Ocelin 0.6.2 Windows preview
Pre-release
Ocelin 0.6.2 brings the pixel pet and live session counts into the optional Windows taskbar strip. Clicking anywhere on the widget opens a compact session panel at the right edge of that monitor.
- See running work, attention signals and app RAM. Hover deliberately over a title to preview recent activity; click to continue in the exact Codex or Claude conversation.
- Close the panel with Escape, its close button or an outside click. Reduced-motion settings disable the slide.
- Choose the dashboard, tray panel and movable, hideable floating tile independently.
- Widget updates release their launch folder correctly, resolve redirected pet images and preserve the installed protocol handler during tests.
- The optional host includes English permission review, correct widget selection and a whole-widget action with a hand cursor.
Download Ocelin-0.6.2-x64-setup.exe for the Windows companion. Ocelin.twidget is adapter 0.6.4. Whole-widget activation requires the Ocelin-patched TaskbarWidgets-0.5.36-English-review.zip, including its MIT license and third-party notices. Widget installation and update permissions remain under your control.
The separate Ocelin.AppTasks.Local.msix is development bridge 0.6.0.2 and requires administrator installation. It publishes experimental native Windows tasks; task storage is confirmed, but native hover-card rendering remains unverified. The installers are unsigned.
The taskbar host uses private Windows APIs. Unload it before replacing its executable and start a fresh Windows shell before loading the replacement. An earlier hot replacement caused one Explorer crash; a controlled shell restart succeeded afterward. This remains an experimental integration.
Validation: 694 core tests, package self-test, packaged Windows smoke, animation-frame measurements, deliberate-hover checks, native URI dispatch, launch-folder rename and protocol-handler preservation, Windows/Linux Node 20/22 CI, 14 host setup scenarios and actual widget validation. The user confirmed the pet, whole-widget panel opening and visible slide on Windows 11 build 26200.9457. The cursor host passed CI run 35219044416 and is installed. A real hover produced the native diagnostic hand cursor: active=1, confirming Windows selected the hand cursor; visual feedback from the user remains pending.