refactor: complete rework of the internals …

closes #93 closes #24 closes #117

BREAKING CHANGE: Instead of asking the OS about the state of the whole system on trigger (what we do today; hard to do fast), or asking the state of the whole system on a timer (what HyperSwitch does today; inaccurate) - instead of one of 2 approaches, v3 observes the Accessibility events such as "an app was launched", "a window was closed". This means we build a cache as we receive these events in the background, and when the user trigger the app, we can show accurate state of the windows instantly.

Of course there is no free lunch, so this approach has its own issues. However from my work on it from the past week, I'm very optimistic! The thing I'm the most excited about actually is not the perf (because on my machine even v2 is instant; I have a recent macbook and no 4k displays), but the fact that we will finally have the thumbnails in order of recently-used to least-recently-used, instead of the order of their stack (z-index) on the desktop. It's a big difference! There are many more limitations that are no longer applying also with this approach.

More context: #45 (comment)

fix: ignore trigger shortcuts if mission control is active

fix: don't trigger ui refreshes if the app is not active

fix: prevent visual flickering (closes #115)

fix: observer leak would throw and crash the app sometimes

fix: quitting multiple apps would refresh the ui multiple times

fix: quitting apps was not properly removing apps from the list …

Instead of using the PSN, we now use .equals() to compare 2 NSRunningApplication as recommended by Apple docs

refactor: cleaner code

fix: compare correctly since pid can go away when an app dies

fix: dock being shown was blocking alt-tab

fix: better focus/order for preferences (closes #80)

fix: handle on-all-spaces windows better

refactor: factorize and document

fix: initial discovery when single space was glitching the os

fix: a title change often means the content has change

fix: don't show ui on fast trigger

fix: open alt-tab during space transitions (closes #92)

fix: don't show floating windows + efficiencies

fix: avoid rendering if app is not used

fix: bring back the window delay that regressed with v2

fix: layout is now correct; also removed layout preferences for now

refactor: minor syntax change

fix: add rough downscaling when there are many windows (closes #69)

fix: remove debug colors

fix: using floor() everywhere to avoid blurry rendering

fix: layout was incorrect resulting in thumbnails clipping

feat: slightly increase contrast (mitigates #82)

ci: update homebrew cask for new releases (closes #75)

fix: some apps should retry observing until it works

fix: app launched while in fullscreen shows first window …

see #114 (comment)

fix: compiler warnings

fix: better float rounding = sharper cell contents

fix: only test permissions on the correct os versions

feat: debug build has code-signing to preserve permissions

fix: more robust screen-recording permission check

ci: display env vars at the beginning of a build

ci: remove travis warning by updating keys

ci: sign releases with apple dev certificate (closes #13)

fix: don't upscale thumbnails of small windows

feat: better packing; tall thumbnails are 1/2 the width of wide ones

ci: more packed layout by default

feat: add back the preferences for the new layout algo

feat: divide preferences by topic (closes #130)

refactor: factorize code in extension

fix: added releases link and aligned layout left on tab 3

feat: nicer layout for about preferences

refactor: organize the ui code hierarchically

refactor: remove unnecessary protocol

feat: add in-app feedback form (closes #145)

fix: regression on collectionviewitem titles (not showing)

feat: quit button is clearer with explicit mention of the name

feat: separating the quit button as it is a special case

feat: more appealing presentation + minor refac

feat: add feedback button on about window

feat: support macos "sudden termination" …

More info: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/processinfo#1651129

feat: add debug profile to feedback message

feat: cleaner layout and explanation text

feat: replace default copyright with correct licence

fix: keyboard shortcuts didn't work without a menu

fix: better textareas

feat: add licence to about page …

Also use data from Info.plist to make it more DRY

feat: localization (closes #134)

feat: german and spanish localization

fix: some apps have messy launch behavior …

See discussion: #117 (comment)

feat: drag-and-drop files on the ui (closes #74)

feat: adding cocoapods and letsmove/sparkle

feat: integrate sparkle for auto-updates (closes #131)

feat: migrate to standard os-backed preferences (closes #161)

feat: make system calls more parallel (closes #160)

refactor: remove non-resources

fix: layout regression introduced by eed0353

ci: more logs from altool to follow progress

ci: big refac to finally rationalize the xcode mess …

XCode project/workspace/configurations/target/pods have been in a mess for a while. Some changes done to address that:

* remove alt-tab-macos/ which was confusing
* ci/ becomes scripts/ as these can be used locally too
* added 3 xcconfig files to set aside important parameters so we stop passing flags around or modifying the huge pbxproj

fix: notarization issues

ci: schemes should be shared and versioned

fix: letsmove was not active on release builds

ci: only 1 build, not 1 for each env var

ci: adding back missing codesign cert

ci: added missing pod install

refactor: less unnecessary logs

fix: also codesign debug builds

fix: getting sparkle ready for release

feat: improved translations

fix: feedback token injected during ci …

Github expires token in source code so we have to hide it away in CI (for now)

refactor: move resources to top level

docs: add a guide to navigate the project for newcomers

louis.pontoise authored and lwouis committed Feb 24, 2020

refactor: remove unused protocol

lwouis committed Feb 24, 2020

refactor: correctly append to build settings from pods

lwouis committed Feb 24, 2020

fix: auto-update preferences sync with os from launch

lwouis committed Feb 26, 2020

fix: cpu and memory leaks (see discussion in #117)

lwouis committed Mar 5, 2020

refactor: remove debug logs

lwouis committed Mar 5, 2020

fix: list temporary AXDialog windows like activity monitor

lwouis committed Mar 6, 2020

feat: add an app icon and menubar icon (closes #38)

lwouis committed Mar 9, 2020

fix: smaller payload for the icons

lwouis committed Mar 9, 2020

feat: add preference to start at login (closes #159)

lwouis committed Mar 10, 2020

fix: ignore build folder

lwouis committed Mar 10, 2020

fix: sharper images on non-retina displays

lwouis committed Mar 10, 2020

fix: remove unnecessary/wrong layout code

lwouis committed Mar 10, 2020