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@haxllo haxllo released this 15 Sep 09:43
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v2.19.0
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Reliability and Windows UX

Nex 2.19.0 fixes several Windows lifecycle, search, persistence, accessibility, and overlay interaction bugs. The launcher should now behave more predictably when opened over the desktop, reused repeatedly, or driven entirely from the keyboard.

GitHub release title: v2.19.0

What changed

  • Windows overlay lifecycle: Opening and closing Nex over the bare desktop no longer activates the shell in a way that flashes the auto-hide taskbar. Repeated hotkey toggles keep working after the first cycle.
  • Power menu: Flattened power controls and made Back a compact icon-only button with a clear hover state.
  • Settings navigation: Left-side navigation buttons now have consistent sizing, alignment, keyboard behavior, and focus handling.
  • Search selection: Keyboard selection takes priority over a stationary mouse hover, leaving one clearly selected result.

Bug Fixes

  • Filesystem watcher safety: Bounded shutdown waits, validated notification buffers, preserved rename direction, and removed stale or duplicate indexed paths.
  • Clipboard history: Fixed cache cross-contamination, stale results after clearing, unsafe image-buffer reads, and interruption-prone history writes.
  • Search state: Prevented stale results after configuration reloads and stopped unnecessary cache invalidation on unrelated runtime events.
  • Quick Launch: Enforced maximum item counts and filled remaining slots after pinned entries when auto-fill is enabled.
  • Calculator: Corrected unary-minus precedence and rejected oversized expressions.
  • Windows positioning: Corrected physical-pixel centering for settings windows across DPI configurations.
  • Tray and updater: Removed duplicate tray activation and restricted updater script discovery to executable-relative locations.
  • Accessibility: Added search labeling, stable active-result IDs, keyboard settings navigation, focus outlines, and modal focus trapping.
  • Database startup: Serialized schema migrations to prevent concurrent initialization races.

Architecture

  • Watcher resources now shut down through their normal ownership path instead of being intentionally leaked.
  • Search results carry configuration generation metadata so old worker responses are discarded safely.

Commit Log

  • f9f890a release: prepare v2.19.0
  • f569104 merge: release audit fixes
  • 8999750 fix: prioritize keyboard result selection
  • bad151f fix: keep one result row selected
  • b9fbfc9 fix: restore back button hover state
  • 3ae2a00 fix: compact power menu back button
  • 1183138 fix: make power menu back icon-only
  • 90bc049 fix: flatten power menu buttons
  • e556d5d fix: resync overlay focus after reopen
  • f8fd12e fix: hide overlay without shell activation
  • c803498 fix: restore foreground window after overlay hide
  • 9405188 fix: tighten clipboard tiles
  • 51bca5a fix: align settings navigation buttons
  • 53b3fc0 fix: remove obsolete rename event variant
  • 18e2eb7 fix: clean up watcher threads
  • d64ff87 fix: trap unsaved settings dialog focus
  • f9119e5 fix: stabilize result accessibility IDs
  • 8970301 fix: make settings navigation keyboardable
  • dc568cb fix: preserve keyboard focus outlines
  • e8674ed fix: label overlay search input
  • 1a61db7 fix: restrict updater script discovery
  • db54ab7 fix: center settings in physical pixels
  • ac50525 fix: avoid duplicate tray activation
  • eba2918 fix: serialize index schema migrations
  • b84ca45 fix: harden watcher search and clipboard flows

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