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Halen v0.3.0 — Six plugins, simpler marketplace

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@lukataylo lukataylo released this 25 May 16:42
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v0.3.0
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Six plugins, down from ten. Same features, simpler marketplace.

Plugin lineup

  • Word Replacements (new) replaces Typo Fixer + Personal Style Guide. One plugin, two tabs in its detail view — auto-typos and your preferred terms. Existing settings carry over.
  • Writing Coach (new) replaces Sentiment Guard + Clarity Checker. Tone and clarity findings on the caret indicator from one classifier pass. Existing rules carry over.
  • Email Reply is now part of Snippet Expander. Type ;reply in any mail app or press ⌃⌥E. Default tone picker lives in Snippet Expander's detail view.
  • Tone Profiles moved to Settings → App tone profiles. No longer a marketplace toggle.

Hotkeys

  • Voice Dictation rebinds to ⌃⌥Space. The previous ⌥⌘H collided with macOS's "Hide Others" shortcut, which intercepted the keystroke before Halen could see it.
  • All global hotkeys now route through NSEvent monitors instead of Carbon's RegisterEventHotKey. On macOS 14+ the Carbon path stopped delivering events to handlers for chords that overlapped Cocoa menu shortcuts — silent registration but never fired.

Voice Dictation

Redesigned listening pill — 32×7 dot matrix with per-dot glow, a continuous scanner highlight on the centre row, and a deep-black capsule with a soft cobalt aura. Reduce Motion pins the scanner at mid-position.

Privacy

Halen no longer appears in password fields. Secure text fields (every login form, the macOS lock dialog, sudo prompts wrapped by a GUI helper) are skipped entirely at the AX subscription layer — no caret indicator, no text snapshots, no classifier runs.

Reliability

  • Cancelled tone classifications no longer poison dedup. A superseded paragraph hash is no longer added to the LRU, so the next classification of the same paragraph runs cleanly.
  • Caret indicator appears in Notes, Messages, and Electron apps. The AX-focused-element notification doesn't fire reliably in WebKit-backed editors; a short retry burst (300 / 800 / 1600 ms after focus change) catches it.

Inline underline preview removed

The Halen mark's severity tint carries the same signal without the AX-frame guesswork that made the underline drift off-screen. Preserved on a feature branch for a future per-glyph implementation.

Auto-update

Existing v0.2.0 users get this on the next daily Sparkle check, or via Settings → Check for updates.

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