark folders stay DB-backed and are only used for bookmark
organization (filter combo, Move to Folder)
- delete_from_library no longer takes a folder hint — walks every
library folder by post id and deletes every match (also cleans up
duplicates left by the old save-to-folder copy bug)
- _save_to_library is move-aware: if the post is already in another
library folder, atomic Path.rename() into the destination instead
of re-copying from cache (the duplicate bug fix)
- bookmark "Move to Folder" no longer also calls _copy_to_library;
Save to Library no longer also calls move_bookmark_to_folder
- settings export/import unchanged; favorite_folders table preserved
so no migration
UI additions:
- Library tab right-click: Move to Folder submenu (single + multi),
uses Path.rename for atomic moves
- Bookmarks tab: − Folder button next to + Folder for deleting the
selected bookmark folder (DB-only, library filesystem untouched)
- Browse tab right-click: "Bookmark" replaced with "Bookmark as"
submenu when not yet bookmarked (Unfiled / folders / + New); flat
"Remove Bookmark" when already bookmarked
- Embedded preview Bookmark button: same submenu shape via new
bookmark_to_folder signal + set_bookmark_folders_callback
- Popout Bookmark button: same shape — works in both browse and
bookmarks tab modes
- Popout Save button: Save-to-Library submenu via new save_to_folder
+ unsave_requested signals (drops save_toggle_requested + the
_save_toggle_from_popout indirection)
- Popout in library mode: Save button stays visible as Unsave; the
rest of the toolbar (Bookmark / BL Tag / BL Post) is hidden
State plumbing:
- _update_fullscreen_state mirrors the embedded preview's
_is_bookmarked / _is_saved instead of re-querying DB+filesystem,
eliminating the popout state drift during async bookmark adds
- Library tab Save button reads "Unsave" the entire time; Save
button width bumped 60→75 so the label doesn't clip on tight themes
- Embedded preview tracks _is_bookmarked alongside _is_saved so the
new Bookmark-as submenu can flip to a flat unbookmark when active
Naming:
- "Unsorted" renamed to "Unfiled" everywhere user-facing — library
Unfiled and bookmarks Unfiled now share one label. Internal
comparison in library.py:_scan_files updated to match the combo.
Mixing `threading.Thread + asyncio.run` workers with the long-lived
asyncio loop in gui/app.py is a real loop-affinity bug: the first worker
thread to call `asyncio.run` constructs a throwaway loop, which the
shared httpx clients then attach to, and the next call from the
persistent loop fails with "Event loop is closed" / "attached to a
different loop". This commit eliminates the pattern across the GUI and
adds the locking + cleanup that should have been there from the start.
Persistent loop accessor (core/concurrency.py — new)
- set_app_loop / get_app_loop / run_on_app_loop. BooruApp registers the
one persistent loop at startup; everything that wants to schedule
async work calls run_on_app_loop instead of spawning a thread that
builds its own loop. Three functions, ~30 lines, single source of
truth for "the loop".
Lazy-init lock + cleanup on shared httpx clients (core/api/base.py,
core/api/e621.py, core/cache.py)
- Each shared singleton (BooruClient._shared_client, E621Client._e621_client,
cache._shared_client) now uses fast-path / locked-slow-path lazy init.
Concurrent first-callers from the same loop can no longer both build
a client and leak one (verified: 10 racing callers => 1 httpx instance).
- Each module exposes an aclose helper that BooruApp.closeEvent runs via
run_coroutine_threadsafe(...).result(timeout=5) BEFORE stopping the
loop. The connection pool, keepalive sockets, and TLS state finally
release cleanly instead of being abandoned at process exit.
- E621Client tracks UA-change leftovers in _e621_to_close so the old
client doesn't leak when api_user changes — drained in aclose_shared.
GUI workers routed through the persistent loop (gui/sites.py,
gui/bookmarks.py)
- SiteDialog._on_detect / _on_test: replaced
`threading.Thread(target=lambda: asyncio.run(...))` with
run_on_app_loop. Results marshaled back through Qt Signals connected
with QueuedConnection. Added _closed flag + _inflight futures list:
closeEvent cancels pending coroutines and shorts out the result emit
if the user closes the dialog mid-detect (no use-after-free on
destroyed QObject).
- BookmarksView._load_thumb_async: same swap. The existing thumb_ready
signal already used QueuedConnection so the marshaling side was
already correct.
DB write serialization (core/db.py)
- Database._write_lock = threading.RLock() — RLock not Lock so a
writing method can call another writing method on the same thread
without self-deadlocking.
- New _write() context manager composes the lock + sqlite3's connection
context manager (the latter handles BEGIN / COMMIT / ROLLBACK
atomically). Every write method converted: add_site, update_site,
delete_site, add_bookmark, add_bookmarks_batch, remove_bookmark,
update_bookmark_cache_path, add_folder, remove_folder, rename_folder,
move_bookmark_to_folder, add/remove_blacklisted_tag,
add/remove_blacklisted_post, save_library_meta, remove_library_meta,
set_setting, add_search_history, clear_search_history,
remove_search_history, add_saved_search, remove_saved_search.
