v1.4.5 beta

What's new

• Quick chat. A key combination (Alt+Space, or your own in Settings → General) brings a small chat up over whatever you are doing, with the app open or not. It comes as a message field first, then the rest. It has its own model and effort, can search the web, opens photos large, and keeps its chats in the list with a bolt; the arrows in its head open the chat in the app. Give its agent a task and close it: the agent goes on, and the chat is marked when the answer is there. With nothing to do, a closed quick chat sleeps and uses no processor.
• A glass sidebar. What is behind the window shows through the sidebar.
• Your colours. In Settings → Appearance: the colour of your own messages (16 of them) and the chat's background (9 for each theme). Each theme keeps its own pick, and until you pick, the themes look as they always did.
• Quieter notices. "Memory updated" and notes are small black capsules.
• The settings have a plain side: black on the dark theme, white on the light.
• macOS: permissions. Until now the Mac build was not signed at all, so macOS had nothing to tie a permission to and could not remember what you had allowed: it asked again and again, even in Full access. The app is now sealed with a signature of its own. See below for what this does and does not change.

What does not work, or works differently

• Glass sidebar: Windows 11 and macOS only. On Windows 10 and on Linux the sidebar stays solid, as before.
• Quick chat on Linux is plainer: its window is the card itself, without the soft shadow and the light round it, and starting with the computer is left to the desktop's own settings. On Wayland the system may not give an app a global key combination at all.
• Quick chat has no built-in browser. It searches the web; for work in the browser, open the chat in the app with the arrows.
• Alt+Space may be taken by the system or another app. Then quick chat says so in Settings → General: pick another combination there.
• With quick chat on, closing the window does not quit the app: it stays in the tray so the combination keeps working. Quit from the tray icon, or switch quick chat off in Settings → General.
• Linux desktops without a tray (GNOME out of the box) show no tray icon: to get the window back, start OpenGhost again; to quit, switch quick chat off first.
• macOS still asks, but once. "Full access" in OpenGhost is the agent's own rule; the system's prompts for Desktop, Documents, Downloads and for controlling other apps are macOS's, and no app can answer them for you. Allow each once, or give OpenGhost Full Disk Access (Settings → General has the button), and it stops asking.
• macOS forgets after every update. The signature is the app's own, not Apple's, so each new version is a new app to the system and has to be allowed again. Only a paid Apple Developer ID changes that. For the same reason the first launch needs right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).
• Not tried on a real Mac or a real Linux desktop. The Mac and Linux builds are made and opened on build servers, where their signature and start are checked; quick chat, the glass sidebar and the permission prompts there were not tried by hand. If something is off, please open an issue.

Downloads

• Windows: OpenGhost-1.4.5-Setup.exe (installs over the previous version; chats and settings stay)
• macOS: OpenGhost-1.4.5-mac.dmg (Apple silicon and Intel)
• Linux: OpenGhost-1.4.5-linux.tar.gz