Terminal, notes, and music player fixes ahead of the first release - #27
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Op cards (Write/Diff) already linked their file paths, but a path named in
ordinary prose ("I've created xbox.txt at C:\...") stayed dead text. The
transcript now walks each assistant message's text and wraps path-shaped
runs in the same clickable link the op cards use, so clicking opens the
file in its default app either way.
The matching regex is deliberately conservative: it only treats something
as a path if it's drive/UNC-rooted or ends in a known file extension,
which is what keeps prices, version numbers, and bare URLs from being
mistaken for file paths.
Every other rail icon gets its color from RefreshNavIcons, but the music icon was never in that list, so it fell back to WinUI's default foreground instead of following the current theme. It now pulls from the same theme brush the gold equalizer bars already used, so it retints automatically whenever the theme changes.
Picking a folder with no MP3s used to create the playlist anyway, and that empty playlist could never appear in the picker again afterward (the list only shows genres that actually have a track), so it became an invisible, unremovable folder on disk. Re-picking the same folder would then falsely claim it was "already added." The folder's MP3 count is now checked before anything is created. An empty folder leaves no trace and gets a clear, specific message instead. Also gives this picker its own SettingsIdentifier, alongside the fix in the next commit.
Windows remembers a picker's last-visited folder per SettingsIdentifier, and none of our pickers set one — so every FolderPicker/FileOpenPicker/ FileSavePicker in the app was sharing a single memory slot. Picking an MP3 folder in the Music flyout, for example, would silently become the starting folder the next time you opened the "change project root" picker, even though the project root itself never changed. Each picker (project root, chat background image, skill install folder, skill install zip, transcript export) now gets its own identifier, so they can no longer bleed into each other.
The terminal is the one place someone would actually run the CLI, so a dim, one-line note now appears there — but only once every 20 shell sessions, and never at all once the tool is detected as installed. It's written straight into the shell's own display buffer (never through its stdin), so it can't be mistaken for a command or interfere with anything in progress. Detection is a local file/PATH check with no network call, and every uncertain case (can't read the counter, can't resolve PATH) resolves to staying silent rather than risking a repeat.
Undo used to be single-use: clicking it restored the note but forgot what it had just undone, so there was no way back to the assistant's edit. This reframes the same state as a toggle between the buffer right before the edit and right after it, so Redo can put it back — and you can flip between the two as many times as you like. Still single-level by design: typing anything that lands outside those two exact states clears both, same as it already did for Undo alone.
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Summary
Six small, independent fixes and improvements to MandoCode Desktop, bundled together as one release-prep pass. Nothing here touches the AI engine or the CLI — this is all app UI/UX polish.
mandocodeCLI installed, they'll now see an occasional one-line tip (at most once every 20 terminal sessions, and never once it's installed) suggesting the install command. It's not a popup or a repeated nag — just a quiet aside.Test plan
mandocodeCLI not installed, confirm the install hint appears once and only once for a while