- _migrate keeps using the lock + raw _conn context manager because
it runs from inside the conn property's lazy init (where _write()
would re-enter conn).
- Reads stay lock-free and rely on WAL for reader concurrency. Verified
under contention: 5 threads × 50 add_bookmark calls => 250 rows,
zero corruption, zero "database is locked" errors.
Smoke-tested with seven scenarios: get_app_loop raises before set,
run_on_app_loop round-trips, lazy init creates exactly one client,
10 concurrent first-callers => 1 httpx, aclose_shared cleans up,
RLock allows nested re-acquire, multi-threaded write contention.
Sweep of defensive hardening across the core layers plus a related popout
overlay regression that surfaced during verification.
Database integrity (core/db.py)
- Wrap delete_site, add_search_history, remove_folder, rename_folder,
and _migrate in `with self.conn:` so partial commits can't leave
orphan rows on a crash mid-method.
- add_bookmark re-SELECTs the existing id when INSERT OR IGNORE
collides on (site_id, post_id). Was returning Bookmark(id=0)
silently, which then no-op'd update_bookmark_cache_path the next
time the post was bookmarked.
- get_bookmarks LIKE clauses now ESCAPE '%', '_', '\\' so user search
literals stop acting as SQL wildcards (cat_ear no longer matches
catear).
Path traversal (core/db.py + core/config.py)
- Validate folder names at write time via _validate_folder_name —
rejects '..', os.sep, leading '.' / '~'. Permits Unicode/spaces/
parens so existing folders keep working.
- saved_folder_dir() resolves the candidate path and refuses anything
that doesn't relative_to the saved-images base. Defense in depth
against folder strings that bypass the write-time validator.
- gui/bookmarks.py and gui/app.py wrap add_folder calls in try/except
ValueError and surface a QMessageBox.warning instead of crashing.
Download safety (core/cache.py)
- New _do_download(): payloads >=50MB stream to a tempfile in the
destination dir and atomically os.replace into place; smaller
payloads keep the existing buffer-then-write fast path. Both
enforce a 500MB hard cap against the advertised Content-Length AND
the running total inside the chunk loop (servers can lie).
- Per-URL asyncio.Lock coalesces concurrent downloads of the same
URL so two callers don't race write_bytes on the same path.
- Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = 256M with DecompressionBombError handling
in both converters.
- _convert_ugoira_to_gif checks frame count + cumulative uncompressed
size against UGOIRA_MAX_FRAMES / UGOIRA_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED_BYTES from
ZipInfo headers BEFORE decompressing — defends against zip bombs.
- _convert_animated_to_gif writes a .convfailed sentinel sibling on
failure to break the re-decode-on-every-paint loop for malformed
animated PNGs/WebPs.
- _is_valid_media returns True (don't delete) on OSError so a
transient EBUSY/permissions hiccup no longer triggers a delete +
re-download loop on every access.
- _referer_for() uses proper hostname suffix matching, not substring
`in` (imgblahgelbooru.attacker.com no longer maps to gelbooru.com).
- PIL handles wrapped in `with` blocks for deterministic cleanup.
API client retry + visibility (core/api/*)
- base.py: _request retries on httpx.NetworkError + ConnectError in
addition to TimeoutException. test_connection no longer echoes the
HTTP response body in the error string (it was an SSRF body-leak
gadget when used via detect_site_type's redirect-following client).
- detect.py + danbooru.py + e621.py + gelbooru.py + moebooru.py:
every previously-swallowed exception in search/autocomplete/probe
paths now logs at WARNING with type, message, and (where relevant)
the response body prefix. Debugging "the site isn't working" used
to be a total blackout.
main_gui.py
- file_dialog_platform DB probe failure prints to stderr instead of
vanishing.
Popout overlay (gui/preview.py + gui/app.py)
- preview.py:79,141 — setAttribute(WA_StyledBackground, True) on
_slideshow_toolbar and _slideshow_controls. Plain QWidget parents
silently ignore QSS `background:` declarations without this
attribute, which is why the popout overlay strip was rendering
fully transparent (buttons styled, bar behind them showing the
letterbox color).
- app.py: bake _BASE_POPOUT_OVERLAY_QSS as a fallback prepended
before the user's custom.qss in the loader. Custom themes that
don't define overlay rules now still get a translucent black
bar with white text + hairline borders. Bundled themes win on
tie because their identical-specificity rules come last in the
prepended string.
Old staggered drain (50ms per post) was added for visual polish but
made infinite scroll painfully slow — a 40-post page took 2 seconds
just to add to the grid. Thumbnails already load async via _fetch_thumbnail,
so the stagger was just delaying grid population for no real benefit.
Now all posts are added instantly in one pass with thumbnails filling in
as they arrive. Scroll trigger widened from 1 row to 3 rows from bottom
so the next page starts loading before you reach the end.
